Tacoma Beer Week 2025 Gose With The Flow

*This gose brewed by Silver City Brewery headlines six events during Tacoma Beer Week 2025, including its release party March 1 at Peaks & Pints.*

Tacoma Beer Week 2025 Gose With The Flow

There in the tiny, tranquil breakers, almost waveless, pint-sized children frolicked in Commencement Bay. They scooped dark mud, tossed it, wrestled, and held each other’s adolescent heads underwater. One coughed and sputtered from a mouthful. Their mothers lazed, reclining on blankets at Owen Beach at Point Defiance Park, sunning, unconcerned. And in the near distance, a gaggle of smiling dads shared the summer afternoon on their roaring grown-up toys, swerving, zooming, and making waves. Picnics, games, the obligatory barbecues, togetherness — an idyllic family day on Commencement Bay, right there … in what was once a highly polluted body of water. Today, Commencement Bay is one of the brightest spots of hope for environmental restoration — thanks to the work of Communities for a Healthy Bay or CHB. On March 1, the opening day of Tacoma Beer Week 2025, CHB and a local institution that lives and dies by clean water, Silver City Brewery in Bremerton, join forces with South Sound Surfrider for a community beach cleanup near Old Town Tacoma, followed by the Gose With The Flow sour beer collaboration release party at Peaks & Pints in Tacoma’s Proctor District.

*Communities for a Healthy Bay helped brew Gose With The Flow at Silver City Brewery in Bremerton. Photo courtesy of Facebook*

Communities for a Healthy Bay goes with the flow

For more than 30 years, Communities for a Healthy Bay—a 501(c)(3) nonprofit based in Tacoma—has mobilized others to advocate for protecting our waterways. The environmental organization patrols the waters to look for pollutants, advocates for reducing fossil fuel development in the Tacoma Tideflats and organizes environmental justice camps for girls and LGBTQ+ youth ages 11-17.

Following the success of last year’s Tacoma Beer Week community clean-up sessions, this year’s festivities include a beach clean-up at the Les Davis Pier and Jack Hyde Park near Old Town Tacoma from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Saturday, March 1. A post-clean-up celebration will follow at Peaks & Pints, including tapping a sour beer collaboration between CHB and Silver City and other Silver City beers.

The CBH team traveled to Bremerton to brew Gose With The Flow, a refreshing, tart, and subtly herbal sour crafted with regionally renowned lemon balm and San Juan Island sea salt, echoing the crisp essence of Puget Sound. The crushable gose with bright citrus notes and a whisper of salinity will be a worthy reward after several hours of bagging rubber ducks, metal detectors snapped in two, Doritos, one flip-flop with a bottle opener in the sole, 12 buried syringes, broken Snapple bottles, decapitated teddy bear, and rude message in a bottle, to name a few discarded items. This limited-release beer reflects the importance of protecting the South Puget Sound’s waters and the rich biodiversity they support.

“Partnerships like this help us expand our impact in meaningful and creative ways,” says Ayla Janukajtis, CHB’s Communications director. “By working with Silver City Brewery, we’re able to reach new audiences and raise awareness about the importance of protecting our waterways. Every sip of this beer is a step toward a cleaner Puget Sound.”

The Silver City Brewery Gose With The Flow, brewed with Communities for a Healthy Bay, will be released Saturday, March 1, at Peaks & Pints, kicking off Tacoma Beer Week 2025. Photo courtesy of Facebook

Silver City Brewery goes with the flow

“Water is the foundation of every beer we brew, and protecting it is a mission we proudly stand behind,” states Silver City Brewery in a media release. “This collaboration is a testament to that commitment, a celebration of clean water, clean beer, and the communities that make it all possible.”

The Silver City tanks are filled with pure, high-quality drinking water from Bremerton’s protected watersheds, including the Union River Watershed and Casad Reservoir. “These sources, surrounded by forests and carefully managed to ensure sustainability, provide the pristine water that helps define the character of their beer,” adds Janukajtis. “These vital water sources, as with all in the South Sound, require protection to remain clean and healthy for generations. By partnering with CHB, Silver City Brewery is helping raise awareness about the crucial role water plays in both our environment and our everyday lives. Clean water doesn’t just sustain marine life—it also fuels our communities, our industries, and the craft beer we love.”

Silver City adds, “Join us in raising a pint to this cause because when we protect our waters, we’re brewing a better future for everyone.”

