Midnight Sun Brewing Company

Commercial Brewery | Anchorage, AK, United States of America

Vital Statistics

Beers

Overall average: 78 (logged 68 times)
Midnight Sun Arctic Devil: 82 (logged 11 times)
Barleywine (Aged in Barrels, Oak, Bourbon)
Midnight Sun Barfly Smoked Imperial Stout: 71 (logged 2 times)
Stout
Midnight Sun Berserker Imperial Stout: 85 (logged 29 times)
Stout (Imperial / Double, Aged in Barrels, Oak, Bourbon)
Midnight Sun CoHoHo Imperial IPA: 50 (logged 1 time)
American India Pale Ale / IPA (Imperial / Double)
Midnight Sun Gluttony Triple IPA
American India Pale Ale / IPA
Midnight Sun Kodiak Brown Ale: 67 (logged 1 time)
Brown Ale
Midnight Sun Moscow Rye Russian Imperial Stout: 71 (logged 4 times)
Stout (Imperial / Double)
Midnight Sun Panty Peeler Tripel: 56 (logged 4 times)
Belgian Tripel Ale
Midnight Sun T.R.E.A.T. Imperial Chocolate Pumpkin Porter: 78 (logged 3 times)
Pumpkin Ale (Imperial / Double)
Midnight Sun Termination Dust: 83 (logged 1 time)
Barleywine

Collaborations

Midnight Sun Joan of Arctic Ale (collaboration)
American Pale Ale
Midnight Sun Sun of a Beak Ale (collaboration): 72 (logged 10 times)
Porter (Imperial / Double, Aged in Barrels, Bourbon)

Logs for beers from this brewery

Solid. A little bit more of that nice lingering almost toasty finish that I like.
Plummy, a little vinous, concentrated. I know this isn’t the maple beer of the bunch but there’s a bit of a caramelized quality in the flavor. And I'm fairly certain this is not at all like what this beer tasted like when it was younger.
Best of the bunch, just slightly better than the Reuben's. But I mean, this is a barrel aged dark beer, so it had an unfair advantage.
Bottle at Odin Lounge
A rich, thick umami-sweet stout, what you'd expect from Midnight Sun. Starts sweet but dries out very quickly, leaving a molassesy, burnt bitter finish. A bit of a cherry syrup quality throughout.
I guess there may be such a thing as too long in the cellar; this poured a profound black and had all the sweet umami of a Berserker, but with less creaminess and completely flat. I was able to appreciate the smooth complexity, but it wasn't exactly joyful to drink.
Bottle at Odin Lounge
A bit forward on the pumpkin spice, but otherwise a smooth, milky stout that drinks very easily. Totally different from the other beers in this tasting, though, so that first sip was a weird one.
Bottle at Xbeer One
Midnight Sun Arctic Devil (unknown release)
Boozy, with a lot of bourbon character. Medium-sweet. The basic hop character of the barleywine is toward fruit, balanced with a lot of caramel.
Dry sweet strong molasses burnt flavors.
Molasses. Thick, heavy molasses. Like the time Boston was covered in molasses.
Bottle at Karthik's
A medium-bodied stout with some sweetness but a highly roasted character. The finish has some hints of peppery spice, a bit of smoke or ash and moderate bitterness, but finishes clean. It's nothing at all like the Berserker, but it is a very solid stout.
Lots of caramel and roasted malt
Can at Pool
This is very sweet though not obnoxious like the first nail. But I'm kind of sweeted out, so terhaps you should take this review with a grain of salt.
Smells like caramel molasses. The molasses continues into its sweet taste with a noticeable alcohol vapor at the end (13% ABV). Like a light non-viscous alcoholic maple syrup.
Goddamn this Seahawks is yummy.
Bottle at A Friend's
Bourbon barreled 12th Man!
Bottle at Karthik's
Bubblegummy grapefruit IPA with a peppery juniper bite on the finish. Over time, the bitterness builds up, but it starts out clean.
A great barrel aged stout but this is a competitive category.
Coats tongue with a maple taste and residue. Sappy mouth feel.
not as good in a bottle as on draft, a little stronger
Even better on draft, hard as that is to imagine.
Delicious, thick bourbon-toffee stout with a silky cocoa mouthfeel and a whole lot besides going on. It's a hammer to the face but a super-well-balanced hammer - MADE OUT OF ALCOHOL. You guys, I could drink this forever, although I'd probably be dead after just a couple.
Bottle at Home
It tasted okay, but rather one-note. Nice coriander and Belgian yeast flavor but I was hoping for a bit more champagne-like tang to go with the orange peel. It would have fought off the rather alcoholic finish nicely.
Nice, I liked the orange flavor and the crispness of the beer
Clean malt smell and taste. Some alcohol aftertaste due to minimal taste. Sharp edge but not sour, fizzy sharp.
Out of the bottle, the coconut was more subdued and a syrupy wood flavor emerged strongly at the finish. Afterwards, my mouth was dry and sour, which was an unpleasant touch on an otherwise strong beer.
Smells sour syrupy. Wood birch finish but have to fight for the coconut taste. Coconut reappears after drink.
Strong, strong alcohol flavor. Too strong? Cloudy, unbelievably rich butterscotch flavor. Slightly numbing finish.
Toasted coffee notes followed by a strong hit of alcohol flavor, mellowing quickly into a pleasant, warm coconut sheen. If the transitions were just that much smoother this would've been perfect, but still.