Beer Infinity Beer, Brewing & Beyond
| This weekend is the unofficial start of summer, and judging by the traffic I saw yesterday here on the Kenai, I’d say a lot of folks in Anchorage got an early start on it. That’s good news for all our local breweries and brewpubs, as more visitors mean more demand for their beers. Of course it also means they have to serve fruit-laced brews like Island Girl and Kumquat Kolsch Ale, so it’s not all beer and skittles as our British friends would say. Still, it’s good to see tourist flocking in to enjoy our fine local beers.
And let’s face it, our local brewers can use all the business they can get, to help pay the heavy taxes the state of Alaska imposes on them. In case you don’t know, Alaska has the second highest state beer taxes in the nation. We were #1 for the longest time, until a couple of years ago when Tennessee jacked theirs up significantly and finally passed us. Here’s a graphic from the Tax Foundation which shows just how big a bite of state government (you know, those buffoo … |
Source: Drinking on the Last Frontier
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