Midnight Sun Brewing Company Reviews

Cybercat	3.7 Midnight Sun Arctic Devil Pours clear mahogany with a nice buttermilk head. Aroma features caramel, dark fruit, toasty malt. Flavor offers caramel, toasted malt, woody, chocolate notes. Texture yields firm body & lively fizz. The devil is in the barleywine. Saturday, February 10, 2024
dflb	5 Midnight Sun Berserker Purchased at El Cerrito Liquor from Corona, California for $17.99, Berserker is an imperial stout with maple syrup and molasses, and aged in bourbon barrels brewed by Midnight Sun Brewing Company from Anchorage, Alaska. The scent of chocolate, roasted malt, maple syrup, molasses, espresso, red wine, dark fruit, and vanilla are noted as you drink. The appearance is pitch black that pours a low tan head that dissipates gradually with a minimal circular retention remaining and similar lacing. When held up to light, no light shines through. Dark mahogany shows when light reflects off the surface of the beer. The alcohol content is 12.7%. Chocolate is fairly rich, malty to the touch, and deepened by roasted malt. Molasses slightly syrups the drink, thickens the body, and applies a brown sugar tint and tinge to the malty comprehension. Maple syrup melds with the malty and molasses tandem, accompanied with a vanilla tone, and lingers upon the mouthfeel during the relatively dry finish. Oak imparts a charred tint that blends with the malty, molasses, and maple syrup combination. Espresso lightly bitters the take, and paints the chocolate, molasses, maple syrup, and charred composition. Bourbon subtly boozes the drink, warms the beverage, and administers a licorice spice to the finish. Shiraz wine gives off black cherry, blackberry, and tobacco hues to the chocolate, molasses, maple syrup, and char mixture. Prunes are discernible with the Shiraz, molasses, and char notes. Raisins are sensed during the chocolate, molasses, maple syrup, and bourbon finish. Berserker is a voluptuous barrel aged imperial stout. Chocolate and roasted malts, molasses, maple syrup, vanilla, oak, bourbon, Shiraz wine, prunes, and raisins merges into a glamorous craft beer. Molasses, maple syrup, and bourbon make it easy to drink this libation as espresso bitters the take. The Shiraz wine is jammy, intertwining with the molasses and maple syrup upon the malts, bourbon, espresso, prunes, and raisins. The malty, molasses, maple syrup, and jammy wine composition moderately weighs the body, which is accented by espresso. Chocolate, molasses, maple syrup, charred oak, tobacco like Shiraz wine, licorice infused bourbon, and raisins leaves a lasting impression upon the relatively dry finish. I cherished every single drink, and enamored by the jammy wine, molasses, and maple syrup combination upon this barrel aged imperial stout. Cheers. Prost. Drink for the love of beer. For more beer reviews, visit and follow my blog “Drink for the Love of Beer.” Tuesday, January 30, 2024
explosivedog	3.4 Midnight Sun 2014 Alaskana Series: Termination Dust Bottle. Pours dark brown. Toffee, biscuit, booze, hefty booze, whisky. Medium body. Fine. Monday, September 18, 2023
furthur	4.1 Midnight Sun Berserker On The High Seas Bottle, thick black beer, skiff of black walnut colored foam. Aroma dark malt, toasted barley, cherries, pecans, vanilla. Taste dark malt, toasted barley, toast, burnt sugar, pecans, vanilla, sour cherries, cookies, cinnamon. Palate rich and thick, carbonation average. overall, richly flavored, dark, malty and toasty, not too sweet,, quite good. Saturday, September 2, 2023
jgb9348	4.1 Midnight Sun I Said Never, But… s: chocolate lactose wheat a: slightly hazy golden nice thin head t: vanilla nuts sugars p: creamy rich deep o: light coffee full-of-flavour enjoyable 12 ounce can La Bodega: Anchorage, Alaska 05-October-2021 US$4,35 sampled: 17-August-2023 Friday, August 18, 2023
