(Anchorage, AK) – Midnight Sun Brewing is the latest to test out its local wild yeast in brewing.

San Francisco-based City Beer Store will celebrate its 5th anniversary next month. What better way to mark the event than with a new wild beer? Midnight Sun is helping them do just that…

“Brewed in July 2010 at Midnight Sun by City Beer Store owners, Craig and Beth Wathen and our brew crew, Open Container was fermented with Wild AK yeasts then aged in Chardonnay barrels for several months. This very special 3-barrel batch honors eccentric West Coast brewing.”

Stats: 6% ABV, 20 IBUs, 22 oz. bottles

City Beer has not published any information about bottle sales for this. Tickets for its anniversary party sold out earlier this week but perhaps bottles will be may be available outside of the event (they’re trying to see if they will be able to sell more tickets and I will try to get some details on the beer release when they open). In any case, this beer will be poured at the event along with four other special beers brewed by: the hometown San Francisco Brewers Guild, the pack from The Bruery, the Portland sourhouse Cascade, and the fellas from FiftyFifty.

The first video below is brief but shows how Midnight Sun worked with this beer. The second is a virtual tour of the brewery for those (most) of us that will never make it out to Alaska.