seeks to connect past and present

By Gustav Gentaro Dose Founder, Mountains Walking Brewery

Beringia is an Arctic region where binaries dissolve: night and day, past and future and fire and ice merge in a timeless, elemental drama. Beringia Pilsner unlocks the crispness and mystery of the North with every glass.

Beingia is an ancient ice bridge that has since melted where the first humans came to North America from Asia in search of food.

When considering it I like to think about adventure and the yearning of the soul. It also conjures images of pristine wilderness, woolly mammoths and maybe… beer? It is unlikely that these people brought beer with them across this ancient land mass, but I love a good story, and who knows?

At New Hokkaido Bevco, we crafted Beringia Pils in homage to this lost land: cold, crisp and pristine. The pilsner style is created using a months-long fermentation method called “lagering.” Lagering is simply letting the beer sit in very cold temperature allowing it to mature. During this time the beer’s flavors round out, the process is really magical as is the end product.

As brewers, we can talk about this process to infinity, writing hundreds of books about the science pertaining to temperature, PH, gravity, etc. All of this is very important. But perhaps more important is the mystery behind it, made up of traditions, stories and, of course, our imagination.

New Hokkaido is such a fun vehicle to go on a journey of beer, tradition and imagination. I am grateful I can share my stories through this brand that has been so generously received, and I am so excited about what the future may bring.

One new area that New Hokkaido will be exploring is sake. We are just in the beginning stages, but are excited about how we can stand upon the great tradition and history of sake brewing and at the same time make it all our own. We look forward to sharing more on this endeavor later.

As we believe beer is a conversation, we continue this 3-way chat between you, our brewers and everything beer has been and will be. And while we play in the fields of beer, we bow to our ancestor beer makers and the vast history of brewing, even as we cut through the preconceptions of what beer might be.

Beer is an extraordinary collaboration between microorganisms (yeast), microorganisms (humans) and the grains that supply the fuel for fermentation. Where the rubber meets the road is with you.

Will you come on this journey with me?

Gustav