Home Brewery / Nano Brewery
Cornel and Brian have been friends for over 15 years and work at the same company. They have been brewing tasty basement Homebrews for well over 10 years. It all started with a Mr. They've had many tasty beers over the years. Their favorite and most loved has to be the Dirty Blonde. Only ever brewed for the KC Nanobrew Festival, it's quite a tasty treat. Blackberries s
teeped in a lushiss Belgian Golden Blonde Ale is everything you'd hope it would be and more. Other favorites include: The Flying Blind IPA (a Deschutes Fresh Squeezed offshoot), The Black Steer's Tookus IPA (an amazingly smooth Black IPA), The new on the books Elderflower Honey Cream Ale (great name soon to come). We enjoy German style beers a great deal and several Irish beers (Guinness and Harp), a nice Belgian Blonde always has a spot on our list, we don't discriminate on most beers, but a few are certainty avoided. You know the ones. We've been to Germany for Oktoberfest twice and have hit up Hermann, Mo for Oktoberfest every other year for the last 10 years. Tin Mill makes a great Oktoberfest, to be sure. We've drank straight from the Guinness teat in Dublin, as well. That was a great trip. We travel a lot for our more active Hobby, Hiking, and always try to seek out the local pubs for the beers, the atmosphere, and to discover other people's thoughts on that great libation, beer. We've hiked the Inca trail to Machu Picchu, had a nice beer at the top of the mountain along the way (sucked lugging those things up the mountain, but we were the envy of all the other hikers while we relaxed at the top sipping our treasures) and strangely enough, at the Machu Picchu bar. Cusqueña Dorado (Golden Lager) and Pilsen Callao (German style pilsner) were both very refreshing. We've hiked through Highlands of Scottland and had many of their great beers along the way, not to mention a few, more than a few, Scotches. Belhaven (founded in 1719!!!!) has some great scotch ales. Belhaven Best (Bitter) and 80 schilling (Scottish Ale) and the Wee Heavy (Wee Heavy Scotch Ale) are great great beers. We've hiked the Laugavegur Trail in Iceland, from Landmannalaugar to Thorsmork. There were some brutal days on that one. Iceland has an interesting history with beer, you thought our Prohibition was bad? There's lasted until 1989 for strong beer...That's anything over 2.25% folks! It's an interesting story, if you like that kind of stuff. Needless to say, their craft beers are in an early stage. So, can you guess what a beer made from locally sourced volcanic island water tastes like? Yup, the devil. Ask Cornel, next time you see him, what a burp tastes like after a few sips of the local concoctions. Not all their beers are devil, most likely just a few. Craft beers are on the rise there and they are eager to make up for lost time...there are some good ones for sure. Bríó (a Pilsner) and Úlfur (a IPA) and the Kaldi and Kaldi Dark (a pilsner). If you take a tour of Olgerdin Brewery (Gull, Jolabjor, to name a couple), you'll sit in a room and not sip, but drink, every beer they offer. They'll tell you great stories of the history of beer and the brewery in Iceland, and you won't remember any of it and have to google it when you get home. Again, interesting story. To name a few places....
