An Arctic apple ale from Anchorage Alaska. An alliteration in pseudo cider, how do you like them apples? My favourite son dropped off this brew that a co-worker had brought back from the Broken Tooth brewers way up in sunny Anchorage. In 1867 Seward brokered a deal to buy Alaska from the Russians for $7.2 million* which adds up to about 2 cents an acre (Alaska is about 426 million acres). Critics, we call them haters today, called it “Seward’s folly” and “Walrussia” but when gold was discovered in 1888 all of a sudden Seward’s deal to make Alaska part of the US looked like a pretty savvy parlay.**
Broken Tooth. This is not the Apple-achians.
I am sure you are thinking, like I was thinking, that with a name like Broken Tooth the brewery founders must be hockey players. If that’s what you were thinking, like I was thinking, then you would be wrong, like I was. Moose’s Tooth, Bear Tooth and Broken Tooth*** are mountain peaks in the Alaska Range. By the way if you are planning to mountain climb on Broken Tooth with a broken tooth you should be aware that changes in elevation can aggravate existing dental conditions. Where was I? Oh yea, beer review.
A hazy light orange pour with a tinge of reddish in there. A slim trim bright white glacial head. Mild pale ale, almost a session sour on the nose. And the taste? Apple sweet, very appley. More apple than even Adam and Eve could handle. Could be MacIntosh or gala or honey crisp, they could even be Granny’s for all we know. As the apple settles down there is still a bit of fizz with very mild malt in the background. But don’t get me wrong, this is still an all-apple fruit forward ale. A smoothsweet body with a touch of a crisp sweet finish. Very light, easy drinking apple juice beer.
Not the apple of my eye, but a tasty and interesting fruit beer departure from the classic pale ale.
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