Beer Infinity Beer, Brewing & Beyond
| Hello, and Happy New Year to you all. I thought I’d take the opportunity, here at the end of one year and the start of another, to depart a bit from my standard format of news and beer reviews for a few meditations on the current state of play in Alaska’s craft beer scene, as well as some thoughts on the coming year.
Looking back at 2015, you’d have to say that by any objective measure, it was a great year for craft brewing in Alaska. We had a total of five new breweries open: Resolution Brewing, Odd Man Rush Brewing, Icy Strait Brewing, Gakona Brewing, and Bearpaw River Brewing. That’s a huge number, something like a 20% increase in the number of breweries in the state. We also saw some well-established breweries move into new, custom-built locations. Gabe Fletcher moved out of Gary Klopfer’s basement into Anchorage Brewing‘s gorgeous new brewery. Paul Wheeler of Haines Brewing departed his tiny Dalton City location for an improved and expanded new home on Haines’ Main Street, one with … |
Source: Drinking on the Last Frontier
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