Silver City has been brewing for the future since September 1996 when restaurateur brothers Steve and Scott Houmes added craft beer to their lives when they teamed up with brewmaster “Big Daddy” Don Spencer and opened the brewery in Silverdale, Washington. The Houmes’ mission was to create a community-oriented restaurant and craft brewery. In 2008, the Houmes began distributing their beer around the Puget Sound. In May of 2010, the brothers moved their brewery operations to a new 7,600-square-foot production facility and taproom in Bremerton, which Scott Houmes runs. Last year, after turning 27, making it Bremerton’s oldest brewery, Silver City launched a dynamic rebrand of its classic lineup and new offerings for 2024. The new brand design reflected the brewery’s enduring values of quality, craft, community, and the Northwest aesthetic.

South Sound Surfrider encourages everyone to bring their bucket and gloves for the cleanup, but they will have some spares to share. The organization fosters boots or appropriate footwear and encourages hydration in a reusable container. Photo courtesy of Facebook

South Sound Surfrider goes with the flow

The Saturday, March 1 Tacoma Beer Week beach cleanup collaboration with Communities for a Healthy Bay and Silver City Brewery includes the South Sound Surfrider, one of five Washington state chapters of the Surfrider Foundation, a network of coastal defenders with chapters worldwide. Surfrider is dedicated to protecting the world’s oceans, waves, and beaches. The South Sound chapter in Tacoma cleans beaches, tests water, and advocates for plastic pollution laws. Litter impacts marine coasts. If you’ve ever been to a beach, you’ve no doubt spotted some empty food containers, broken glass, plastic, cigarette butts or other discarded junk. If you’re passionate about reducing coastal and ocean litter, join this terrific trifecta of tidal trash collectors during the opening day of Tacoma Beer Week.

Peaks & Pints goes with the flow

After the Saturday afternoon beach clean-up, go with the flow to Peaks & Pints for the Silver City and Communities for a Healthy Bay unique ocean-inspired sour beer Gose With The Flow release party from 2-4 p.m. In addition to the limited beer release and other Silver City beers on tap, teams from Silver City, CHB, and South Sound Surfriders, as well as participating community members, will hose off their plankton and sand-covered bodies, grab a gose and a bar stool at Peaks & Pints, and recap their beach clean-up experiences with beer drinkers while sweet swag is raffled off. A portion of draft proceeds will go toward keeping Tacoma’s waters clean and healthy.

Since opening on Nov. 1, 2016, Peaks & Pints craft beer and cider bar, bottle shop, and restaurant has taken its outdoors motif seriously, donating thousands of dollars to community-minded outdoor recreational and environmental organizations. The Tacoma Proctor District restaurant is also a member of the South Sound Surfrider. Peaks & Pints’ 2025 Tacoma Beer Week events have fundraising elements.

“This collaboration highlights the vital role clean water plays in brewing and environmental stewardship and the impacts possible when businesses and nonprofits partner for a shared vision,” adds Janukajtis. “A portion of proceeds from the launch of this beer will directly support CHB’s mission to protect and restore South Sound waterways.

*The Grit & Grain Podcast will discuss the Tacoma Beer Week collaboration with Communities for a Healthy Bay and Silver City Brewery at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 19, at Peaks & Pints in Tacoma.*

Grit & Grain Podcast launches the flow

The Grit & Grain Podcast will sit with the Communities for a Healthy Bay folks and Silver City Brewery owner Scott Houmes to discuss the Tacoma Beer Week collaboration at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 19, in the Peaks & Pints Events Room. All are welcome to join us for the hour-taping. For the uninitiated, beer gurus Matt McLaren (Orcas Distributing), Ron Swarner (Peaks & Pints), and Bethany Carlsen (The Funk Busters) explore and celebrate the craft beer industry, community, and history in Tacoma, Washington, and surrounding Pacific Northwest region, with assistance from opinionated beer industry insiders recording at Peaks & Pints on Wednesday afternoons. Engineered by Doug Mackey of Channel 253, you can hear the three India Pale Yale graduates and featured guests every Friday as they think and drink in a room completely devoid of oxygen so as not to degrade the beer.

Events: Drink for a good cause!

Tacoma Beer Week Beach Cleanup with CNB, Silver City & South Sound Surfrider

11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Saturday, March 1, Les Davis Pier, 3427 Ruston Way, Tacoma

Volunteers will help remove trash and debris from the waterfront.

Tacoma Beer Week Gose With The Flow Release Party

2-4 p.m. Saturday, March 1, Peaks & Pints, 3816 N. 26th St., Basecamp Proctor, Tacoma

Be among the first to try this exclusive collaboration sour between Communities For A Healthy Bay and Silver City Brewery. Expect good company, raffle prizes, and sandwich specials crafted to pair perfectly with the beer. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to CHB’s work to keep our waterways clean and healthy.

Tacoma Beer Week Events with Communities For A Healthy Bay

After the opening day celebration at Peaks & Pints, Communities For A Healthy Bay will spread their clean words at four other Tacoma Beer Week events through March 6, for more details, visit the Communities For A Healthy Bay website.