E-Malt.com News article: USA, AK: Alaskan Brewing Co. announces the return of Alaskan Raspberry Wheat

The Alaskan Brewing Co. announced the return of the eagerly anticipated Alaskan Raspberry Wheat Ale, scheduled for release May 31, beerpulse.com reported on May, 28.

Raspberry Wheat was first unveiled in 2010 as the inaugural brew in Alaskan’s Pilot Series. It proved to be very popular, particularly in its home town of Juneau, and the brewery has released it in early summer every year since.

The 2012 release of the beer saw a record turn-out of fans, and the Brewery’s Gift Shop sold out of the entire initial bottling in under an hour. This year, Alaskan has increased the inventory and the release of the Raspberry Wheat will be celebrated with a pancake feed featuring raspberry syrup and special flapjacks prepared by the Brew Crew to serve to the expectant crowds.

Alaskan Raspberry Wheat was awarded the 2012 Northwest Brewing News Readers’ Choice Award for best fruit beer, and is a member of Alaskan’s growing list of rotating specialty recipes released in the brewery’s limited-edition Pilot Series. Pilot Series beers represent the creativity of the Alaskan Brew Crew.

“Each new recipe is first created on our one-barrel experimental brew system, perfected in our ten-barrel pilot brew house, then put to the test through our Rough Draft series of draft-only beers distributed in Alaska,” explained Alaskan Production Manager Dave Wilson. Those special brews that stand out to the Brew Crew and their fans in Alaska graduate to a limited release in the Alaskan Pilot Series. “Alaskan Raspberry Wheat has been one of our favourite Pilot Series brews.”


31 May, 2013