On Thursday, Kelly and I headed down to Midnight Sun Brewing Company in Southern Anchorage to start checking out the local beer scene. Midnight Sun offers free tours on Thursdays, and growler fills starting at $9. We had dinner and some 6oz taster pours before the tour. With beer names like Kodiak Brown Ale, Sockeye Red IPA, Arctic Rhino Coffee Porter and Panty Peeler Tripel, We knew we were going to enjoy our outing. The food was decent and the beers were delicious. We especially enjoyed the special release Black Light Cream Ale and the Pride - a beer with
Brettanomyces yeast added to sour the beer - one of our favorite styles. I got my $9 growler of Black Light and we waited for the tour to start.
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| Kelly enjoying Pride |
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| About to sample some Sockeye Red |
Our tour guide gave us samples of unfinished beer. We got to try Kyoto, which is part of a limited release series designed to incorporate brewing styles and ingredients from all over the world. Kyoto is brewed with rice and seaweed. Unlike those corporate brews, the rice actually added a nice nutty flavor to the beer. The seaweed wasn't very present aside from making the beer super clear.
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| You can guess where the beer comes out |
The current location for Midnight Sun is their second. They used to share a building with
Knight's Taxidermy, the shop featured on
Mounted in Alaska. As a parting gift, Knights made Midnight Sun an Alaskan Tap Handle.
Hi Jay!
ReplyDeleteUh. Sweet posts. But a week between items? What the hell? I mean....you're not working yet, right? You should be blogging daily. Sheesh. Get some content up on this site already.
Just kidding, of course. Glad to see you guys are getting out up there. Hope all is well. Looking forward to future posts.
Aren't you glad I started following you?
Brian
I knew I should've set it up to preview comments first. Don't worry Bri, I have plenty of material, like that time that Kelly failed her written driver's test to get an Alaska license, or when I didn't have the right screws to put on a front license plate, but then I got the right screws and put it on.
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