mcberko	3.9 Midnight Sun Arctic Devil 2022 - Blanton's Bourbon 12 oz. bottle, pours a dark amber brown with a small beige head. Aroma brings out a nice rich bourbon character, followed by dark dried fruits and toffee. Flavour is much like the Wellers version: rich and complex, very similar to classic Arctic Devil, with big dark dried fruits, massive bourbon barrels, brandy, toffee, caramel, and brown sugar. The booze is obvious but reasonably incorporate into the barrel, with less spirit character than the Wellers and perhaps slightly more elegance. It's still rather hot and rough, but it's good and a tiny step above the Wellers. Wednesday, August 16, 2023
mcberko	3.8 Midnight Sun Arctic Devil 2022 - Weller Bourbon 12 oz. bottle, pours a deep dark brown with a small beige head. Aroma brings out big brandied dark dried fruits, big bourbon barrels, molasses, and brown sugar. Flavour is rich and complex, very similar to classic Arctic Devil, with big dark dried fruits, massive bourbon barrels, brandy, toffee, caramel, and brown sugar. The booze is obvious but reasonably nicely into the barrel / spirit character. Pretty nice stuff, though maybe a bit rougher and boozier than I remember. Thursday, August 10, 2023
mcberko	3.8 Midnight Sun Leche Libre 12 oz. bottle, pours black with a small tan head. Nose is dominated by the horchata spice -- loads of cinnamon mostly, with some cocoa and a hint of pepper -- plus some port and oak barrels. Flavour is much the same, but has a dominant cola character, along with sweet chocolate, lots of cinnamon, and port barrels. Nice dark sugars combine with the cinnamon, cola and port notes on the finish. I'm not usually a fan of these spiced stouts, but this is pretty great. Wednesday, July 12, 2023
furthur	3.9 Midnight Sun Big School Words Hazy pale yellow beer, chunky white head. Aroma crackers, passion fruit, pineapple. Taste malt, orange, grapefruit, mango, hint of banana. Palate medium rich, carbonation average. Tropical fruity juicy goodness, exceptional! Sunday, July 9, 2023
mrjaxson	3.5 Midnight Sun Oosik Amber Ale Balanced taste. Caramel and plum aroma. Semi-sweet finish. Aroma and taste improve as it warms. Monday, July 3, 2023
mrjaxson	3.9 Midnight Sun What Road At brewery, they just call it an NEIPA, but why quibble? Tasty brew. Copper penny color, solid bitterness with just enough malt to keep things sorta balanced. Monday, July 3, 2023
mcberko	4.2 Midnight Sun Red RyDer 12 oz. bottle, pours a cloudy dark rusted red with a medium beige head. Aroma brings out a deep, rich caramel malt character, with plenty of dark fruits and big resinous hops. Flavour is massive and very old school American barleywine-like, with loads of resinous hops, rich caramel malt, dark dried fruits, and a hint of spicy rye. Impeccably balanced despite its gravity. This reminds of American barleywines from the early 2010's: hoppier than most IPAs, yet has a humungous malt character. Excellent. Tuesday, June 27, 2023
mcberko	3.4 Midnight Sun 28 On tap at Midnight Sun, pours a cloudy deep dark amber / mahogany with a small beige head. Aroma is very expressive on the vanilla and cocoa upfront, with essentially no roast — not getting the oak either. Flavour is chocolatey upfront, with lots of milk chocolate, light vanilla and a hint of roast. Quite gentle for its high-gravity. The hops aren’t felt much, and the body is light. Tasty but I’ve never been super convinced by these pale stout. Monday, June 19, 2023
