In Anchorage, Hoppy visited Anchorage Brewing. His visit there last year can be seen here. This year he spent time in their outdoor seating area and on the rooftop, both of which he did not see on his last visit.
While there, he imbibed a No Answer Imperial Stout/Black Barleywine Blend which was double and triple cooled for 20 months in a blend of 15 year Calumet Farms, Willett, Willett Rye and Buffalo Trace bourbon barrels. It was 15% ABV.
He also drank a No Salvation Saison with Brettanomyces fermented in oak foeders with two proprietary strins of Brettanomyces and Saison yeast. Dry hopped with Strata and Mosaic Hops. This was 6.5% ABV.
Pictures follow.
Draft BoardNo Answer Imperial Stout/Black Barleywine BlendRooftop ViewRooftopRooftopCoolship Inside Rooftop Building (reflection off of window)Coolship DefinitionOutdoor Seating View From AboveHeading DownstairsOutside Seating/FirepitSeatingGuests Enjoying OutdoorsOutdoor DecorOutdoor Decor/SeatingOutdoor Decor
The next stop for Hoppy was at a brewery rated as one of the best in the world, Anchorage Brewing. Gabe Fletcher, an owner and the head brewer, is noted for his use of Brettanomyces, which is a wild yeast, often referred to as Brett. It adds what is described as a somewhat sour, funky taste to beer. After sampling the house brews, Hoppy decided to partake of a Lilith’s Brethren Hazy Double IPA at 8.4% ABV and a Gutted Belgian Dark Strong Ale at 10% ABV.
ExteriorBarDraft ListBreweryDecor and Foeders used for SeatingSeating Inside FoederFoeder with Chandelier & SeatingBrewery & SeatingFoederFoeder & TankBrewery TanksSeating in BreweryPizza OvenTeku of Lilith’s BrethrenTribute to Orval, the First Brett Beer imported to AmericaBarrel Storage AreaOutdoor SeatingBrewery Dog
Hoppy’s last brewery visit in Anchorage was at 49th State Brewing. This location opened in 2016, although their original location opened in Healy, Alaska (Denali National Park location) in 2010. Their menu is filled with locally and sustainably sourced Alaskan ingredients.
Hoppy enjoyed quaffing a Solstice IPA at 7% ABV; 72 IBU.
EntranceSalmon leading the Way to 49th State BrewingBrewery & 1st Floor Seating2nd Floor Seating and Wall Decor2nd Floor SeatingWall Decor 2nd Floor DeckFlowers on DeckCook Inlet View from DeckSeating & Anchorage View from Deck1st Floor SeatingTap and Bar AreaBarBreweryTableBar in Theater AreaTheater RoomRestroom Wall Decor
Hoppy’s fifth brewery visit in Anchorage was at King Street Brewing. They began in October, 2011 and expanded into a newly built facility in July of 2018. It is a three story 21,000 square foot establishment with the brewery located on the first floor. There is seating available on all three floors as well as on a deck on the third floor. While there, Hoppy enjoyed a King Street IPA with 6% ABV and 60 IBU.
Moose Sighted on Way to Brewery. Not an UncommonSight in Anchorage.King Street BrewingSignageBar AreaDraft List & TapsSeating AreaBreweryBrewerySeating with Barrel StorageThird Floor SeatingSeatingDeck SeatingView from King Street Brewing
Hoppy’s next stop was at Midnight Sun Brewing where he quaffed a Pleasure Town IPA clocking in at 6.3% ABV and 61 IBU. In the past he has also enjoyed their Sockeye Red IPA, 5.7% ABV, 70 IBU and Pany Peeler Belgian Tripel, 8.5% ABV, 15 IBU. They are also well known for their barrel-aged stouts and barley wines.
LogoBrewery & PubChandelier with Wall Art in BackgroundWall ArtSeating AreaSeating & Wall ArtSeating & BarWall ArtDraft List & TapsRooftop SeatingWall ArtSeating Area– See Hoppy on the Cap!Sticker Area – Find HoppyOutdoor Seating
Hoppy is off on another beer adventure! This time it includes Anchorage, Alaska and Tacoma, Washington. The first stop in Anchorage was at Broken Tooth Brewing at Moose’s Tooth Pub and Pizzeria. The brewery was originally named Moose’s Tooth, as well, but the name was changed for business purposes. The pizzeria was ranked as the third best pizzeria in the United States in 2015. (The entity also operates Bear Tooth Theartrepub and Bear Tooth Grill in Anchorage.) Broken Tooth, Moose’s Tooth and Bear Tooth are all peaks in the Denali National Park of the Alaska Range. Hoppy quaffed a YellowEye P.A. (an IPA) with a 7.8% ABV and 74 IBU.
