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Hammerheart Brewing

Words: Loren • January 24, 2015

Hammerheart Brewing
Hammerheart Brewing

Nathaniel Chapman and Austin Lunn (HammerHeart Brewing)

SPB: What about Bathory’s music is most aesthetically similar to your beers?

Chapman: A simple question requires a simple straight forward answer. I asked Austin, his response: "Epic metal inspires epic beer." 

I will add to that by saying that the HammerHeart album was the beginning of the Viking Metal genre. So much of who we are as individuals and as a brewery is based on these old traditions, and metal plays such an important part as the soundtrack to our lives, that it was simply a most appropriate name.

Loren • January 24, 2015

Hammerheart Brewing
Hammerheart Brewing

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