mcberko	2.8 Midnight Sun Break Up On tap at Midnight Sun, pours a clear very pale golden brown it’s a small white head. Aroma is crunchy and earthy, bringing out the spelt, along with some lightly estery saison yeast. Flavour is spicy and earthy, with earthy saison yeast, some crunchy grittiness and light esters. The yeast doesn’t have an authentic saison expression — seems improperly used. Okay. Monday, June 19, 2023
mcberko	3 Midnight Sun Laid Back On tap at Midnight Sun, pours a clear bright golden with a small white head. Aroma brings out bright Belgian yeast, light esters, candi sugar and some booze. Flavour is estery and boozy, with candi sugar, booze, and estery notes. The Belgian yeast isn’t harnessed so well, contributing more of an estery booziness than any depth or flavour complexity. It’s alright. Monday, June 19, 2023
mcberko	3.1 Midnight Sun Wolf Pack On tap at Midnight Sun, pours a clear pale golden with a medium white head. Aroma brings out fresh straw, light grassy hops and biscuity malt. Flavour is semi-sweet and fairly bready, with straw, gentle herbal hops, and bready malt. Needs more hops, but it’s clean and decently made. Alright. Monday, June 19, 2023
mansquito	3.4 Midnight Sun Oosik Amber Ale Draught at Spenard Roadhouse: pours ruby red with off-white head. Aroma is caramel and earthy. Taste is lightly bitter, low sweetness. Perfectly drinkable. Tuesday, June 13, 2023
mansquito	3.4 Midnight Sun Puffin Pale Ale Can on a Kenai Fjord Tours boat: pours brownish amber with beige head. Aroma is caramel and biscuit. Malty and lightly bitter. Kind of sweet. Not bad. Tuesday, June 13, 2023
mansquito	3.3 Midnight Sun What Road Humpy's: amber with white head. Aroma is pine and citrus. Not hazy but rather old school. Not bad, but... Sunday, June 11, 2023
furthur	3.9 Midnight Sun 28 Dark amber/brown beer, creamy foam color of blanched almonds. Aroma malt, rooibus. Oak, vanilla, root beer. Taste vanilla, root beer, salt, rainier cherries. Palate rich and smooth, carbonation moderate. This is quite good. Saturday, May 27, 2023
Inoven	3.5 Midnight Sun 2009 Crew Brews: Rumbah Glas gedronken met Tomhendriksen en Roelzi tijdens bierfestival in de Oirsprong. Donkerbruin bier met matig schuim. Aroma van hout en hop. Smaak is sprankelend met een dropsmaak. Nasmaak is licht bitter. Thursday, May 18, 2023
explosivedog	3.7 Midnight Sun Berserker Bottle. Pours black. Chocolate, raisin, biscuit, plum, dried red fruit, liquorice. Medium body. Solid. Friday, April 14, 2023
ITFCDan	3.8 Midnight Sun Feast Monday, April 10, 2023
furthur	3.7 Midnight Sun Violet Beuregarde Can from local store, black beer skiff of almond foam. Aroma toasted barley, vanilla, berries. Taste toasted barley, blueberry, vanilla, toast, hint of burnt sugar, and a bit of brûlée’d grapefruit. Palate medium, carbonation moderate. Sunday, March 19, 2023
furthur	3.8 Midnight Sun Winter Warmer Can from local store, dark brown beer, skiff of almond colored foam. Aroma bananas, malt, raisins. cinnamon toast. Taste vanilla, malt, cinnamon, raisins, toast, touch of burnt sugar, hint of citrus fruit. Palate medium rich, carbonation average. Sunday, February 26, 2023
Theydon_Bois	3.9 Midnight Sun 23 Can split at L6 'zo fucken hote' tasing, thanks to SHIG for the leaving gift, 13/07/22. Hazed amber with a decent light beige cap. Nose is sweet malts, toasted sugars, caramel melt, booze, dried fruit rinds. Taste comprises stewed fruits, brown sugar melt, raisins, fruit cake mix, toffee crisp. Medium plus bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close with a balanced rising boost. Decent easy sipping BW ... doesn't run too sweet. Tuesday, February 14, 2023
sinfull	4.1 Midnight Sun Berserker Black color. Thin, white head. Dark fruits, roasted malt, molasses, chocolate, and whiskey in the aroma. Rich, malty taste with warming finish and roasted bitterness at the end Wednesday, February 1, 2023
