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Speaker: Jan Steensels

We are very happy to announce that Jan Steensels, a researcher at the VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology, will be doing a talk on farmhouse yeast at this year’s festival. Jan is part of the …

Hotel rooms and bus tickets

We have now put on sale hotel rooms on Tikkio , as well as tickets for the bus from the airport to Hornindal, for people arriving by plane. Details on the bus schedule are here , as well as more …

2025 Results

This year 60 beers participated in the judges competition, more than ever before. 8 judges were at work to judge the beers, and we also had a people’s favorite. New this year was the award for …

Demo Brewer: Øystein Menes

This year’s demonstration brewer is Øystein Menes, from Førde in Sunnfjord. He learned to brew from his uncle from Framfjorden, near Vik in Sogn, so he brews in the Sogn tradition. He has …

Speaker: Lars Marius Garshol

Lars Marius Garshol will be doing a talk at the festival on the subject of whether people once drank beer against thirst every day. Most people have heard that “people used to drink beer …

Speaker: Xavi Tortosa

Xavi Tortosa is a commercial brewer with a scientific background who has an interest in farmhouse ale. He’s lived in Latvia for a few years, and has studied the farmhouse brewing in Latvia, as …

Speaker: Geir Grønnesby

Geir Grønnesby is a well-known name for everyone interested in brewing stones. He is an archaeologist at NTNU Science Museum in Trondheim and has conducted several excavations of brewing stones and …

Speaker: Christina Wade

Christina Wade will be speaking at this year’s festival. She has a doctorate in history, and has been active as a beer blogger and podcaster for a long time. She’s also an author. Last …

Easy travel to the festival

This year we’re making it easy to get to the festival, because you can buy everything you need directly from the festival on Tikkio . We now sell: Double rooms at Havila Hotel Raftevold with …

Winners of the 2024 judges competition

This year we had 59 beers in the judges competition. We therefore had 8 judges and focused on a combination of local experts on traditional beer combined with trained judges with experience from …

The county and beer cultural heritage

Arve Eiken Nytun is an archaeologist at Møre and Romsdal county council, and will speak about what the county can do for beer brewing cultural heritage. This includes preservation, research, and …

Kornølfestival dinner

As part of the Norwegian Kornøl Festival, a festival dinner will be held at Raftevold Hotel on Saturday, October 5th at 6:30 PM. This event was a huge success when it was first held in 2023. This year …

Speaker: Terje Aass

Terje Aass adding yeast to a traditional homebrew from Hardanger. Terje Aass is well known as the former director of Aass Brewery in Drammen. After retiring as director, he has been an enthusiastic …

Göran Winarve is this year's demo brewer

Of the well-known styles of farmhouse ale, gotlandsdricke is perhaps the hardest to actually find, even though it comes from our closest neighboring country. We are very pleased to have Göran Winarve …

Talk by Richard Preiss

Many of you are familiar with Richard Preiss, who was at the festival in 2017, and has done breakthrough work on farmhouse yeast. Now he’s returning to the festival to talk about his latest …

A brewing day for women

The festival’s purpose is to pass on the brewing tradition to the next generation, but we’re a bit concerned that it’s mostly men who brew. That’s why we’re arranging a …

The festival needs volunteers

To run the festival, we are completely dependent on the volunteers who work to keep the festival running. We need volunteers who can work at the door, help in the kitchen, and be cleaning crew. …

Guided mountain hike

View from the cabin during last year’s festival. If you want to see a little of the nature around Hornindal we recommend joining this guided hike, which will take you up to Nakkebruna, a public …

"Viking beer" by Lars Marius Garshol

Lars Marius Garshol is a familiar figure to visitors to the festival, having been at every single festival. (This talk will be in English.) He will talk about the vikings and their beer, giving us a …

Lecture by Nadia Marlen Aasen

Nadia Aasen holds a master’s degree in food science and wrote her master’s thesis on beer brewing with kveik in 2020. In her thesis, she used kveik that was collected at the corn beer …

Speaker: Geir Thomas Risåsen

Geir Thomas Risåsen is a conservator at the Norwegian Museum of Cultural Heritage. He has worked with cultural heritage preservation for several decades and published numerous books. He is coming to …

