So Katie and I just returned from a lovely 1 week cruise through beautiful Alaska. Of course sampling some of the local hops and malts was a major focus so I thought doing an outline of the breweries we visited would be a great way to restart this lovely little project of ours.
So let's begin in Skagway where we visited the Red Onion Saloon and the Skagway Brewing Company
First the Red Onion Saloon. All I need to say is don't go. It's a tourist trap with, overpriced food,fake brothel girls giving cheesy tours and tons of crap to buy with the pubs name on it.The bartender took more time correcting the fact that our tour book was wrong in mentioning the saloon had 3 dollar beer specials ( the only reason we checked it out) then he did talking to us. Katie and I got one quick pre-nooner (a pint before noon) and bolted.
Our second stop in Skagway was much better. Filled more with locals than tourists, very helpful staff, delicious food and homemade brews Skagway Brewing Company is a much better place to enjoy malty hoppy goodness in Skagway. For starters the beer prices were fair. I believe 7 dollars for a sampler of generous pours of 4 of their home mades (Chilkoot Trail IPA,, Prospector Pale, Blue Top Porter and Boom Town) Brown) and you get a free hat YEAHY. All the beers were delicious and I especially enjoyed the Porter. It was a strong dark black in color, slightly chocolaty but not heavy like most porters. Of course I followed the sampler with a second Pint of this delectable dark liquid. Katie on the other hand went with her heart and tried out the house specialty the Spruce Tip Blonde. The spruce tip wasn't on the sampler, because the waitress said that the batch they were serving wasn't up to it's normal excellency and she didn't want our first sips of the brew masters favorite child to be a disappointment. Katie disagreed after a small sample and ordered herself a pint. I'd comment on the beer itself but Katie downed it before I was able to get even a single swig. Hopefully she will add to the blog with some of her fuzzy recollections.
Two other high notes of the Skagway Brew Co. were the absolutely delicious salmon sandwhich and their house shot. Simply put the Salmon sandwhich at this brewery was far and away the best salmon we ate the entire ALASKAN CRUISE. Understand Bar Sandwhich was better than the Cruise Salmon. The salmon also came with some delicious hand cut fries. The shot was a in house made infusion of vanilla and pineapple vodka. It was way better than it sounds and it sounded to good for me to not buy us each one.
For Skagway I'll simply say make a straight line to the Skagway Brew Co. I wish this wonderful brewery wasn't so many hundreds of miles away or I'd be making many a visit. As for the Red Onion Salloon well it just stunk...get it....like an onion...I'm funny.
Anyway good night little Beer Monsters Hope to get back to you soon
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