Short blog this time, as the weather is too nice to spend much time at a keyboard! The assault on the Kenai Peninsula continues, with something like 40,000 fish seekers from all around Alaska descending on us for the “personal use” fishery. It’s a pretty amazing sight, sort of like watching a slow-motion train wreck taking place in your front yard: it’s horrible, yet you find it very difficult to look away…
While the hordes are down here trying to stock their freezers, they are also hitting our local breweries hard. Good luck trying to find a parking spot at St. Elias or Kenai River tonight! In case you’ve missed it, there’s a show on the Esquire Network call Brew Dogs. It focuses on the guys behind the Scottish brewery BrewDog, James Watt and Martin Dickie, visiting craft breweries around the US and brewing beer in outlandish ways (like in the back of a pickup will doing laps around a NASCAR track). The show has a certain amount of silliness, but overall it’s pretty good. The secon … |
Source: Drinking on the Last Frontier
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