Our history

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

"Housewife Aud Melås switched 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. On the journey to Flåm , Aud was accompanied by the Western Norway edition of Ægir, the head brewer himself, her husband Evan Lewis, who holds a diploma from the Scandinavian School of Brewing 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 up her business, but the Aud Melås I met in Flåm is as far from a stuffy businesswoman as you can imagine: We met the most colorful, generous and humorous Frøya imaginable, who in all her hospitality led us into Ægir 's sensory world, with the brewer himself, Evan, by her side, offering the most delicious scents and the most seductive tastes in the many editions of the God's drink he produces in the traditional fjord village."

Excerpt from Avisa Nordhordaland, text Hans Atle Svenheim