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Main :: Our Brew :: Alaskan Smoked Porter :: Smoked Porter Story It all started with smoked salmon. Alaskan smoked salmon. Alaskan Brewing Company co-founders Geoff and Marcy Larson had their eyes on brewing a beer with roasted malts. Marcy's research even found evidence of roasted malt use in Juneau during the town's gold rush era. Geoff and Marcy speculated that roasted malts at the turn of the century in Alaska must have been kilned over a fire and would pick up traces of the smoke. Crews from Alaskan Brewing and Taku Smokeries, a local smoked salmon fish processing facility, traditionally gathered on Friday afternoons to quaff an Alaskan Amber and munch on smoked salmon. Geoff posed a question to Sandro Lane, owner of Taku Smokeries, about using Taku's smokehouse to smoke malt. With the promise of a case of the finished product, the deal was struck. Larson and his crew built special racks to hold the malt for smoking. From there, the malt was smoked over indigenous alder wood - the critical ingredient of the now legendary Alaskan Smoked Porter. "The first batch was too smoky. It overpowered the beer. However, the porter side came out great. We cooled the smoking process for the second batch giving the beer a subtler smoke aroma," Geoff said. The brew crew decided to combine the qualities of both initial batches to create a recipe that yielded a complex, yet smoky beer. The official release date was set for December 24th, 1988. The Larson's figured the beer would still be available in the New Year so they put 1989 on the label. However, Alaskan Smoked Porter was such a hit that the shelves were empty by New Year's Eve. Alaskan Smoked Porter has been brewed every fall since then and has remained just as elusive. It has gone on to become one of the most award winning beers in the history of the Great American Beer Festival with a total of eleven medals, including five straight gold (Smoked Beer Category - 1991 - 1995).It has also won awards at the World Beer Cup and the internationally acclaimed Brewing Industry International Awards in England. While the Larsons are clearly pleased with the beer's popularity, they really appreciate the fact that they have resurrected part of Juneau's history - bringing an element of a style of beer that was produced one hundred years ago to today's consumer. And to think that smoked salmon was the catalyst. << Back to Alaskan Smoked Porter |
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