Moose’s Tooth Pub & PizzeriaLogoFlowers by EntranceBar/Lounge AreaBarDraft ListNeon with Original Brewery Name
Anchorage’s first brewpub since prohibition, Midnight Sun opened in 1995, five years after the first brewpub in Indianapolis, Broad Ripple Brewpub. Bert Grant’s Yakima Brewing & Malting Co. in Yakima, Washington, better known as Grant’s Brewery Pub, was the first brewpub to open in the U.S., since prohibition, in 1982. (I consider this to be the seminal moment in the craft beer revolution.) It was followed the next day, by the opening of Red Hook Brewing’s Pub in Seattle. With the availability of these beers and those from other microbreweries, some bars in Anchorage began carrying them in the 1980s. One such place was Mr. Whitekeys’ Fly By Night Club which appeared to have a private airplane flying into its roof. They would often have Grant’s Scottish Ale available and their menu stated that there would be a fifty cent tax imposed on the purchase of any mega brewery beer, showing their support of the fledgling microbrew industry.
Hoppy’s second brewery visit in Anchorage was at the Glacier Brewhouse. They began brewing in 1996 and all of their brews are brewed in house. Hoppy drank a flight of five different IPAs. These were as follows: Cask Conditioned IPA 6.35% ABV, 60 IBU; India Pale Ale 6.35% ABV, 55 IBU; Red Rye IPA 7.14% ABV, 65 IBU; Blackberry IPA 7.38% ABV, 58 IBU and Tangerine IPA 4.4% ABV 40 IBU.
Entrance to Glacier BrewhouseEntrance DisplayRestaurant Seating Areas and BarSeating Area by FireplaceBar AreaDraft ListIPA Sampler FlightBreweryWall DecorView from Back of Brewhouse
Indiana Breweries Step Up to Provide Economic Assistance to the Food and Alcohol Industry Workers
Social Distance Pale Ale, brewed at Centerpoint Brewing in Indianapolis, has been released! It is 40 IBU and 5.5% ABV, and 100% of its proceeds will go to benefit service workers in the community. Information regarding the non-profit organization that was formed to support these workers, and those involved in the production of the beer, is included in the press release below:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Indy Independent Relief Fund will use dedicated beer sales to provide for laid off employees
Indianapolis, March 20, 2020: Members of the Indianapolis craft beer industry have come together to form the Indy Independent Relief Fund (IIRF), a registered non-profit organization designed to generate and disperse funds and food to needy members of the food and alcohol service industry. Present conditions have led to the layoff of thousands of restaurant/bar and brewery employees that depend on both hourly wages/salary and tips.
Local companies have combined forces to produce a beer, from which 100% of the sales will be used by the IIRF to provide services and funds to industry workers. Three hundred cases of Social Distance, a pale, will be sold by the IIRF’s industry partners to Central Indiana bars and breweries that have licenses for “to go” sales, and those businesses will then sell six packs of the beer by carryout or delivery in order to raise money for their business and their own employees.
The first run of Social Distance has been funded by donations by several breweries and beer related companies. Centerpoint Brewing in Indianapolis is providing the equipment on which to do the brewing and the labor, tank space, and energy for production. Sugar Creek Malt Co. of Lebanon is providing the grains for the beer, the hop farm Indy High Bines of Indianapolis donated the hops, and Sun King Brewing of Indianapolis gave the yeast for fermentation. Daredevil Brewing of Speedway is contributing cans and Monon Beverage Brokers the labels, while Indiana On Tap is donating graphic design and marketing services.
Interested parties wishing to purchase cases of Social Distance should contact IIRF via Sean Webster at sean@mononbeverage.com or 317-340-0227, or Centerpoint Brewing at sales@centerpointbrewing.com. The first run of Social Distance will be complete and ready for distribution two weeks from the brew date of March 20, 2020 and the design is to have all cases presold by that time. Cases will have a suggested resale of $10/6-pack ($40/case). This will provide individual businesses with profit (and tips) for their employees, while the IIRF will generate $9000 from this initial run.
The funds collected by IIRF from this100% donation beer will be used to purchase food stuffs for the immediate needs of industry worker that have been laid off. Foods to be distributed from the contributing breweries in their taprooms (Daredevil, Sun King, and Centerpoint). Laid off workers should monitor social media for the dates and times of the distribution.
The recipe for the Social Distance beer will be made available to all Indiana breweries so they may produce the beer themselves for draft sales, the proceeds of which will provide some funds and tips for their employees, as well as an appreciated donation to the IIRF. Future production of Social Distance and a series of charity beers will not be based on 100% donation of ingredients and labor, but the plan is for these to provide an ongoing source of funds that IIRF will distribute to needy individuals within the industry for a variety of reasons beyond the present coronavirus pandemic and restaurant/bar shutdown.
About Indy Independent Relief Fund. The Indy Independent Relief Fund was registered as a nonprofit organization on March 19, 2020. Dedicated to “Serve those who serve us” entity to provide assistance for food and alcohol industry workers in both the short-and long-term. Sean Webster of Monon Beverage Brokers is the president of the Fund, and a board of directors is being set up at the present time. The goal of the fund is to continually generate funds through the production and sale of charity beers, which will then be donated to industry workers in need due to health, financial, or personal reasons. (End of Press Release.)
Other Indiana breweries have begun brewing beers for the Industry Relief Series. The next one will be named Essential, a 4.6% ABV Pilsner, from Grand Junction in Westfield. It is scheduled to be canned on 4/30.
