Evil Twin Brewing (New York, USA)

Evil Twin Brewing is the creation of Jeppe Jarnit-Bjergsø, who started the brewing company in 2010. Jeppe is a Dane born and raised in Denmark but who felt that the brewing landscape in Denmark was not big enough for him and his brother Mikkel Borg-Bjergsø, co-founder of Mikkeler, another world-renowned brewing company, so he re-located to New York City in 2012, where he continued to build Evil Twin Brewing into the titan that it is today.

Evil Twin is different to most other brewers in the world as it brews in up to ten different facilities that it does not own. This sort of brewing is called contract or gypsy brewing and it allows the brewer to concentrate on recipes and execution rather than managing an actual brewery. The brewer behind Evil Twin always felt that his good intentions to disturb, disorder and enlighten you with unforgettable beer after beer could be better attained by contract brewing. Finally, after more than a decade of brewing in different locations around the world, mostly in Belgium, Denmark and Connecticut (US), Evil Twin is in the process of finishing off its own brewing facility in Ridgewood, New York. In its own facility, Evil Twin will continue to try and please its audience with delicate, funky, extreme and by all means rare flavours. Sipping on an Evil Twin is always an experience!

Some notable facts about Evil Twin Brewing are:

It launched more than 20 different beers in 2016, that’s *slightly* more than industrial and conventional brewers which normally concentrate on a two or three beers that they continue to produce for decades and decades!!
Voted 7th best brewer in the face of planet earth by RateBeer.com in 2015
Evil Twin beers can be found at top Michelin starred restaurants like The Nomad, Momufoku, The Fat Duck, Eleven Madison, Blanca, Noma in Denmark and many more.
Is considered amongst the absolute elite in the world according to medias like Beer Advocate, RateBeer and Untappd.
Jeppe writes a travel/food and beer blog for Munchies/Vice.com and also released “Food & Beer” a book about pairing beer with food by published Phaidon.
Jeppe also started the famous beer bottleshop Ølbutikken’ in Copenhagen 2005. The shop was voted ‘Best in the world’ by RateBeer in 2007.
In collaboration with Brussels-based ‘Cantillion’ makes a lambic under the name ‘Blåbær Lambik’ (blueberry lambic) - the beer is so famous and sought after that you have to pay up to $500 online to get it.