DWestrick	3.8 Midnight Sun 2014 Alaskana Series: Termination Dust 12oz bottle from Tavour. Robust! Cloudy dark brown - raisons, caramel - pretty solid Tuesday, December 20, 2022
furthur	4.3 Midnight Sun Berserker Berber Kingdom Bottle, thick, oily opaque beer, creamy dark tan foam faded. Aroma malt, toast, cookies, vanilla, spicy, peppery, touch of smoke. Taste malt, vanilla, cinnamon, pepper, cumin, chili, burnt sugar. At first, the spice it too much a lot, and maybe it’s just my palate dying, but it recedes, and tempers in the malt and vanilla, and there’s some sweet cherry and orange coming through, and then with the bourbon it reminds me of an old fashioned. Wild. Don’t stop at the first sip. Let it warm up.Oh yeah, palate rich and thick like a fleece blanky carbonation subdued. Saturday, December 10, 2022
furthur	4.3 Midnight Sun Putin's Paper Tiger Bottle, deep opaque black thick oily beer, creamy dark tan head faded. Aroma vanilla, cookies, brown sugar, malt, toast, bread dough, milk chocolate, dark cherries, a little red wine. First sip set me back, that first taste was kind of a punch, but second/third taste malt, dark cherries, toast, burnt sugar, vanilla, cookies, molasses, anise. I can taste the hops on the finish,.palate is thick and rich, but the fruitiness and vanilla lightens it up nicely, carbonation subdued. Saturday, December 10, 2022
sinfull	4 Midnight Sun Arctic Devil Darc, brown color. Medium-sized, off-white head. Toffees, dried fruits, caramel in the aroma. Malty taste with moderate sweetness. Tuesday, December 6, 2022
furthur	4.2 Midnight Sun Leche Libre Bottle from local store. Black beer, skiff of walnut colored foam. Aroma malt, vanilla, cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg, horchata, hint of red wine, toast, cookies. Taste vanilla, horchata, cookies, dark cherries, bit of toffee/burnt sugar, cola. Palate rich and thick, pretty sweet, but not cloying toothache saccharine, and delicious as a dessert. Sunday, November 20, 2022
IndianaRed	3.2 Midnight Sun 2014 Alaskana Series: Termination Dust Bottle dark brown pour standard malty carmelized light toasted malts in the aroma. More standards woody malty notes at the end. Just OK Saturday, November 19, 2022
neepsntatties	3.8 Midnight Sun Putin's Paper Tiger Bottle shared by AKFaust. Colour…basic black with a thin tan head. Nose…darkly fruity with a lean towards prunes, black currants and dates. Palate…. Frothy, heady and deeply oaky with astringency and a ton of booze! The mid palate is very dry and has tons of grip! The finish is long, tight and darkly fruity. Saturday, November 12, 2022
phaleslu	3.8 Midnight Sun SOB Stout (Son Of Berserker) 22 oz. bottle from Best Damn Beer Shop. Pours a deep, dark, nearly opaque brown with a small tan head that settles into a ring and island of film with two ribbons tying it to the sides of the glass. Notes of roasted malts, dark chocolate, tobacco, earth, burnt brown sugar, and coffee grounds. Light-bodied, with low to modest carbonation and a roasty mouthfeel. Nice stout. Has held up well. I aged it too long so there's a hint of oxidation, but nothing much. Thursday, November 3, 2022
poisoneddwarf	4.1 Midnight Sun 2014 Alaskana Series: Termination Dust 12 oz. 2021 bottle. Aroma has notes of caramel, toffee, wood, vanilla, bourbon. Pours murky brown with a thin beige head that settles into a ring after a minute. Taste is mostly sweet but has a nicely bitter hoppy edge. Very nice. Sunday, September 25, 2022
MrTipple	3.7 Midnight Sun 23 29Jul2022 Sweet grain and cereal malts, caramel, molasses, sweet oak, bourbon. Hazy, murky brown, small, frothy, off-white head. Light bitter and sweet. Heavy sweet, candied malts, caramel, molasses, soft carb, full bod. Boozy, lacks depth, not unpleasant though. Can from Panda Bear HQ. Friday, September 23, 2022
