Record summer for beer from microbreweries – NRK

The overall growth in beer sales was 8.6 per cent in the same period, writes E24.

– This is the “all time high” for the summer. Although July was better this year, although one had two selling days less than last year, says Petter Nome in brewing and beverage association said.

Dobler production

One of micro-breweries that have been noticing good sales this summer is Hunsfoss brewery in Vennesla in Vest-Agder. Five comrades began seven months ago.

– We have had mean a great start and sold well over expected, says Rune Reinertsen NRK.

The comrades had a goal to produce 12,000 liters of beer in the first year. They have already passed the 21,000 liters.

Petter Nome in brewing and beverage association says this summer is “all time high”.

Photo: Erlend Aas / Scanpix

Now they will double production, making it more automated machinery and considering hiring a person in a permanent position, because hobby project becomes too large. So far friends and family lined up and working volunteers.

– In one brewing tapped 3,000 bottles by hand. One and a bottle cork and get fucked label, so we have evidence to say that this is good craftsmanship, says Reinertsen and tells me that bottling takes 8-10 hours.

Local enthusiasm

Petter Nome believes the trend of beer from small producers is no longer just something for those with a great interest in beer.

– Norway is a strange country. When a trend first turn through, then turn it through the whole community, and not just in a niche. Man has never sold so much beer from microbreweries now, says Nome.

Reinertsen at Hunsfoss brewery think that the many small breweries have success just because they have local roots.

– The get a strong support from the local community, people get beer at a festival or local store and they know people who are behind, he said.

Although the interest in beer in general has increased in recent years, he stressed that a great taste experience needed to succeed.

Even with the close proximity to Kristiansand, they sell twice as much beer home in Vennesla.

proud brewery gang in front of his creative faucet in a sprinkler from the abandoned mill in Vennesla.

Photo: Per-Kaare Sandbakk / NRK