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Tally's take
The character
Brewing above the treeline, in a territory with no roads connecting it to anywhere. Every grain of malt arrives by sealift or air freight, and in a jurisdiction with a long and complicated relationship to alcohol, a local brewery is a genuinely deliberate act rather than an obvious business. The northernmost entry in this archive.
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Counts here are the length of this list, not an estimate. For why a brewery you know might be missing — closures, shared roofs, contract brands, ownership exclusions — see how we count.