Take the boat to Hornindal

Read more about the trip here: /nyheter/2024-05-02-take-the-boat-to-hornindal-2/ Tickets available: https://tikkio.com/tickets/43681-norsk-kornolfestival-2024

Take the boat to Hornindal

Are you wondering how to get to the festival or just planning to see more of the beautiful fjords of Norway during the visit? Fjord intersection where Hjørundfjord splits into a separate fjord arm …

Winner of the People's Choice Award 2023

Everyone who comes to the festival gets a ballot they can use to vote for a beer. The judges count the votes and announce a winner. This year’s winner went to Olav Sverre Gausemel with an …

Winners of the Judges Competition 2023

This year’s judges competition was particularly difficult to judge because the level of the participating beers was very high. There were many good beers that performed well. This year we had 8 …

Breweries: Voss Bryggeri and Voss Fellesbryggeri team up

Voss Bryggeri and Voss Fellesbryggeri brew beer that is mainly based on kveik from Voss. In addition, they have also brought ciders made with kveik this year. They have brought an impressive list of …

Sponsor: Jernia Ørsta

We thank Jernia Ørsta , which has sponsored the festival with prizes for the winners. Jernia Ørsta is not just a hardware store, but also sells brewing ingredients and equipment.

Sponsor: Brewshop

Brewshop has been so kind as to sponsor us with gift cards for the competition winners, and we are very grateful for that. Brewshop is a leading online shop for homebrewing, with free shipping on …

Sponsor: GRS Riflestocks

We’re lucky to have GRS Riflestocks as sponsors for this year’s festival. They’ve donated one of their high-quality, super-ergonomic riflestocks to be the first prize of the home …

Brewery: Eik & Tid makes their yearly pilgrimage to Kornølfestivalen

Traditional brewing is a prerequisite for Eik & Tid’s very existence, and Kornølfestivalen is their yearly pilgrimage. They are looking forward to Norway’s most important beer …

Brewery: No Kornølfestival without Bygland Bryggeri

Bygland Brewery from Setesdal should be familiar to most people who have attended Norsk Kornølfestival before. The brewery is known for producing the majority of their beers with kveik, often in …

Bryggeri: Kinn bryggeri kommer med spennende utvalg øl!

Kinn Brewery is a craft beer brewery from Florø in Norway. It was started by Espen Lothe in 2009. The brewery focuses on traditional and classical beer styles with inspiration from Belgium and …

Talk: Kjell Arne Bjørdal

Kjell Arne Bjørdal receiving the prize for best beer in 2021. Kjell Arne Bjørdal will be doing a talk about traditional farmhouse brewing, for those who want an introduction to it. He comes from …

Talk: Hans Geir Eiken and Atle Ove Martinussen

Atle Ove Martinussen (left) and Hans Geir Eiken searching for kveik. Hans Geir Eiken from NIBIO and Atle Ove Martinussen from the Western Norway Cultural Academy will be coming to the festival to …

Talk by Lars Marius Garshol

Lars Marius Garshol will be doing a talk at the festival based on his new book (in Norwegian). The talk will describe some new discoveries about how beer was brewed in Norway, and about the early …

Demo Brewer: Jørund Geving

Jørund Geving in viking costume This year’s demo brewer will be Jørund Geving, who is going to demonstrate how stjørdalsøl is brewed. Whether he’ll show up in viking costume this year is …

Talk: David Bea Castaño on Prehistoric Beer

Photo: ©Pep Escoda David Bea Castaño will be coming to the festival to do a talk on prehistoric beers in southern Europe. His focus will be the area between the Alps and the Mediterranean. David Bea …

We Need Volunteers!

To make the festival happen, we depend on volunteers who help out with ticket sales at the door, security, and in the kitchen. If you can help out, we’d be very grateful. Details and sign-up .

Kornølfestmiddag

New on the menu this year is that we will serve Sosakjøtt together with two different types of konnjøl. This is traditional western Norwegian food at its finest. The side dishes are also classic with …

Talk: Pekka Kääriäinen

Pekka Kääriäinen. Pekka Kääriäinen from Finland will be at the festival to do a talk on sahti. Pekka founded the first commercial Finnish sahti brewery in 1985, Lammin Sahti , and still runs it …

Bus to the festival from Oslo, Bergen, Trondheim, or Ålesund?

