Carrie’s Ramblings

Yukon Brewing Company
Carrie posted in Uncategorized on May 17th, 2007

Today after putting some hours in at the Yukon Volunteer Bureau, some friends came by and picked me up on the way to the Yukon Brewing Company. Located at the far end of Whitehorse, the brewery is in this tiny building using an entirely local process to develop their unique tasting beer. They reuse old bottles and check them over and stir the vats of beer with big paddles and stack them up themselves then use a glue gun from Canadian tire to close the boxes:) Local artists have competed to design the labels and the boxes and one beer is even named after a famous local Yukon Quest Lead Dog. You can go on this tour of the place and see how they make all the beer and bottle it, etc and taste all the different beers at the same time. Yeah so by 5 in the afternoon we were all a little bit tipsy and having a good time!! So buddy who looks like he graduated from Rec (he’s actually originally from St. Catherines) tells us all about the different beers and how they were developed and what ingredients they use etc. There were some great beers there! It was like wine tasting only with beer. He told us what to look for and colour differences and different levels of filtration…I tried to remember it all but couldn’t possibly (especially after all we had to drink:). I’m going to bring this one type of beer back home that is designed almost like an ice wine version of beer. You wouldn’t drink a bottle of it but it’s almost sweet and the guy recommended having it right before dinner as a sort of palate cleansing beverage. It comes in these big jug-like bottles as opposed to individual servings and you would just sip it. It was really good! And they had some beers that have wild berries with fireweed (the territorial flower) in it and an India Pale Ale that smelled like spruce trees. They even had one called Espresso Stout or something or other that tasted like coffee. You can imagine I didn’t really like it but it was interesting nonetheless.

After leaving the brewery we roamed the streets of Whitehorse causing trouble and the likes and ended up at the Log Cabin Sky Scraper looking for Kristie but she wasn’t home. I hope she gives me a call because I’d love to rent her place from her while she’s going her fish study in Juneau or wherever it is that she’s going. Because after that I’ve lined up a place to housesit from June 17th to July 17th. It’s up the hill (bugger) but it’s between the college and town so a good balance I think. Plus I get to look after Maya, this beautiful chocolate Lab that is so well trained and good natured. So if taking care of a dog doesn’t fit with me I can always give it back at the end of the month! A good trial period…

All for now!