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The Costa Rica Star has previously reported extensively on Craft Beer culture and local beer businesses in Costa Rica.
If you’re a beer drinker and have spent any time in Costa Rica than you know the selection is small. That was, at least, prior to the creation of Perrovida Craft Beer. As new kids in the Costa Rican brew scene, this underdog has come to play. Offering six full bodied, explosive, hand crafted beers. In only a few months they have already achieved an award for the best black IPA with their Massive Mastiff. See their beer list and qualities at the bottom of this article.
The brewery is consisted of three families (pictured below), all of which play an equal part in creating their organic, environmentally friendly hand crafted beer. After the brewing process no longer requires the soaked barley, Perrovida’s team donates it to local farmers to feed their stock. This is one example of practices that aim towards their goal of zero waste.
Perrovida Craft Beer is located in the mountains approximately 20 minutes above Quepos in the majestical Rainmaker park. Their water source is rainforest spring water seen in gorgeous displays of waterfalls and rivers onsite. The locals refer to the area as montaña fantasia (fantasy mountain) believing the water to have magical qualities. The short drive not only rewards you with, arguably, the best beer in Costa Rica, but provides the adventurer in you a chance to hike: through the rainforest, across exciting suspension bridges, along rivers, in waterfall pools, and gaze at the Pacific Coast from a bird’s eye view.
Kyle Kersey, one of the partners of Perrovida Craft Beers shared with me the team’s upcoming goals:
- Obtaining permissions for each of the nearby cantones so that we can get our beer out to restaurants.
- One-liter growler delivery service in Manuel Antonio. (Consider us like the US milk-man or Costa Rican propane tank-man).
- Filling stations. Bring your growler or local 2-liter screw-cap bottles and fill with beer at convenient and highly trafficked areas.
- We plan on attending as many beer festivals as Costa Rica hosts.
- We’d like to produce some of our own events, like a New Year’s event.
- We also plan on jumping into merchandising. We already have a large market for t-shirts and stickers. We have had some challenges getting quality shirts made in the country.
“Our current capacity is relatively low, so we need a good balance between wholesale sales at restaurants and retail sales through our growlers. Filling station is what we see for the future. It’s less waste with the growler, which is real important for us. There are also some sanitizing systems where we can use the screw top plastic bottles to fill up the 2 litter bottles. Reuse materials that otherwise would be thrown to garbage.”
Perrovida Craft Beer List
“These beers are American-style IPA’s, which stands for India Pale Ale. India Pale Ale implies that the beers contain extra hops (lupulos) which became popular when the British Navy had to send beer to their locations in India. Hops act as a flavoring, aroma and bittering agent and overall are a beautiful combination with all grain Ales.
All start with 100% Deutche quality/ German malted grain, and are brewed with virgin rainforest spring water / agua de manantial taken from the ojo de agua at Montaña del Fantacia (Rainmaker Park is the business on the property) and is a very spiritual place with the finest water around, surrounded by micro-climate rainforest and stunning biodiversity. We hand craft all our beers in small batches, and focus on world-class beer quality rather than quantity.” (Perrovida Craft Beer Team).
You can read more about Perrovida Craft Beer at www.Facebook.com/perrovidacraftbeer. Or come down and visit them at Rainmaker park, just outside of Quepos. Directions can be found on Facebook places. Feel free to email them at: [email protected] for questions, to order t-shirts, etc.
Perrovida Craft Beer Team (above):
Paul & Jessica Peck: founder, brewmaster- 1 child, Reed
Kyle & Kaitlin Kersey: 3 kids, Braeden, Camden, Kieren
Mickey Gutirrez & Laura Carranza: 2 daughters, Cassandra and Mary
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