No bottles, no distribution, and zero online sales. To taste Ga.Beer, you have to hike up to the Rifugio Lavarella, in the heart of the Dolomites, over two thousand metres above sea level on the Fanes plateau in South Tyrol. It’s here that Gábor Sogorka, the hut’s cook and now also its brewer, founded a small alpine brewery — the highest in Europe — where craft beer is made with spring water flowing directly from the mountain.

The story of the microbrewery
"My husband has always had an interest in everything homemade," says Anna Frenner, Gábor’s wife, whose family has managed the hut since 1912. "After taking a beer sommelier course, he began brewing beer for our family, and it was a great success. So he thought it might make sense to brew a bit more."