Sandefjord Mat & Øl Festival

Hello Sandefjord!

For the inaugural Sandefjord Mat and Øl festival Reins powered down in the Reinswagon 2. Not knowing what to expect we packed the van pretty full. Taking 7 different kegged beers.

Awesome response, the Sandefjord people were very friendly and interested in craft beer. Several members of the community were extremely helpful and passionate. Shout-Out to Morten Uthaug whom vouched that our beer was good to his friend at Sandar Handverksbryggeri and tap room here in town, they immediately bought 5 kegs! Awesome!

Also we had some super fans, one a self described tuborg only drinker posted on our Facebook saying some very nice things about our Gone with the Lime beer. Another, a representative of the local bottle shop was extremely impressed with our Lakris beer and made sure we got our bottles in their shop! Overall, the collaborative spirit and friendly people of Sandefjord really impressed me.

The food festival itself was quite fun. Lots of great food, in particular the Vegetarian pizza from our neighbor SAAL FOOD TRUCK was quite unique with fresh new flavor combinations. 10/10!

Also, good to see our friends at Færder again and meet new breweries.

Recommendation: SAAL FOOD TRUCK

What: VEGETARIAN PIZZA

Barley, Cheese, Tomato, Artichoke, Aubergine, Basil, Chickpeas, and Red Pickled Onions.

The barley not only is a great brewing ingredient but the texture and flavor gives the cheese an extremely good textural boost, combined with the acidity of hand pickled red onions and the aldente chickpeas served in a piping hot pizza with a medley of veggies, you have a clear winner. Even from this meat eating Brewer!

Local Beer Guru: Lena

Lena recently won Brewdog’s contest for world’s geekiest beer nerd. So she definitely is a wealth of knowledge on beer. Quite the cool Instagram profile too! Check her out, was fun to meet her and serve up some glasses of my Lakris Melkshake Stout which seemed to be a hit!

Oh oh! And she works at the local bottle shop and collaborates with the local breweries! Rad.