Our history

"Outside we have the yard and the beautiful Norwegian houses. Inside you will find the warmth and hospitality that makes you "intoxicated."

"Housewife Aud Melås changed positions from a promising career in finance as a bank manager in a Japanese commercial bank in the USA to focus on a new industry in a fjord village deep in the Sognefjord. The couple saw the potential for success based on tradition, culture and quality linked to the tourism industry. Along for the journey to Flåm Aud had brought with her the Vestlandet edition of Ægir , the head brewer himself, her husband Evan Lewis, with a diploma in brewing from the Scandinavian Brewing School in Copenhagen.

The journey to the microbrewery, banquet hall and associated hotel began when the non-beer-drinking and rather stuffy bank manager and businesswoman from Leikanger, with her hair done up and high-heeled shoes, met the long-haired musician and beer brewer Evan Lewis from Rochester, New York. Initially, they weren't the right type for each other, but when the two started working together, it didn´t take long before the brewery began to take shape and develop quality, and is now a major venture in Flåm.

She has kept her business acumen, but the Aud Melås I met in Flåm is as far from a stuffy businesswoman as one can imagine: We met the most colorful, generous and cheerful Frøya imaginable, who in all her hospitality led us into Ægir "his sensory world, with the brewer himself, Evan, by his side, offering the most delightful aromas and the most seductive flavors in the many versions of the Godly Drink he produces in the traditional fjord village."

Excerpt from the newspaper Nordhordaland, text by Hans Atle Svenheim