Alaska
Little-Known Alaska Breweries May Be The Best In The Country
California, Colorado and different states have a repute for brewing nice beer. America’s largest state often goes unmentioned, however Alaska’s high breweries could also be second to none, says Alaska beer author, creator and lecturer Invoice Howell.
“It’s usually been stated of craft beer in Alaska that now we have one of the best beer that nearly nobody has tasted,” says Howell, who has written 4 books, together with Alaska Beer. “The Final Frontier has a very distinctive beer tradition and produces a few of the best beers on the planet, however, if you happen to haven’t truly visited Alaska, you’ve probably by no means heard of most of them.”
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Howell can’t title a single favourite brewery, as a result of he says there 13 co-favorites amongst greater than 50 craft beer producers all through the humungous state. Right here is his baker’s dozen of decisions, together with his feedback.
Anchorage and its environment
Anchorage Brewing Firm. “A brewery with a global repute, proprietor Gabe Fletcher’s creation is a temple to beers fermented and aged within the wooden. The visible attraction alone of the rows and rows of foeders at Anchorage Brewing make it well worth the go to, and that’s earlier than you expertise the really wonderful brews, starting from fresh-brewed IPAs to combined tradition fermented fruit beers. An absolute must-visit for beer-lovers.”
Bleeding Coronary heart Brewery. “Established in 2014 after a extremely profitable Kickstarter marketing campaign, this eccentric brewery was initially positioned on a farm outdoors Palmer, a city about 40 minutes north of Anchorage. As is so usually the case, distinctive beers led to distinctive progress, with the brewery finally relocating into the center of downtown Palmer. The brewery is famend for such choices as Beet IPA (brewed with Alaska Grown beets), Grounds for Divorce Espresso Porter (brewed with regionally roasted espresso) and Valley Trash: Soiled Blonde (an homage to a beloved beer from a defunct native brewery).”
Girdwood Brewing Firm. “A half hour drive south of Anchorage, Girdwood Brewing Firm is positioned within the ski resort city of the identical title. Brewers and an identical twin brothers Rory & Brett Marenco have been brewing award-winning brews in a stunning setting since 2017. Make sure to strive their wonderful No Girl No Cryo New England IPA and Hippy Speedball Oatmeal Espresso Stout.”
King Avenue Brewing Firm. “From its opening in 2011, King Avenue Brewing Firm has been one other instance of remarkable beer fueling distinctive progress. After seven years in its authentic modest location (now occupied by Turnagain Brewing), house owners Shane Kingry and Dana Walukiewicz relocated to a custom-built brewery subsequent to Anchorage Brewing Firm. Canned variations of their widespread brews could be discovered on the market in liquor shops all throughout Alaska.”
Midnight Solar Brewing Firm. “The oldest brewery in Anchorage and the second oldest brewery in Alaska, Midnight Solar has developed a well-deserved repute for excellence, reaching properly past the state borders. Whereas it produces beers in many various kinds, MSBC might be most well-known for its large, barrel-aged brews like Arctic Satan Barley Wine and Berserker Imperial Stout. It additionally provides wonderful meals in The Loft, its upstairs faucet room.”
Fairbanks and the Inside
Black Spruce Brewing Firm. “A relative newcomer to the Alaska beer scene, Black Spruce Brewing has made fairly a splash since opening in 2018. On the 2022 Alaska Craft Brew and Barley Wine Competition, Black Spruce’s Heaven Hill Barrel-Aged Reginald Van Horn Barley Wine took house the gold medal, beating out many better-known and older breweries. Since then, ‘the little brewery that might’ in Fairbanks has solely gotten higher.”
Denali Brewing Firm. “From extraordinarily humble beginnings in 2009 as a tiny brewpub, Denali Brewing Firm has grown into the second-largest brewery in Alaska. Situated within the small city of Talkeetna, about 100 miles north of Anchorage, Denali was one of many first breweries within the state to start canning. Its beers are extensively obtainable, and it additionally operates a meadery and a distillery.”
HooDoo Brewing Firm. “When it opened its doorways on Halloween 2012, HooDoo Brewing turned the primary brewery to function in Fairbanks since World Conflict II. Since then, proprietor Bobby Wilken has led the cost to convey nice craft beer to Alaska’s second-largest metropolis. HooDoo has a distinctly European aptitude: a stunning outside beer backyard, a former German hearth truck that’s used to move beer to festivals and distinctive flagship brews German Kolsch, Bavarian Weissbier and German Helles.”
