Bars

Anchorage, Alaska

Glacier Brewhouse is downtown Anchorage's anchor restaurant and brewery — a beloved gathering place with house-brewed ales, an extensive Alaskan seafood menu, and a warm ambiance that makes it the preferred evening destination for visitors to the state's largest city. The lively bar atmosphere and position in Anchorage's downtown entertainment core make Glacier Brewhouse the social hub around which the city's visiting gaming and tourism traffic naturally gravitates.

737 W 5th Ave 99501

Anchorage, Alaska

Glacier Brewhouse is Anchorage's most celebrated brewery restaurant — a downtown institution where hand-crafted Alaskan beers are served alongside the finest local seafood (Copper River salmon, Kodiak king crab, halibut) in a spectacular rustic Alaskan setting. Its extraordinary commitment to both craft brewing and Alaska's remarkable seafood bounty creates a bar and restaurant experience of genuine Alaskan excellence.

737 W 5th Ave, Anchorage, AK 99501

Anchorage, Alaska

Humpy's Great Alaskan Alehouse is downtown Anchorage's most celebrated sports bar and live music venue — a 400-seat institution with over 50 Alaska and Pacific Northwest craft beers on tap, live music four nights a week, and a halibut fish-and-chips that has won national recognition. The largest beer selection in Alaska and proximity to the Egan Center make Humpy's the essential gathering point for anyone spending time in downtown Anchorage.

610 W 6th Ave 99501

Anchorage, Alaska

Midnight Sun Brewing is Alaska's most acclaimed craft brewery — an Anchorage institution producing outstanding barrel-aged beers, IPAs, and seasonal ales that have placed Alaska's craft brewing culture on the national map. Its extraordinary brewing creativity, its commitment to Alaska-inspired flavors, and its role in establishing Anchorage as one of America's most surprising craft beer cities create a brewery taproom of genuine excellence.

8111 Dimond Hook Dr, Anchorage, AK 99507

Anchorage, Alaska

Anchorage's downtown cocktail bar scene is among the most unique in America — a city where the extraordinary combination of long dark winters (4 hours of daylight in December) and spectacular midnight sun summers creates a bar culture of unusual seasonal intensity. The Alaskan winter's dramatic isolation and the summer's perpetual light create a drinking culture where bars serve as genuine community anchors in ways few Lower 48 cities can understand.

325 G St, Anchorage, AK 99501

Juneau, Alaska

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.

5429 Shaune Dr, Juneau, AK 99801

Juneau, Alaska

Alaskan Brewing Company presents guided tours and tastings at Alaska's oldest operating brewery in Juneau.

Juneau, Alaska

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.

167 S Franklin St 99801

Juneau, Alaska

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.

167 S Franklin St, Juneau, AK 99801

Juneau, Alaska

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.

278 S Franklin St 99801

Juneau, Alaska

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.

278 S Franklin St, Juneau, AK 99801