Traveling by bus to Kornølfestivalen can be efficient, comfortable and cheap. E39 passes through Hornindal, but from the larger cities, there are better bus connections to Stryn where Kornølfestivalen …

Do you want to stay at the historic Visnes hotel?

Do you want to stay at the historic hotel Visnes ? Kornølfestivalen is grateful that Visnes Hotel wants to collaborate with us, and we’ve managed to get a good price for our festival …

Talk on Gotlandsdricke

Bernt Nilsson, often known as “Bison”, from Gotland in Sweden will be coming to the kornøl festival to speak about gotlandsdricke. Bernt is originally a foreign correspondent and author, …

Oppskåke nr 2

Oppskåke in 2022. Our tickets to oppskåke have been sold out for a while, but we’ve been able to add 5 more tickets for the oppskåke, and we also created an “Oppskåke nr 2”, a …

Winners of the Judging Competition 2022

The homebrews served at the festival were evaluated by a judging committee, who selected their favorites and crowned the year’s Norwegian champion in corn beer brewing. The committee consisted …

Winners of the Popular Choice 2022

Everyone who comes to the festival gets a ballot they can use to vote for one beer. The judges count the votes and crown the three that received the most votes as winners. 2nd place: Morgedal Susle- …

Sponsor: Jernia Ørsta

We thank Jernia Ørsta , which has sponsored the festival with prizes for the winners. Jernia Ørsta is not just a hardware store, but also sells brewing ingredients and equipment.

Sponsor: Brewshop

Brewshop has kindly sponsored us with gift cards for the competition winners, and we’re very grateful for that. Brewshop is a leading online store for beer brewing, with free shipping on orders …

Sponsor: GRS Riflestocks

We’re lucky to have GRS Riflestocks as sponsors for this year’s festival. They’ve donated one of their high-quality super-ergonomic riflestocks to be the first prize of the home …

Streaming from the festival

Bård with a glass of beer. Bård Romar Håveid, the blogger behind Huldrevatn and Northern Route will be covering the festival live in both Norwegian and English. He’ll be posting on Instagram at …

Demo brewers from Telemark: Halvor & Terje

Terje Haugen making juniper infusion. This year’s demo brewers who will be brewing a beer in the hall is Halvor Bjåland and Terje Haugen from Morgedal in Telemark. Since they are from eastern …

We Need Volunteers!

To make the festival happen, we depend on volunteers who help out with ticket sales at the door, security, and in the kitchen. If you can help out, we’d be very grateful. Details and sign-up …

Talk by Mika Laitinen

Mika Laitinen will be doing a talk at the festival this year. This time about “Taari, Karelian Farmhouse Ale”, a type of farmhouse ale that used to be brewed in Karelia (eastern Finland) …

Olu Bryki Raum

The Finnish brewery Olu Bryki Raum will be attending the festival. They are a commercial brewery dedicated to traditional Finnish farmhouse ales, brewing variations of sahti from different Finnish …

Talk on Kveik Research

Lars Marius Garshol will be giving a talk on recent advances in kveik research. The talk will cover new findings on what makes kveik behave the way it does, as well as news about what has actually …

Foredrag om vikingenes øl

Vi har vært så heldige å få Karoline Kjesrud til å komme på festivalen og snakke om vikingenes øl. Karoline Kjesrud er førsteamanuensis ved Arkeologisk seksjon ved Universitetet i Oslo. Hun har …

The festival board 2022

We’ve made it into a tradition to present each year’s board before the festival, so people know who is organizing this. The festival is formally organized as a “forening” , …

Take the boat to Hornindal!

