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Category: Brewery

A micro-brewery in a small town called Cotacachi.

Roger reaching for Malena under a water fall.

Hermits no more

Posted on January 6, 2020January 29, 2020

It was a crazy 2019! We had this blog post drafted last year and never posted it. Better late than never! First Keg event at home So as Roger started ripping apart the mini-fridge for a kegerator, he made space inside for our very first keg. EVER. It was an experimental Saison-like-thing Roger had played…

Roger and Seth standing withe beer bottles in front of Athena Homebrew bar.

Beer Love Continues

Posted on May 24, 2019December 5, 2020

A few months back we went to Colombia on vacation. We had an amazing time. Hopefully sometime soon we will have a chance to write up a post about that. Here is a sneek into what went down: View this post on Instagram A typical picture of us. We found a tienda in Las Flores…

Make it tasty. All else is secondary.

Posted on July 23, 2018October 29, 2018

World Cup Fire Drill Fishing Excursion The tournament of Stop Drop and Roll is finally over! So we’ve been catching the games online, and it’s been…. hard to stay focused on anything else. It’s been exciting. Some serious craziness and unexpected excitement and disappointment. Especially watching countries like Croatia and Belgium take all the big…

Athena Homebrew…. coming soon!

Posted on June 7, 2018October 29, 2018

Main construction finally done! So the brewery space is finally done! No more crew to feed everyday! We are pretty happy with how it turned out. Tiles are pretty, paint is nice and bloody expensive. The reason it IS so bloody expensive is that it’s a government mandated epoxy paint for food safety and necessary…

Realizations and Ambitions

Posted on May 15, 2018October 29, 2018

The hostel building is nearly done, but we delayed proceeding because we decided to finish up the brewery so we didn’t have construction while we had guests. So this is basically construction phase 2. Slowly but surely we’re getting everything into place. It’s nice to see it however slowly. Being our own project managers We…

Sense of Purpose, and Grass

Posted on March 13, 2018October 29, 2018

We’ve been here for over a year now!! It’s hard to believe it’s already been over one year since we’ve been here. Last year around this time we were finally getting our container delivered to our house. Which meant finally getting a fridge and other things we took for granted after living without them for…

A Flammable Holiday Season

Posted on January 4, 2018October 29, 2018

Christmas involved weeks of street parades, firecrackers, and rain. On Christmas eve there was a pretty impressive towercastlethingy made entirely of flammable rope, bamboo and what we thought were strings of Christmas lights. All of it connected to various points of fireworks that was lit by a dude’s cigarette, exploding out, creating unique shapes or…

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