4 Best Bars in Juneau, the Inside Passage, and Southeast Alaska, Alaska

The company's tasty, award-winning beers—including Alaskan Amber, Icy Bay IPA, White, and Freeride Pale Ale—are brewed and bottled in Juneau. This is no designer brewery—it's in Juneau's industrial area (5 miles from downtown), and there's no upscale café-bar attached—but in the friendly tasting room visitors can choose from more than 20 varieties of Alaskan beer, including hard-to-find "rough drafts," and food trucks encourage lingering. A retail shop downtown sells Alaskan-branded clothing and other items.

A former theater on the uphill end of Franklin Street now houses a spacious, high-ceilinged brewpub with an interesting selection of well-produced beverages, including an Alaska Beer Award–winning IPA, a black lager, and a house cider, along with several types of hard seltzer. Stop in on a Wednesday for pizza night, or choose from a selection of snacks and sandwiches, including vegetarian options.

This downtown microbrewery sells beer by the sample glass or pint glass and in liter growlers to go. Captain Cook's Spruce Tip Ale is a good choice, best enjoyed on the back deck if the weather complies. Just note that the brewery is cash only. In recent years Haines has become known as a hub for the craft beer movement; in May, the town hosts the Great Alaska Craft Beer & Home Brew Festival, a wildly popular event.

This gem is about a 20-minute walk from town and well worth the effort. In addition to a rotating selection of small-batch IPAs, lagers, stouts, and more unusual offerings, Harbor Mountain makes their own root beer and cream soda. There's a pizzeria in the same building.