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The Festive Season

We are now into what I always think of as the festive season here in Alaska, i.e. the season when it seems we’re having a beer festival about every other week. Yes, we have great festivals other times of the year, but it always seems that we have the greatest concentration of them in this part of the year.

First up was the Annual Kenai River Beer Festival, which took place last Saturday. As this is my local fest and I had a (small) part in getting it off the ground a few years ago, I suppose I’m biased, but I still think it’s one of the best festivals in the state. The weather could have been better this year, but the sporadic light rain couldn’t keep the hardy beer drinkers away. Here are some photos that I snapped at the start of the festival.

Kenai River Brewing had a new twist this year. In order to taste the various vintages of its Winter Warlock Old Ale (which changed each hour and ranged from 2015 all the way back to 2009), you had to find the “Winter Warlock” and get a “magical g …

Source: Drinking on the Last Frontier

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