Skagway Brewing Company (7th & Broadway, Skagway AL)

The Skagway Brewing Company hadn't been open for very long when we arrived in late August of this year, and they were having trouble keeping a selection of their excellent house-brewed beers on tap on account of the fact that boatloads of thirsty buggers like us kept turning up and drinking it all.

The bar is a pleasant room, almost square, perhaps a little too uniform, but the bar is long and attractive, and the dark wood fixtures and fittings are very appealing. We definitely tried their own Chilkoot Train pale ale and a number of other Alaskan micro-brews that they also stock in the mutual support of similar enterprises elsewhere in the state. The beer was so good that we did conspire to get through rather a lot of it. There was food of some sort, but I'd be hard pressed to say what it was with any degree of precision. A Cuban sandwich sounds familiar, which I seem to recall coming with roast vegetables. Maybe that's just a phantasm of my novel-addled brain (I'm 42K in, in case you're interested). L. may or may not have had a veggie burger. Or a tuna melt? Yes, I think that was it.

Most of the snaps we took on the way back to the boat seem to have a head lopped off here, a foot removed there. Call it the Procrustean School of photography. We also seem to have done a lot of standing in the middle of the road and gurning, and whilst there isn't a great deal of traffic on the Skagway roads, it's not inconceivable that we may have precipitated a toot or two.

I have a very fine black T-shirt sporting the brewery logo you'll have seen on their webpage in commemoration of our visit, which I am most fond of.

That is all. Thank you.