MS Bruvik. This year (2023) it’s possible to take a guided boat tour to the festival on Thursday October 5, the day before the festival starts. The boat goes from Ålesund harbour to Øye, and …

Speaker: Jeff Alworth

Jeff Alworth. Jeff Alworth will be coming to the festival to do a talk he’s titled “The Norwegian Farmhouse Tradition is a Lot More Than Kveik Yeast”. It’s about how the …

Guided Tour of Hornindal Mølle

The mill. On Saturday there will be a guided tour of Hornindal mølle, not far from the festival hall. The mill was built in the 1920s, and was used by the farmers in the valley for drying grain and …

Results - Norwegian Championship in Corn Beer 2021

The judging committee at work. This year there were 41 beers in the competition, and the judges worked hard to evaluate them. In fact, they worked so hard that they didn’t finish until well …

Results - Popular Choice

Olav Sverre Gausemel receives the first prize. The audience voted on their favorite beers, and the results were as follows. 1st place: Olav Sverre Gausemel, Konnjøl (beer #1) Prize: Gift card worth …

Live stream Friday

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Remember warm clothes!

Gro-parken The Gro building has a park outside, and we’re planning to have various activities there. There will be two tents with tables outside where people can sit if they want to. In …

Sponsor: Enivest

Enivest has sponsored us with internet on the brewing in the farmhouse Friday morning, and we’re very glad about that. This also allows us to do live-streaming of the brewing there.

Sponsor: GRS Riflestocks

https://www.grsriflestocks.com/ GRS Riflestocks has kindly sponsored us with the first prize in the Norwegian Championship in Corn Beer: a rifle stock. GRS started in 1983 as a furniture manufacturer …

Sponsor: Brewshop

Brewshop has kindly sponsored us with three gift cards for the winners of the various competitions, and we’re very grateful for that. Brewshop is a leading online store for beer brewing, with …

Lecture: Atle Ove Martinussen on the UNESCO application

Atle Ove Martinussen (left), on yeast hunting at Selland farm, Voss. Atle Ove is CEO of Vestnorsk Kulturakademi , which is working on an application to UNESCO to get Norwegian traditional brewing …

The hotel is closed!

We have been informed that the hotel in Hornindal is closed due to sewage problems, so nobody will be able to stay there during the festival. We apologize for this, but it is completely beyond our …

Lecture on prehistoric beer

Lars Marius Garshol will give a lecture at the festival about prehistoric beer. Usually such lectures are about beer brewing in Mesopotamia and Egypt, but this lecture is based on new research in …

4 new spots for homebrewers

We’ve been a bit cautious this year about opening up for homebrewers, since Gro-salen is smaller than the old hall, and we had rather few judges. But now we feel quite confident that we can …

Lecture on Vossaøl by Sjur Rørlien

Sjur Rørlien while brewing in the traditional farmstead brewery at Voss. We’re very pleased to have arranged a lecture on brewing Vossaøl with Sjur Rørlien. Sjur grew up right in the heart of …

The board 2021

The festival is formally organized as a “forening” , which is strictly non-profit. All the festival’s income goes to arranging the festival, and the board members get no pay, …

Sponsor: Oslo Business Memo

We will have live streaming of the festival this year, and Oslo Business Memo has stepped up as a collaboration partner and is producing the live broadcast from the festival. OBM’s streaming …

Festival in Gro-salen

Inside Gro-salen, with a view over the park and Hornindalsvannet. This year’s festival will be a bit smaller due to corona, and so we’ve decided to hold it in Gro-salen. This is a new …

Digital festival

Most of our foreign friends won’t be able to make it to the festival this year, but despair not: there will be a digital festival this year, too. We’ve been very fortunate in that …

Oppskåke

Friday 1. October 19.00-23.00 This year the Corn Beer Festival will have an extra event for those who want to experience an Oppskåke in the traditional way! In the old days, people would invite …

Lecture on stjørdalsøl

Jørund at work in the malthouse. On Friday at 21:00, Jørund Geving will give a lecture about stjørdalsøl, with the title “Stjørdalsølet - from grain to finished drink.” As you can hear, …

We need volunteers!

To run the festival, we are completely dependent on volunteers. If you’re interested in helping us, you can find more information on the volunteers page . There’s also a link to sign up …

Festival in 2021!

