Bulkley Valley Broken Arrow Golden Ale

Bulkley Valley Broken Arrow Golden Ale

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Brewed by Bulkley Valley Brewery

Smither, British Columbia, Canada

Style:  Blonde Ale

4.5% Alcohol by Volume

20 International Bittering Units

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Broken Arrow is the military call sign describing an accident with a nuclear weapon. On the eve of Valentine's Day, 1950, an American B-36 bomber-loaded with an atomic bomb, flew into the frozen night on a simulated bombing run from Alaska to San Francisco. The engines failed suddenly and the crew, before parachuting into the rugged terrain of northern British Columbia, set the autopilot to take the aircraft far out to sea. Losing track of the plane, this became the first “Broken Arrow” in History. What does this have to do with our area? While on autopilot, the plane made a loop over the ocean and veered inland to crash onto Kologet Mountain in the Kispiox Valley unbeknownst to everyone. The wreckage was stumbled upon in 1953, and immediately reported. The US Military special task force was thwarted on their first attempt to reach the wreckage. After 19 days in the rugged wilderness they turned back. In 1954 another attempt was launched, this time successful, and they destroyed all visible pieces of the plan that were above the snow. The site was kept a secret for the next 40 years only to be discovered by local intrepid climbers and wayward hikers.