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Episode 163: GABF Adventures with Bryan and Ron

  • October 17, 2025
  • Tagged as: Great American Beer Festival
The Great American Beer Festival wrapped up last weekend, and Ron attended for the second time with Peaks & Pints regular, Grit & Grain listener, and travel buddy, Bryan Johnson. Their four-day epic adventure had...

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Ron Swarner
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Episode 162: Michael Perozzo, Part 3

  • October 10, 2025
  • Tagged as: Vice Beer
Our best buddies at Vice Beer just celebrated their 3-year anniversary, so we figured it would be the perfect time to get owner, operator, and North Bank beer ambassador Michael Perozzo back on the mic...

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Ron Swarner
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Episode 161: Hop Selection Connection

  • October 3, 2025
  • Tagged as: hop selection, Lucky Envelope Brewing, Yakima hops
Back again with another hoppy episode this week! This time, we wanted to change it up and give you all a peek behind the curtain at a yearly industry tradition. During hop harvest season, brewers...

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Ron Swarner
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Episode 160: Pumpkin Spice and Everything Nice

  • September 26, 2025
  • Tagged as: pumpkin beer
Nestled quietly in the margins of Oktoberfest and fresh hop season, pumpkin beers lay waiting to provide a reprieve from the punchy wet hopped IPAs and robust Marzen lagers. This week, we quickly sample 15...

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Ron Swarner
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Episode 159: Mansions and Museums in the Mecca of Hops

  • September 12, 2025
  • Tagged as: Ezra Meeker, Meeker Mansion, Puyallup Historical Society, Puyallup hops
This is super special! We all know Yakima is known for its incredible hop agriculture, but what many folks may not know is that the modern hop industry has its roots a little closer to...

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Ron Swarner
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Episode 158: Homebrew Competition Season!

  • September 5, 2025
  • Tagged as: All-American Homebrew Competition, Browns Point Homebrew Club, homebrew, Lights Out!, Peninsula Fermentation Society
That’s right! Besides being fresh hop season, pumpkin season, and festbier season, it’s also homebrew competition season. We’re lucky to be joined this week by Dustin Striplin from the Browns Point Homebrew Club to talk...

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Ron Swarner
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Episode 157: Fresh Hop Season Preview

  • August 22, 2025
  • Tagged as: fresh hop beer, fresh hop podcast, fresh hops
We are just about a week away from the most wonderful time of the year for Pacific Northwest beer nerds — fresh hop season!  The chaotic, beautiful, and fleeting annual period where hops are plucked...

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Ron Swarner
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Episode 156: Live from Brew Five Three Beer and Music Festival!

  • August 15, 2025
  • Tagged as: Brew Five Three, Gini Sommer, Tacoma arts Live
It’s that time of year again! Brew Five Three Beer & Music Festival, Tacoma’s biggest beer taster-glass gathering, kicked off in a new location this year, the historic Armory building, and we were lucky enough...

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Ron Swarner
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Episode 155: German Purity Law (wink wink) with Four Generals Brewing

  • August 8, 2025
  • Tagged as: Four Generals Brewing, German beer, Germany, Renton
Nestled in the small downtown area of Renton, Wash., a sleeping giant of a brewery is starting to make giant waves. We are joined by the family-owned and operated Four Generals Brewing. Brewer Ross, parents...

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Ron Swarner
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Episode 154: Hop Growers and Grain Makers with Haas Farm and LINC Malt, Part 2

  • August 1, 2025
  • Tagged as: Haas Farms, hops, LINC Malt, malt
We’re back with part 2 of our raw ingredients special, featuring Rikki Welz from Haas Farms and Brian Estes from LINC Malt. With Grainmaker only one week away, we figured it would be a great...

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