Kenai Peninsula
St. Elias Brewing Firm. “When it opened in Could 2008, St. Elias Brewing was the one brewpub on the Kenai Peninsula. Its specialty is connoisseur pizzas paired with wonderful brews produced by proprietor/brewer Zach Henry. Henry has proven an admirable willingness to experiment through the years, producing eclectic brews, together with a Inventory Ale (sturdy, extremely hopped and barrel-aged with Brettanomyces for greater than a 12 months) and a Burton Ale (a virtually extinct fashion from Britain). His Czech Pilsner is one of the best within the state.”
Homer Brewing Firm. “When it opened in September 1996, Homer Brewing Firm was the one manufacturing brewery within the state outdoors of Anchorage and Juneau. The imaginative and prescient, in accordance with Karen Berger, one among three founders, was ‘a want to reside in Homer, create an revenue and the love of beer.’ Homer Brewing solely distributes its nation ales to faucets within the native space, guaranteeing that flagship brews like Damaged Birch Bitter and Pink Knot Scottish are all the time completely contemporary.”
Kenai River Brewing Firm. “When it opened in 2006, Kenai River Brewing in Soldotna was one of many first breweries within the state to benefit from a change in state regulation permitting taproom gross sales. Since then, KRBC’s excellent ales have been embraced by the local people and elsewhere within the state, because of a sturdy canning operation. KRBC is positioned in a custom-built facility in downtown close to its namesake, the Kenai River. It has a stunning faucet room, serving scrumptious meals. There are often a dozen or so brews on faucet, together with wonderful Sunken Isle, an English-style IPA, and Skilak Scottish Ale.”
Southeast Alaska
Alaskan Brewing Firm. “The granddaddy of all craft breweries within the state, Juneau’s Alaskan Brewing Firm has led the best way since its founding in 1986 by Geoff and Marcy Larson. Brewing extra beer than all the opposite breweries within the state mixed, Alaskan’s merchandise are bought far past the Final Frontier. Nevertheless, solely locals get the chance to style the beers in Alaskan’s Tough Draft Collection — limited-release beers that the brewery makes use of to check and refine recipes.”
Haines Brewing Firm. “With its brews obtainable virtually completely within the small coastal city of the identical title, Haines Brewing Firm epitomizes the ‘native is greatest’ method of many craft breweries in Alaska. Based in 1999 by Paul Wheeler and Jeanne Kitayanna, Haines Brewing has earned a repute, amongst Alaskan beer aficionados, of a hidden gem. Captain Cook dinner’s Spruce Tip Ale is taken into account by many to be the head of this uniquely Alaskan fashion, whereas Black Fang Imperial Stout is a perennial favourite.”
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A new report compiled by the Alaska Sustainable Fisheries Trust (ASFT) in Sitka finds that Southeast Alaska communities are losing access to fisheries, but also identifies opportunities for implementing new ways to restore such access for the region.
“Based on what we heard from the dozens of community members who participated in our survey, it is clear that Southeast’s communities, particularly Indigenous communities, are losing access to fisheries and their future access remains uncertain,” said Linda Behnken, ASFT board president. “However, it is also clear that we have some real opportunities when it comes to designing and implementing new tools to help restore this access and ensure that local needs are being factored into larger discussions and decisions concerning Southeast’s economy.”
The report, released June 18, compiles findings of a regional survey ASFT distributed to area residents this spring in collaboration with the Sustainable Southeast Partnership (SSP) — proposing ways to address issues. The report was funded by the Southeast Conference through the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Southeast Alaska Sustainability Strategy initiative.
ASFT said the goal is to assist local communities by providing data and information for future dialogues and community development planning, increasing awareness and encouraging more funds for fishery access-related projects. Participating communities included Angoon, Craig, Haines, Kake, Ketchikan, Klawock, Klukwan, Juneau, Sitka, Wrangell, and Yakutat.
Responses from these communities universally identified the fisheries as a crucial element of Southeast Alaska’s culture and economy moving forward. Respondents expressed concern about their ability to access and have a sustainable livelihood from local fisheries through traditional harvesting, commercial or recreational fishing.
