Beer Infinity Beer, Brewing & Beyond
| So no blog last week, but that was because I was on my second trip to Southeast Alaska in about a month. The stops this time were Juneau and Sitka. Elaine and I had visited Juneau several years ago, but this was our first trip to Sitka. The purpose of the trip was research for Volume III of Beer on the Last Frontier: The Craft Breweries of Alaska, which will cover Southeast Alaska. We didn’t get to spend a ton of time in either town, but we were there long enough to tour both Alaskan Brewing Company in Juneau and Baranof Island Brewing Company in Sitka.
We’d toured Alaskan Brewing on our previous visit to Juneau in 2007, but the brewery has grown considerably since then, and more expansion is underway. I’ve toured plenty of big breweries Outside, but it seemed really strange to be walking through such a big operation (about 145,000 barrels produced last year) in Alaska. There expansion seems to be proceeding on schedule, and will provide them with some much needed space to expand the … |
Source: Drinking on the Last Frontier
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