TACOMA PREFUNK FRIDAY, DEC. 15 2017: pFriem Belgian Christmas Ale and China Davis

PREFUNK: Peaks and Pints recommends sipping pFriem Family Brewers’ Belgian Christmas Ale before catching China Davis’ 20th anniversary show at The Swiss tonight. Like the band’s career, Belgian Christmas Ale changes from moment to moment. This big dubbel-based holiday ale (8%) is brewed with German Perle hops, candi sugar, coriander and Belgian ale yeast that changes flavor with every sip. Just as you think it’s a toffee delight it morphs into chocolate-covered orange. Then raisin. And cinnamon pastry. Oh, and dried cherry. And … Peaks and Pints pours this delicious holiday ale from our Western red cedar tap log today.

6-9 P.M. PICTURES WITH SANTA: Mr. and Mrs. Claus will hang at Pacific Brewing and Malting Co. tonight, ready to hear your Christmas wishes and pose for a photo. Disclaimer: Santa will be drinking beer in your pictures. Mrs. Claus is the DD tonight.

9 P.M. CHINA DAVIS: Growing up in Gig Harbor during the 1990s, brothers Ben and Ted Fuller had to make a choice: Following the family’s passion for baseball or following their passion for music. They chose music. In August 1997, with the help of friend Jefferson Angell (Walking Papers, Staticland, The Missionary Position, Post Stardom Depression, Prayer Factory and Sedated Souls) and Scott Mills at his studio, Cottonwood, they recorded their first ep, Entrance. Twenty years later, their talented band, China Davis, will perform an anniversary show at The Swiss tonight. The Fullers took their love of U2, Bob Dylan, Velvet Underground, Bob Marley, John Lennon, Woody Guthrie, The Doors, Van Morrison and The Alarm, and made a mediocre monetary career out of it. They’ll be the first to tell you they’re not famous. They’ll also be to first to tell you they wouldn’t change a thing, especially the group of new songs they’ll unleash tonight. “We’ve come a long way since the summer of ’97,” says Ben Fuller, “and we’re celebrating our place in the Tacoma music community by sharing the night with our friends Pig Snout and some very special guests during our set.”