Respondents’ key concerns included the changing climate and environment of Southeast Alaska and a sense of unpredictability for the future of marine resources. They expressed a lack of confidence that current scientific approaches to fishery management will be adequate in light of significant changes affecting the region and its resources due to climate change.
The report also discussed existing systems of governance that challenge access to fishery resources, challenges with limited access management at the state and federal levels and loss of community infrastructure such as processors, fish buyers, cold storage, marine services and/or transportation often initiated with the trend in outmigration of fishery access in remote communities.
Many participating area residents said the utmost priority is protection and perpetuation of a traditional way of life, with commercial fishing considered secondary, as a tool to bridge the traditional and cash economies.
They discussed the rapid growth of tourism in Southeast Alaska as something feeding competition and tensions between local-commercial and traditional-use harvesters and non-local harvesters in the sportfish sector.
The report included recommendations for building more equitable and accessible fisheries in Southeast Alaska, including incorporating climate change variability and unpredictability into fishery management tools to facilitate fishery access and to ensure that other industries, including tourism and mariculture, do not further limit fishery access.
Recommendations also included establishing regional entities to hold quota/permits (such as regional Community Quota Entities and regional fisheries trusts) and more investment in community infrastructure.
Behnken said that ASFT was grateful to everyone who shared their thoughts on this complex topic.
“We hope that this report will uplift their voices and be a chance for the public, policy makers, and others to better understand some of the challenges that many Southeast residents are facing so that we can collectively find solutions and build a resilient and vibrant future for Southeast’s fisheries and communities,” she said.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) – Summer weather continues to build in across the state, as a ridge is greatly influencing the weather across Mainland Alaska. Temperatures have been warming into the 70s and 80s through the Interior, while Southcentral has seen highs in the 60s and the 70s. This stretch of warm weather will remain through the week, accompanied by possibly thunderstorm development.
While hot and dry conditions have been building, the Aleutians are dealing with wet and breezy weather. This comes as a low near the Aleutians continues to lift to the north. Expect widespread rain through parts of this region, with the heaviest rain near the Pribilof Islands. Winds will gust anywhere from 30 to 65 mph. As the rain pushes to the northeast, it will run into ridging and quickly taper off into Wednesday. Some light rain showers look possible through parts of Southwest Alaska tomorrow morning, before the rain comes to an end.
Outside of the Aleutians and areas with thunderstorm formation, Alaska will remain on the drier side this week. While the ridge isn’t strong enough to cap thunderstorm development, it will prevent its widespread activity. It’s likely isolated to scattered storms will persist through the Interior and in Southcentral Alaska. A quick reminder that burn permits have been suspended in the Mat-Su Valley and Fairbanks due to the hot and dry conditions.
Any storms across Southcentral today will primarily impact western parts of the Matanuska Valley, the foothills of the Talkeetna Mountains and into the Copper River Basin. Storm motion will be to the north, so Anchorage and surrounding locations will largely stay dry. A rogue thunderstorm can’t be ruled out for the Kenai, but any precipitation will come in the form of spotty to isolated morning showers.
This hot and dry weather pattern continues through the end of June. Here in Southcentral, the weekend is once again shaping up to warm into the 70s.
Have a wonderful and safe Tuesday!
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) – Summer is in full force across Alaska, and for many Alaskans, the past two weeks feel more like summer than most of 2023.
Anchorage reached 75° and above three times this month. We’ve only seen three days over 75° in June six times in recorded history. The overall average temperature for June is currently only about half of a degree above what is normal but is about 2 degrees above June to date of 2023. This month’s rainfall is also significantly lower than what most of Anchorage experienced last June. June of 2023 brought 17 days with measurable precipitation, this year, we’ve seen just four days with rain.
The dry stretch will continue with temperatures holding slightly above average for most of Southcentral this week. Be prepared for isolated thunderstorms near the Alaska Range and in the Copper River Basin on Tuesday.
The number of active wildfires in the state is up to 115 as of Monday evening, 21 of those are new in the past 24 hours. More than 5,000 lightning strikes were recorded in Alaska on Monday, following more than 6,000 on Sunday.
With high fire danger continuing, use extra caution to keep from adding any additional human-caused fires.
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