There will be a kornøl festival in 2021! Everything is a bit uncertain due to the pandemic, but we’re trying to arrange both a physical festival in Hornindal and a digital festival online. There …

Slides from Mohammed Tawfeeq's talk

Mohammed getting ready to talk The slides from Mohammed Tawfeeq’s talk on his kveik research are now available for download below. You can also watch the presentation itself on Youtube. …

Slides from Martin Thibault's talk

As promised, Martin has sent the slides for his talk on farmhouse yeasts from the Andes, Bhutan, and Ethiopia. You can download the slides here: martin-thibault-talk-2020 Last ned He also sent these …

Homebrewer competition results

We finally have the results from the homebrewer competition ready. 1. Jørund Geving, stjørdalsøl with Idun Blå The happy winner. Jørund Geving from Stjørdal well-deserved won with his stjørdalsøl …

Thanks to Our Sponsors

This year’s festival has no income since it’s free, but we still have some costs. We’re very grateful that Enivest sponsored us with free broadband from the brewhouse in Hornindal. …

Brew #3: Voss

Dag Jørgensen warming his hands in Kjetil Dale’s brewhouse. The third brew we will be showing is going to be in Voss, where Dag Jørgensen and Kjetil Dale will be brewing in Kjetil’s old …

Mika Laitinen showing taari brewing

Mika Laitinen will appear in the festival stream to show how Finnish taari was brewed. Mika is a Finnish author and home-brewer who has written several books on traditional brewing. His most recent …

Brew #2: Stjørdal

Roar’s brewhouse, in a 19th century farmhouse. The second live brew we will be showing is from Stjørdal in central Norway, where Roar Sandodden will be brewing a stjørdalsøl on his farm …

Talk by Martin Thibault

Martin drinking sahti in Hämeenkyrö, Finland. Martin Thibault has been seeking out farmhouse brewers all over the world for almost one decade now. He writes about his finds on his blog , in American …

Brew #1: Hornindal

Festival in 2019, brewing at Odd Seljeset’s house, where this year’s brew in Hornindal will be taking place. During the festival one of the places we’ll be showing brewing from is …

Talk by Mohammed Tawfeeq

Mohammed Tawfeeq, from the Kevin Verstrepen lab at the University of Leuven, will be giving a talk about his research on kveik. Mohammed is a student at the lab which published the Gallone 2016 …

Participants in the Norwegian Kornøl Championship

Since participants must send in their beers in advance, we have compiled an overview of the beers that have arrived for the competition. The list will be updated as more beers arrive. The winners will …

Talk by Sissel Brunstad

Sissel Brunstad will be giving a talk at 1500 during the festival, in Norwegian. Kornøl through the ages - about brewing beer the old-fashioned way. Sissel is from Sykkylven in Sunnmøre, and is a …

The festival board 2020

The festival is formally organized as a “forening” , which is strictly non-profit. All the festival’s income goes to arranging the festival, and the board members get no pay, …

There will be a competition!

There will be no physical festival this year, but there will be a competition for homebrewers. Those who want to participate must send in their ale by mail. See the competition page for more …

Digital festival on October 10!

Since there will be no physical festival this year we’ve decided to arrange a digital alternative on Crowdcast . The festival will be a whole-day digital festival with live brewing, live …

The Festival Goes Digital in 2020

We have concluded that we cannot arrange the festival in Hornindal this year. The risk is just too high, both in terms of government conditions, health, and economically. Sorry! We are working on …

News About the 2020 Festival

We still don’t know if it will be possible to arrange the festival in October. Developments in Norway are very positive so far, but things may change before October. We don’t know if it …

Festival 2020?

Because of the covid-19 epidemic it may turn out to be impossible to arrange the festival in 2020, but October is sufficiently far into the future that we cannot tell for certain yet. So the board has …

Public's favorite results list

Originally it was not intended to publish results for the public’s favorite, but we’ve received so many requests that we’ve decided to publish the top part of the list anyway. Here …

Judges' competition results list

This was a difficult competition to judge, with a full 58 competing ales, and in some cases sky-high quality on the contributions. The judges spent almost four hours to determine the winners. The …

Winners of the 2019 competitions

Here are the winners of the various competitions. The full judges’ report will come as soon as we’ve written it up. All photos: Bjørn Harald Færøvik from Eik&Tid. Winner best kornøl …

