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 the age of about 15. Idar restored Bruatunet, which is where the extra brewday for the Brewing+festival tickets is held. That’s also the brewhouse he uses for his own beers.

The farm of Nygård used to have its own kveik, but it died out, so Idar has mixed a new kveik from various other kveiks from Hornindal. Now he brews with this kveik. His beer is a pure raw ale kornøl.