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BrkAAA, Visnja i Bastardo from Kosmaj - Craft brewery Kabinet is preparing export to America and taste area opening (PHOTO)
Friday, 24.03.2017.
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In three years, since craft brewery Kabinet operates, they "cooked" several dozens of different beers, using the highest quality imported ingredients, honey from Homolji, lemon balm from Kosmaj, hemp from Banat, cherries from Pozega, etc. Kabinet craft beers, distinctive also for designer labels are enjoyed by beer fans from Serbia, Russia, England, Germany, Slovakia, Italy, France, Bulgaria and Panama. Export to America is under preparation at the moment.
During 2017, they hope to open taste area.
Passionate gourmets and lovers of beer, a couple Kosara Dangic Melentijevic and Branimir Melentijevic, in their wish to offer high-quality craft beer to domestic market, they set up Kabinet Brewery. On the slopes of Kosmaj, in Nemenikuce village, in May 2013, they started construction of a modern brewery where real finest unfiltered, unpasteurized beers are produced. Production was launched in February 2014, and already in the first year, Kosara Dangić Melentijevic says in an interview for eKapija, they cooked 13 different beers.
- Kabinet emerged from a desire to produce natural, high-quality and
authentic beer which will not become boring day in day out. Craft beer was a continuation of our shared
passion for food and taste – our interlocutor, who has been working for years
abroad with his spouse, before opening of Kabinet. When they started a family,
they decided to continue career in Serbia, and their intention was to start
producing something that had not existed in our country.
- In the meantime, production doubled, and we are now "on the edge" – we will soon need new space. Our cooking is 2,000 liters. We try to follow market needs and not to make big breaks between cooking - Dangić Melentijević explains, adding that tasting area has been under construction and that they hope to open it this year.
When asked if starting from the scratch is difficult, our collocutor says smilingly:
- Any start from the scratch is risk, but also a great advantage. It is to
do things the way you want, because you are here from the start. Startup is
like raising a child on their feet, daily work with which you wake up and go to
sleep. Investments were high, because it is a greenfield project, especially
new equipment from Italy, as well as ingredients of the highest quality. We
were lucky we had support of long-term business partners.
Craft beer is completely
natural and made from the highest quality ingredients while creativity in terms
of ingredients is endless. All raw materials used are of the highest quality as
well as malt from Belgium, yeast from France, hops from around the world.
Beer as a work of art
Kosara Dangic Melentijevic revealed how they decided to cooperate with
designers and create unusual labels, which makes Kabinet known.
After very successful 2016, during this year the focus will be brewery and
opening of its doors to curious
visitors. Certainly, Kabinet expects a lot of new beers. Our interlocutor
points out that they were very satisfied with current results.
Most commonly, importers of their beers present at local festivals, and Kabinet attends beer events in Belgrade, Novi Sad and Nis. Also with Samo pivo pub, they organize regional festival of international craft brewers - Carousel. Here, our interlocutor says, they are trying to present the best world trends.
Flourishing craft of beer on Serbian market
The Cabinet, in early 2014, was a pioneer in Serbia, and now there are more
than 20 small breweries.
- Of course, with differences in equipment, components, capacity, styles which
each brewery offers. Also, our store Expert in beer now has over 150 foreign
craft beers, so generally, trend of craft beer incredibly quickly blossomed at
our market.
Last year, the Cabinet offered to customers and the unusual - pivolada.
Milica Milosavljevic
PHOTO GALLEY:
Manastir Kovilj