Home Brewer: 332 Furnesåsa Kveikeri

Carl Andreas Myrland originally comes from Romsdal, a different region north of Hornindal. He would have loved to show up with a true “romsdalsøl”, but in that area all knowledge of …

Wood Carver Risto Telkkä

Risto Telkkä in his workshop in Finland, just before getting in the car to Hornindal. Risto Telkkä is a Finnish wood carver, who among other things makes traditional wooden drinking vessels. These …

Home Brewer: Eldhusbryggeriet

Arvid Solheim met the farmhouse brewing tradition early in the 1990s, when Dagfinn Wendelbo in Lærdal in Sogn taught him brewing. Dagfinn is the owner of kveik #6 Lærdal. This means Arvid is the only …

Home Brewers: Vasstrond'e Småbryggjarlaug

These brewers come from Voss, high up toward the end of the valley, in Vossestrand. Two of them have made the trip to the festival. Ivar A. Geithung comes from elsewhere and moved to Voss, but …

Home Brewer: Torkjel Austad

Torkjel Austad with juniper twig and traditional Norwegian ale bowl (photo by Martyn Cornell ) Torkjel Austad is going to be busy during this year’s festival, because he’s participating …

Home Brewer: Vidtskue Brygghus

Kasper Andersen, participating under the name of Vidtskue Brygghus, is coming to the festival with a large number of interesting beers. Kasper is originally from Denmark (where the farmhouse brewing …

Highlights of this year's program

We have a lot of exciting beers. Here’s a quick overview of the highlights: Finnish farmhouse ale (sahti), served by Mika Laitinen Estonian farmhouse ale (koduõlu) Keptinis (Lithuanian beer type …

Ringnes Brygghus

The same spot at Grünerløkka where Ringnes brewed their first beer in 1877 is now home to Ringnes Brygghus. With both a microbrewery and a pub, Ringnes Brygghus is the place to meet regardless of …

Brewery: Eik & Tid

Eik & Tid is an unusual brewery, not only because they brew sour beer, but also because they brew only raw ales. In fact, they don’t even have a kettle for boiling the wort. The brewery was …

Thanks to our sponsors!

We are very grateful for the support we’ve gotten from our sponsors, who have contributed prizes for the homebrewers winning the various competitions. Vinbua in Ålesund has sponsored us with …

Talk: Norwegian Kveik Lab

Friday at 1900 there will be a talk (in Norwegian!) about the efforts to start a Norwegian yeast company to sell kveik commercially. The company has not started yet, and will speak about their plans …

Sold Out

The tickets for Brewing+festival and Transport are now sold out. If you need transport between Ålesund airport and the festival, contact us. We may be able to help you. NB! We have one …

Brewery: Rodebak

Painted chest front from Rodebak farm, dated 1840. Rodebak is a brewery started by Carl Christensen on the farm Rodebak (modern spelling “Rotbakken”) in central Norway. The beers: Rodebak …

Home Brewer: Andrus Viil

Andrus Viil (orange jacket) and Aarne Trei (left) serving their koduõlu to Martin Thibault, Amund Arnesen, and Martynas Savickis (mug in hand). Pihtla, Saaremaa, Estonia, summer of 2016. Andrus Viil …

Homebrewer: Terje Raftevold

Terje Raftevold at the festival in 2017. Terje Raftevold comes from Hornindal, but now lives in Innvik, where he still brews traditional kornøl the way he learned from his uncle in Hornindal. Terje …

Brewery: Tonga

Tonga is coming! The brewery is located on the farm with the same name, in Norddal in Sunnmøre, not far from Hornindal. Tonga is the family farm of brewmaster Stein Harald Døving. Norddal has strong …

Homebrewer: Arve Espe

Arve Espe and his wife at the festival in 2018. Arve Espe comes from the farm Espe in Hornindal. He was the youngest of 10 children, so he learned to brew from his older brothers. His beer is a …

Homebrewers: Morgedal Susle- og Ølbryggarlag

Halvor removing foam from the boiling wort. Morgedal 2015. Halvor Bjåland and Terje Haugen will be the only (and first ever!) representatives for the beer culture of eastern Norway at the festival. …

