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Something German Is Brewing in Rethymno

brinksMany Greeks have become excellent businessmen abroad only because they missed the taste of feta cheese or wine and decided to import these products. The same can be said about foreigners who live in Greece.
German professor Dr. Bernd Brink, is the founder of Brink’s Rethymnian Brewery. Love at first sight was enough for him to move to Greece and start producing his own beer.
He first met his wife, Evangelia Papadaki, in Scotland. Then he travelled to Rethymno to find her. That was enough for him to change his whole life. At first he started producing beer for himself.
As a student he used to work in a beer hall as well as in several other breweries while he made beer at home. He had to travel a lot to Scotland because of his job. Every time he went to Crete he produced his beer and left again. But this could not happen forever.
With the traditional wish from a fellow brewmaster he started the first brew on Aug. 31, 2001 and soon the first organic beer in Greece was ready. It was fermented in a brewery without window-frames, without connection to electricity mains, only an old and very small generator, and without the necessary cooling-equipment- he used ice cubes to cool the fermentation tanks. Despite this, the beer has  turned out to be of excellent quality.

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