fairbanks

The sun has long gone down, although it’s a stretch to say that it really ever comes up on a January day this far north. On the corner of an industrial street in Fairbanks though, a 1970s pipeline-era warehouse is lit warm through the perpetual dark.
Two red, pug-snouted German fire trucks, like mascots of this place, frame the entrance to a courtyard dotted with wooden tables dusted in new snow. A soaring pergola winks with strands of lights. At the center of this scene, clustered around flames burning merrily in concrete fire pits shaped like icebergs, bundled-up figures bring pints of beer to fire-warmed lips, punctuating the 30-degree-below night with laughter.

Welcome to hoodoo brewing company in the core of Alaska.

Read more