stevoj	4.2 Midnight Sun 2014 Alaskana Series: Termination Dust 12oz bottle from Tavour. Dark brown pour, ring of fine beige head. Malty, aroma, sweet, chocolate, cinnamon. Sweet taste, molasses, malty, chocolate and light bourbon notes. Very smooth for 13%. Tuesday, September 13, 2022
furthur	4.2 Midnight Sun 27 Can from brown jug, opaque black beer, excellent chocolate shake colored head. Aroma malt, toasted barley, vanilla, dried fruit, dark chocolate. Taste dark malt, toasted barley, grapefruit rind (it’s hoppy), vanilla, cognac, oak, raisins. Palate rich and thick, carbonation moderate. Monday, September 12, 2022
AirForceHops	4.1 Midnight Sun Brett Trippin’ 22 oz. Bottle. Only found at the brewery. Aroma is white wine, oak and mild Brett. Lightly tart with moderate sour in the finish. Shows a nice oak character. The carbonation is zippyover the tongue, great effervescence. The texture is dry and crisp with a medium body. This reminds me of old school Russian River. Like completely spot on of a mild / sour ale! Saturday, September 3, 2022
AirForceHops	4 Midnight Sun Putin's Paper Tiger 22 oz. Bottle. Thanks Adam for grabbing this at the brewery. Aroma is roasted malt, chocolate, red wine. Flavor is bold and intense. Roast, char, a hint of smoke. Red wine lingers a bit after the sip. Bold and deep. Sunday, August 28, 2022
AirForceHops	3.7 Midnight Sun Snowshoe White 4 oz. Draft. Had has “Alpenglow” because of The pomegranate syrup used. Mild wheat and pomegranate aroma. typical wheat / yeast backbone with a easy smooth pomegranate. Refreshing. Sunday, August 28, 2022
AirForceHops	3.5 Midnight Sun Mexican Pilsner 4 oz. sample At the brewery. This seems to be the perfect Corona clone! OK seriously there’s actually a lot more flavor here. Good pils or malt base with a soft citrus bitterness. Light crisp texture. Nice! Sunday, August 28, 2022
AirForceHops	4.2 Midnight Sun 27 4 oz draft at the brewery. The cognac and port make this a really rich deep inflavorful imperial style. Port wine, soft fortified wine and mild roast. Thick body with a slight bitterness for Balance. Real flavorful! Sunday, August 28, 2022
AirForceHops	3.4 Midnight Sun 2017 Wild Adventure Series: Sporter 4 oz. Draft at the brewery. Aroma is sharp red wine.flavor has the funky red wine with a sharper oak finish. Lingering pucker aftertaste. As it should be. Sunday, August 28, 2022
AirForceHops	3.5 Midnight Sun Sun Thief 4 oz draft at the brewery. Flavor of chocolate, strong roast, some coffee like bitterness. Again, solid representation. Sunday, August 28, 2022
AirForceHops	4 Midnight Sun Fallen Angel Golden Strong Ale 4 oz. Draft at the source.. Proper Belgian Strong Golden. Yeast dominated. Bubble gum, banana and mild booze. Solid! Sunday, August 28, 2022
AirForceHops	3.8 Midnight Sun Wolf Pack 4 oz. Draft at the brewery. Classic pils. Honey, grain, soft floral. Crisp texture. 3.8 Sunday, August 28, 2022
AirForceHops	3.6 Midnight Sun Kveik Like A Duck 4 oz. Sample at the brewery. Flavor spicy yeast, pale grain, herbal finish. Nice! Sunday, August 28, 2022
AdamChandler	3.9 Midnight Sun Putin's Paper Tiger Bomber, split 2 ways. It's oily black and dark. has a 1 finger tan head. This is very good. Dense, creamy, heavy dark chocolate notes, charred fiery barrel notes. aroma is cocoa, peanuts, coconut. I'm getting a lot of base BCS or Hair of the Dog stouts flavors. Like everything has become super intense and thick and a little smokey char. mellow light smoke finish with hints of blackberry and cherry. Very nice but glad to have split it 2 ways. Sunday, August 28, 2022