image courtesy Peaks & Pints

People all over the greater Tacoma area will get to raise their glass to support local business and craft beer in a week-long celebration: Tacoma Beer Week is back. This year’s event will look different due to the ongoing COVID-19 precautions. There are still events going on. They’re just smaller scale. Everything that’s going on is smaller scale, not the packed rooms we used to see. Masks, social distancing, and outdoor seating is also encouraged.

Peaks & Pints craft beer bar, bottle shop and restaurant has lined up four events this year, including a Tacoma Beer Week Opening Day celebration with Tacoma News Tribune Metro News columnist Matt Driscoll and his Blown Deadline IPA that he and the staffs and Peaks & Pints and CaskCades brewed at E9 Brewing in Tacoma’s History Brewery District.

-Ron Swarmer, Peaks & Pints during Tacoma Beer Week 2021

Event Details

Local, regional, national journalism is vital. We need good people to tell stories without fear or favor. The Greater Tacoma Community Foundation believes in this adage too. The organization has set up The South Sound Media Impact Fund to provide support for community-funded journalism at the Tacoma News Tribune, and Peaks & Pints and CaskCades craft beer taprooms and bottle shops are helping fund it too with their collaborative Blown Deadline IPA they brewed at E9 Brewing in Tacoma’s Historic Brewery District. The release parties will be noon to 3 p.m. Aug. 8 at CaskCades in downtown Puyallup and 3-6 p.m. at Peaks & Pints in Tacoma’s Proctor District. E9 Blown Deadline IPA is literally beer journalism.

“CaskCades and Peaks & Pints will donate a portion of Blown Deadline IPA draft pours to the South Sound Media Impact Fund for the duration of the beer’s run at both taprooms,” says Andy Gaine, co-owner of CaskCades who along with his business partner, AJ Wiltrout, have been about community since opening the Puyallup taproom, bottle shop and restaurant in the winter of 2018. “We’ll also take donations for the Fund during our release parties.”