Bit behind on the blogging (what else is new..), but I’ve got a lot of great beer stuff to write about since my last blog three weeks ago.
On Thursday, 7 August, I rolled up to Anchorage to help host the Beer Camps Across America event at Humpy’s Alaskan Alehouse, sponsored by Sierra Nevada Brewing and their distributors here in Alaska, K & L Distributing. The event was a sell-out, with a hundred people paying $20 to sample all twelve of the beers in three flights of four 3 oz. samples. There was a pretty good turnout of beer writers as well. Besides yours truly, Dr. Fermento and newcomer to Alaska Kristi Trimmer were also in attendance. I included a graphic describing the beers in my last blog and they were uniformly excellent, but let me mention a couple of them that I thought were absolutely outstanding. Torpedo Pilsner (5.2% ABV, 45 IBUs, brewed with Firestone Walker) – a pilsner infused with New Zealand hops using Sierra Nevada‘s hop torpedo technology, this brew was a clean, crisp … |
Source: Drinking on the Last Frontier
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