Home brewer: Gunnar Skare

The malt kiln where Gunnar Skare dries his malts. Ørsta. Gunnar Skare comes from Ørsta, about 40 minutes by car from Hornindal. He learned to brew from his father, who in turn learned from his …

Home brewer: Olav Sverre Gausemel

Olav Sverre Gausemel serving his kornøl at the festival in 2016. Olav Sverre Gausemel comes from Hornindal, where he lives right next to the family farm, Gausemel, not far from the festival hall. He …

Home Brewer: Idar Nygård

Idar in his brewhouse at Bruatunet, Hornindal. (Photo by Ståle Raftevold.) Idar comes from Hornindal, where he grew up on the farm Nygård. He learned to brew from his father, and brewed with him from …

Homebrewer: Sigurd Johan Saure

**Sigurd Johan Saure (image from Kveik Training ) Sigurd Johan comes from the farm Tormodgarden in Sykkylven, roughly 85km from Hornindal. Sykkylven is quite close to Ålesund airport. He learned to …

Home brewer: Jørund Geving

Jørund Geving drying malts in Stjørdal, 2017. Jørund Geving is from Stjørdal and brews stjørdalsøl in the traditional way. He is the only representative (among the home brewers) of the brewing …

Home brewer: Lars Andreas Tomasgård

Lars Andreas Tomasgård demonstrating kornøl brewing at the festival in 2016 Lars Andreas Tomasgård is one of the few farmhouse brewers who is also actually a farmer. His farm is Larstunet in …

Geiranger Bryggeri

Geiranger Bryggeri is coming to the festival. They are located in Geiranger, one of the most scenic and famous of all Norwegian fjords, at the inner end of Sunnmøre. They have focused mostly on …

Voss Bryggeri

Voss Bryggeri. Voss Bryggeri was started by three friends in Voss, one of the major centres for Norwegian farmhouse brewing. One of the three founders is a farmhouse brewer himself. They were the …

Brewery: Klostergården

The main building at Klostergården Klostergården Bryggeri is based on the farm with the same name, on the island of Tautra outside Trondheim, near Stjørdal. The family Anderssen runs a pub, …

Brewery: Skifjorden

Skifjorden Bryggeri is coming to the festival! The brewery was started on the family farm of Rolf Risnes, in the outermost part of Sogn, near the sea. They brew a series of kveik-based beers, as well …

Brewery: Bjørnafjorden

Bjørnafjorden Bryggeri is coming to the festival. The brewery is located in Os south of Bergen, and was started by five homebrewing friends. One of them, Tarjei Skeie, grew up in Dyrvedalen in Voss, …

Brewery: Bygland Bryggeri

Bygland Bryggeri is coming to the festival. They are an unusual brewery in that they focus on traditional Norwegian beer and ferment all their beers with kveik. That’s a quite daring strategy, …

Brewery: Nøgne Ø

Nøgne Ø will be at the festival. They are the brewery which kickstarted the Norwegian craft beer revolution when they started in 2004. They’ve been at the forefront of Norwegian brewing since, …

Brewery: Brulandselva

Brulandselva brewery will be coming to the festival. They are an unusual brewery. The main person behind it is Roger Bruland, who has brewed kornøl together with Terje Raftevold from Hornindal. All …

Jochen Förster from Carlsberg on kveik

Jochen pouring himself a beer The Carlsberg Laboratory is one of the leading labs in yeast research world-wide, and researchers there have collected and analyzed several kveik cultures. They isolated …

"Brewing+festival" tickets partly sold out

The guest house at Knausen We have been offering the “Brewing+festival” tickets with accomodation in the hotel, but those are now all sold out. In addition, the brewing session on the …

Sigrid Strætkvern is this year's host

We’ve been very lucky this year and have gotten Sigrid Strætkvern to be our host. Sigrid works for Ringnes, Norway’s biggest brewery, where she has the title “Mood Maker.” She …

About the festival

Norsk Kornølfestival is the only festival (as far as we know) that is dedicated to traditional farmhouse ale. The beginning of the festival was in 2015 when William Holden decided there needed to be a …

Registration for volunteers is now open

We on the board believe that the Norsk Kornølfestival is one of the most important initiatives being done to keep Norwegian traditional farmhouse ale and kveik alive. The festival creates pride among …

Early bird sale ending soon

The early bird sale of festival passes ends in exactly two weeks on August 1, and the price will then go from 500 NOK to 700 NOK. Better to buy now! Tickets here .

