Bars in Juneau

Alaska Brewing Company is Alaska's most famous craft brewery — a Juneau institution producing the legendary Amber Ale (one of the first craft beers distributed nationally from Alaska) that helped launch the American craft brewing revolution. Juneau's extraordinary setting (a state capital accessible only by sea or air, surrounded by the Juneau Icefield) and Alaska Brewing's extraordinary legacy in American craft brewing history create a taproom experience of genuine national significance.

The Alaskan Hotel Bar in Juneau is Alaska's oldest operating hotel bar, established in 1913 during the height of the Klondike Gold Rush era — a genuine piece of frontier history with original Victorian back bar, local art, and regular live music that makes it simultaneously a tourist attraction and beloved local institution. The bar's position on Juneau's historic main commercial street gives it unmatched character among Alaska's historic drinking establishments.

Alaskan Hotel Bar is Juneau's most historic bar — a South Franklin Street institution in Alaska's oldest operating hotel (1913) whose extraordinary frontier atmosphere serves Juneau's unusual community of legislators, fishermen, Alaska Native leaders, and tourists arriving by cruise ship. Juneau's extraordinary inaccessibility (no road connects it to the rest of Alaska) and its role as state capital create a bar community of unusual political and cultural diversity.

Red Dog Saloon is Alaska's most famous tourist bar — a Juneau institution on South Franklin Street that has been serving cruise ship passengers and locals since 1890 with sawdust floors, antlers on every wall, live banjo music, and Alaska's largest collection of frontier memorabilia. The saloon's theatrical frontier atmosphere and prime location near the cruise terminal make it the first stop for hundreds of thousands of Alaska visitors annually.

Red Dog Saloon is Alaska's most famous bar — a Juneau institution with sawdust floors, a honky-tonk piano, and walls covered in extraordinary Alaska memorabilia creating the most authentically Alaskan bar atmosphere in the state capital. Juneau's extraordinary position as both a cruise ship destination and the state capital creates a bar clientele of remarkable diversity, where fishermen, politicians, and cruise tourists share a space of genuine frontier character.