Local makers bubbling over with hard seltzer
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The Albany Distilling Co.’s line of hard seltzers and canned cocktails, photographed in the courtyard of ADCo’s bar and bottle shop on Livingston Avenue in Albany. (Photo by Kiki Vassilikas for ADCo.)Kiki Vassilakis/ADCo.Show MoreShow Less
When Jeff Vukelic’s now-grown children were young, he and his wife rarely served traditional soda.
“We didn’t give them Pepsi, Coke. They drank fruit drinks and juice boxes,” Vukelic said. Fruity flavors with names like Surfer Cooler and Orange Pineapple Tango have populated the juice box aisles of grocery stores for decades, influencing the palates of millennials like his children.
Overall, Alaska ranked fifth for breweries per capita and fourth in gallons consumed per capita in 2020, according to the Brewers Association cited in the report.