Hotellet utsolgt / hotel sold out

Gjestehuset på Knausen / Guest house at Knausen Alle hotellrommene på festivalen er nå utsolgt, så vi går over til å selge andre typer overnatting som erstatning. Vi starter med dobbeltrom i …

Fanitullen

Fiddler Petter Tveiten Veum (Vest-Telemark Museum, CC-BY-SA ) The video from last year’s festival had a piece of violin music in the background. It was not randomly chosen, because last year a …

Cheap accommodation in camping cabins!

The cabins look like this. We’ve added a new type of accommodation through Tikkio : a double room in a four-man cabin at Knausen Hyttegrend. A hotel room costs 1950 NOK, but this is just 900 …

Video from the 2018 festival

Our friends at Ale Apothecary made a video showing some of what happened at the festival in 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6ts28QEAfo

Viking Age Brew

Mika Laitinen’s book on sahti and farmouse ale, Viking Age Brew, was published today. The book covers especially sahti, but also farmhouse ale more generally. It gives a in-depth overview of …

Kåre Frøland to give a talk on hop farming

Kåre Frøland in the hop garden Kåre Frøland is coming to the Kornølfestival to give a talk on hop farming. Kåre runs Fletre Humlehage in Voss, Norway’s only commercial hop producer. He grows …

Camping Tickets Now Available

Camping tickets are now available . If you’re coming with a camping wagon or motor home, you can buy a camping ticket (with or without electricity) and stay on the campground Friday-Saturday of …

Mika Laitinen Is Our Demo Brewer

This year we have invited Mika Laitinen to come and show us how sahti is brewed during the Saturday of the festival. Mika has studied sahti brewing for several years. He has written several books on …

Annual Meeting at Voss

[caption id=“attachment_461” align=“alignnone” width=“525”] The board outside the fireplace at Kjetil Dale’s place on Voss[/caption] The festival board had …

Home Brew Criteria Published

The judges have published the criteria for the two home brewing competitions at the festival: kornøl and innovation with tradition. See the home brewing page for more information.

Home Brewer Sign-Up Is Now Open

We’ve opened sign-up for home brewers who want to serve beer at the festival and participate in the championship. We hope as many as possible will sign up. New this year: free festival admission …

Festival 2019

It’s official! There will be a Norsk Kornølfestival in 2019 as well, October 11-12, at Hornindalshallen. Early bird tickets are now available: Tikkio . We’ll share more details about the …

WEATHER - VÆR

It’s expected to be somewhat colder than in previous years, with snow possible at 7-800 meters above sea level.. I recommend switching to studded tires, and decide for yourself whether you want …

MAP OF THE FESTIVAL AREA 2018

To get a brief overview of the festival area, from the center in the south to the festival in the north.. ( CALL SVERRE LEIVDAL AT 949 82 083….. IMPORTANT ! ) We’re filling up FESTIVAL …

TRADITION BROCHURE

Download it and print it out. (REMEMBER 2 SIDED) reklamefolder2kornølfestival2018-web-vrengt

KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DRINKING

Dear homebrewers and hobby brewers! This year we have a small extra service for you at the beer festival: free analysis of your own beer! :) The guys from Vit Hva Du Drikker will come around and ask …

ALMOST FULL AT THE HOTEL

ALMOST OUT OF HOTEL ROOMS

After big sales of hotel nights, there are now under 10 hotel rooms left. After opening hotel no. 2, Hjørundfjord Hostel on Bjørke, INCLUDING shuttle bus to the festival, there are now fewer hotel …

Newspaper Clippings from 2017

Hello, world!

So you’ve reached the end of the news <3 Now it’s just a matter of buying a ticket HERE , and come to the festival ….