It started with a trip to Germany, and at the Hofbräuhaus in Munich, Jack Hendler had his first taste of an authentic dunkel lager and was smitten.
“It’s one of those beer styles that I’ve always appreciated and look back at for inspiration. I think the style got lost in the shuffle of what people associate with lagers,” he says.
The perception has changed in the past 7 years since the brewery opened. In the beginning, beer tourists would come in, see that the brewery served only lagers, and want to turn right around because they had an idea that they didn’t like lager overall, when it was really more that they didn’t care for the light mass-produced landscape that was long associated with drinking in the United States.