Some Indiana breweries are participating in the brewing of All Together Beer, which is a worldwide collaboration to benefit the hospitality industry. They will use a base IPA recipe modified as they see fit. The Indiana breweries known to be participating in this benefit, and the release date for their beer, is listed below:
450 North Brewing, Columbus – Release TBD
The Devil’s Trumpet, Merrillville – Release 4/24
Moontown Brewing, Whitestown – Release 6/2
2 Toms Brewing, Fort Wayne – Release TBD
The press release for All Together is shown below:
Other Half Brewing Announces All Together Beer Worldwide Collaboration to Benefit Hospitality Industry
Mar. 29, 2020 at 2:00 PM
BROOKLYN, N.Y.- – The team at Other Half Brewing Co is proud to announce All Together, a worldwide beer collaboration created to raise funds & awareness for the industry we love so much. Regardless of location or circumstances, when one member of the hospitality industry struggles, the rest of the group (including brewers, servers, bartenders, bussers, dishwashers, GMs, buyers, chefs & owners) steps in to help and lend a hand.
With this spirit in mind, Other Half Brewing (OHB) is spearheading the All Together project, started by a collective of beer industry partners from around the globe, to raise awareness and provide relief to those struggling in the industry as we’re all in this together.
“Raising awareness about the devastating losses in the hospitality industry is the core vision of this project,” says Matt Monahan, co-founder, Other Half Brewing. “We want to keep these losses at the forefront of conversations so that anyone who wants to help can learn what is happening and find a way to contribute to the recovery.”
How does the project work? #AllTogetherBeer invites any brewer, from any corner of the planet, to participate by providing the tools needed to make the beer at the lowest possible cost, including an open-source recipe, artwork, and name. In exchange, the collective asks that a portion of the proceeds go to supporting hospitality professionals in each brewery’s own community. The rest should be donated to keeping the brewery in business to weather this storm.
Recipe: OHB created a base recipe that easily brewed with commonly sourced ingredients. Each participating brewery can modify the beer as they see fit and brew it at their own convenience.
Artwork + Label: Stout Collective created the label artwork that can be customized by brewery, and Blue Label Printing has offered to print at cost.
Website: Craftpeak Team donated their time, talent & technology for the site
Breweries can get involved by reaching out to alltogether.beer/ for more information.
Beer drinkers can support this cause by signing up for the mailing list. The beers are being brewed around the world, and the newsletter will inform beer lovers worldwide when they’re available to purchase from their local brewery.
At OHB, the proceeds of All Together will go to the Restaurant Workers Community Foundation; https://www.restaurantworkerscf.org/ and the beer is expected to be available starting April 2020. Social assets can be found here.
The #AllTogetherBeer project begins with the following breweries with more to be announced: Other Half Brewing, NYC; Side Project, St. Louis, MO; Monkish, Torrance, CA; Trillium, Boston, MA; Alvarado St, Monterey, CA; Arizona Wilderness, Phoenix, AZ; Outer Range, Frisco, CO; The Veil, Richmond, VA; Omnipollo, Stockholm, Sweden; Humble Sea, Santa Cruz, CA; Finback, NY; Crak, Padua, Italy; 3 Sheeps Brewing, Sheboygan, WI; Sigma Brewing, Houston, TX; Southern Grist, Nashville, TN; Burial, Asheville, NC; Mikerphone, Chicago, IL; Pilot Project, Chicago, IL; Modist, Minneapolis, MN; Homes, Detroit, MI; KCBC, Brooklyn, NY; Industrial Arts, Garnerville, NY; Fifth Hammer, Queens, NY; Hidden Springs, Tampa, FL; Green Cheek, Anaheim, CA; Bottle Logic, Anaheim, CA; Parish, Broussard, LA; Vitamin Sea, Weymouth, MA; Ska, Durango, CO; Equilibrium, Middletown, NY; Northern Monk, Leeds, UK; Garage Project, Wellington, NZ; Wylam, Newcastle, UK; Lervig, Stavanger, Norway; Juguetes Perdidos, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Carton Atlantic, Highlands, NJ; American Solera, Tulsa, OK; Civil Society, Jupiter, FL; Anchorage, Anchorage, AK; Hoof Hearted, Columbus, OH; Barrier, Oceanside, NY; Sand City, Northport, NY; Bellwoods, Toronto, ON; Whiplash, Dublin, Ireland; Boundary, Belfast, N. Ireland; Dancing Gnome, Pittsburgh, PA; Collective Arts, Hamilton, ON; and more. alltogether.beer/.
About Other Half Brewing
Founded in 2014 by Sam Richardson, Matt Monahan and Andrew Burman, Other Half Brewing is rooted in a simple mission: to push the boundaries of beer. Known for its hazy IPAs, pastry stouts, and creative sours, Other Half has built a loyal community of fans around its Brooklyn taproom, and grown to become one of the most sought after breweries in the country. Through their innovative festivals (Pastrytown & Green City), creative flavors and with locations in East Bloomfield, NY and Brooklyn, NY, Other Half seeks to be constantly moving the beer industry forward. otherhalfbrewing.com/
