Alaska Brews

Alaska loves their local brews, both coffee and beer.

We've discovered and tasted several kinds of local beer - Alaskan Brewery (Juneau), Kissik Brewery (Kenai), Homer Brewing Company (Homer), and tonight Glacier Brewing Company (Anchorage). All have been quite delicious. I think their long winters gives them plenty of time for brew experimentation (and extra reason to drink their local favorites).

7/12/08 addendum - we've also added Mooses Tooth Brewery and Sleeping Lady Brew Pub to our local brew drinking. Mooses Tooth was too "hoppy" for us, but Sleeping Lady was pretty good.

Alaskan also love their coffee. Many places advertise "espresso" instead of coffee, and the big trent on the Kenai peninsula was drive through independent coffee shops, that were basically 10'x10' houses, without any sit-down or walk-up service, and just served drive-through customers. Homer also had several delicious local bakeries/coffee shops that we enjoyed. A few Starbucks have been seen (esp in Anchorage), but almost everything has been an independent coffee house. Again, long winters = extra need for coffee. Long summer days = extra need for coffee.