![]() ![]() The curation of Instagram is not as organic as it looks-Fentie puts significant time and effort into both the images and the text-but has a knack for making it look effortless. On a trip to Omnipollo’s packaging warehouse about 30 minutes away, I watched workers on a busy canning shift patiently make way for Fentie as he took hundreds of photos, built and deconstructed whole still lifes on the machinery, and captured shot after shot of the beers mid-pour. You don’t make a beer like Brownie Marshmallow Peanut Ice Cream Macaroon Maple-Glazed Bacon IPA-served as a smoked bacon banana ice cream bourbon peanut butter freakshake-by mistake, or without a robust sense of humor. Until that point, Omnipollo had never actually produced its own beer, instead brewing collaborations and contracting recipes to others, including Dugges Bryggeri in Gothenburg, Sweden De Proefbrouwerij in Belgium and Buxton Brewery in England.Īs the beers and the photos became more baroque, they took on a feeling of postmodern absurdity, one that was entirely self-aware and always a little mischievous. The brewery moved into the 100-year-old church in Sundbyberg, Stockholm at the height of the pandemic, and has only just settled on a method for brewing the giant, heavily adjuncted Pastry Stouts that made its name. He and his brewing team are still “dialing in” the beers at the Kyrka, he explains. Behind us, a spotless BrauKon kit gleams under spotlights, but we’re further towards the chancel, in the shadows of 10 two-story fermenters that reach right up to the mezzanine taproom.įentie seems a little nervous, or maybe just excited to finally play host at his own brewery. ![]() Above us, a projected image of Omnipollo’s iconic smiley-face roundel, tongue at a jaunty angle, shimmers, pretty much exactly where a cross might hang. Omnipollo’s co-founder Henok Fentie and I are standing in the brewery’s newly opened brick-and-mortar headquarters, right where the church’s aisle would have been-the route for weddings, funerals, baptisms. From Barons to Barrels with Captain Pabst.Message in a Bottle with Brewery Ommegang.Beer is Labor with East Brother Beer Co.Let Go or Get Dragged by Jerard Fagerberg.Ferments at Low Temps by Stephanie Byce.
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