Who are the best Slovenian craft brewers? Brewing has experienced a renaissance in recent years, and more and more people are talking about beer as a gourmet pleasure. If you still don't know where to go on a beer trip, read which 7 breweries can boast the best domestic beer.
To make your beer trips easier, we searched, which are the best Slovenian craft brewers and gathered 7 breweries with the best domestic beer in one place. Which one is your favorite?
The best Slovenian craft brewers:
Pelicon Brewery
The brewery, which in its six years of operation has been awarded the title of the best Slovenian brewery of the year three times with the help of drinkers' votes, located in the heart of the Vipava Valley – they brew unfiltered and unpasteurized beers full of flavor. They are most recognizable by the beer style "india pale ale” called the 3rd Pill.
They say for themselves that in the brewery they are focused on quality and creative development of new recipes, which is also reflected in the many awards they consistently receive.
If you would like to taste Pelicon beer, you can order it directly with them, as they have their own beer distribution in the brewery, and you will also find beer in selected bars.
Pelicon Brewery
Pokomorske 61b 5270
Ajdovščina
Opening Hours: Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday closed. Thursday from 14:00 to 18:00. Friday from 14:00 to 20:00. Saturday from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Green Gold Brewing
Green Gold is a microbrewery hop growing families - the story of the creation of the brewery began 120 years ago, when their ancestors planted the first hops on their home farm. After many years of growing hops, they decided to fly it 2016 is brewed into beer.
It has been since the beginning Luka Rojnik, the owner of the brewery, strived to make beer not just a thirst-quenching drink, but a refined excess. In their beers, they are so intertwined Slovenian tradition and years of brewing experience, which Luka collects at various trainings all over the world.
Slovenian hop varieties play the main roles in the story of Lower Savinia Aurora, Styrian Dragon, Celeia, Bobek, Styrian Wolf and others. Homegrown hops are Green Gold Brewing's mainstay, so you'll be able to taste them in every can, draft, or keg you choose. So be it pale ale, hoppy lager, IPA or something else.
If you would like to taste Green Gold Brewing beer, you can buy it in larger ones supermarkets, otherwise they also offer different ones bars in Slovenia.
HopsBrew Brewery
For the head brewer and owner of Maxim, it is a brewing story started a decade ago in her native Russia – in the beginning it was just a passion for good beer, followed by education and research, which grew into a mission to raise the culture of beer consumption.
However, Maxim's adventurous spirit did not let him rest, so he moved his brewing ambitions to Slovenia together with his family. To the satisfaction of beer lovers, the master of the traditional mixing of ingredients always tries to season his brews with flat the right touch of creativity, that the final sales assortment is always exceptional.
Due to the wide range and attractive taste, it is possible to get microbrewery products in many varieties recognized pubs, as well as in others restaurants.
HumanFish Brewery
They say they are cannon fur at the front of the Slovenian and European craft beer revolution. Namely, we produce several traditional, "session" and special beers, which are sold on the Slovenian market. They always have three types of beer in stock (pale ale, stout, india pale ale), plus a seasonal one (German doppel beck, Belgian wheat, Irish red).
They are one of the few breweries that, as part of their operations, they also offer guided tours of the brewery, where they teach you about brewing HumanFish beer in about an hour. You will also get to taste three or four different types of beer, and at the same time you will get to know something historical and contemporary views on this drink.
HumanFish beer can buy at the company bar, where, as they say, is the best place to enjoy their beer, and they are also present in restaurants.
HumanFish Brewery
Trieste 27
Vrhnika
Opening Hours: Monday to Thursday from 14:00 to 22:00, Friday from 14:00 to 24:00, Saturday from 10:00 to 24:00 and Sunday from 10:00 to 22:00.
Lobik Brewery
The story of the Lobik brewery begins with rowing training and four mullets, aged between 15 and 17, who they couldn't buy beer. So they decided to be one cooked by ourselves. After years of hard work, they opened their own brewery in 2016, which quickly became one of the best in its region.
As they say for themselves, their goal is to make beer that carries a slightly higher percentage of alcohol and it's a little bit more complex flavors. They offer regular beers, special beers and the cathedral series, which means that beer lovers will finally come to their (beer) heaven.
If you would like to taste the beer of the Lobik Brewery, say hi to them at home address, otherwise their beer is also available in different ones bars in Slovenia.
Lobik Brewery
Factory c. 51
It's ruining
Opening Hours: Friday from 18:00 to 00:00.
Kraft brewery Tektonik
When they talk about beer in the Tektonik brewery, they become deadly serious. They perceive the beers they want to offer to drinkers as a top culinary and entertainment event, which is why they are constantly looking for new recipes and the highest quality raw materials from renowned global producers.
Their beers are rooted in tradition Belgians, German ones and English ones brewing practices. Tektonik's more famous craft beers include Hercule Witbier, Nelson India Black Ale, Wayne Pale Ale, etc., and you can find them in supermarkets and in hospitality bars around Slovenia.
Reservoir Dogs Brewery
Life is a deadly disease and you should spend it in style! Well, at least that's what the brewery thinks Reservoir Dogs. And it is for this reason that they created their own brewery, with which they satisfy their passion for craft beer.
It all started as a hobby. And although production today technically and technologically sophisticated, beers are still pure kraft, which leaves the door wide open to creativity and new ideas. They have in the offer 16 beers, otherwise this is another one of those breweries you can go to tour and beer tasting, which they weld.
If you would like to taste Tektonik beer, you can buy it in their taprooms and larger ones supermarkets, otherwise they also offer different ones bars in Slovenia.
Reservoir Dogs Brewery
Industrial Road 1H
Nova Gorica
Opening Hours: Monday closed. From Tuesday to Thursday from 16:00 to 23:00. Friday from 16:00 to 1:00. Saturday from 15:00 to 1:00. Sunday from 15:00 to 22:00.
Other best Slovenian craft brewers:
Barut Brewery, Kamnik
Taproom Mali Grad, Kamnik
LOO-BLAH-NAH Brewery, Ljubljana
Valjhun Brewery, Trebnje (Velika Loka)
Pivovarnsa Bevog, Austria (the beer is made by a Slovenian team)
Ressel Brewery, Kostanjevica na Krka
