Jeppe Jarnit-Bjergsø

The Climb

Beer culture often takes shape before the brewhouse: in shops, classrooms, writing, and service, where selection and language teach drinkers how to pay attention. Before Jeppe Jarnit-Bjergsø entered beer professionally, his working life was as a schoolteacher in Copenhagen, a role built on clarity, discipline, and the handling of a subject in front of an audience. Bottle retail gives an artisan close contact with demand, drift, and palate education. From 2005, Jeppe Jarnit-Bjergsø became owner / proprietor at Ølbutikken in Copenhagen, working at the point where bottles, drinkers, and conversation meet. Ølbutikken was where his public beer work first took practical form: selection, explanation, and a close reading of how taste changes inside a serious beer culture. Beer writing extends that same work into a different medium: it fixes choices, pairings, and arguments into language. As co-author at Food & Beer, Jeppe Jarnit-Bjergsø added authorship to the shop-floor practice. The pattern across these early roles is involvement rather than distance: retail, writing, production, and service treated as connected parts of how beer reaches the glass. Today, Jeppe is proprietor of Drikkeriget, founder of Evil Twin Brewing (since 2010), and proprietor of Tørst — a career built around control of beer from idea to public encounter.

Today

Distribution and proprietorship keep a beer worker close to place, supply, and the terms on which beer is made available. Jeppe Jarnit-Bjergsø is proprietor at Drikkeriget in Copenhagen, maintaining a current connection to the city where Ølbutikken first put his beer work into public view. Independent brewing asks where authority sits: with the recipe, the producer, the market, or the person willing to carry the outcome. Since 2010, Jeppe Jarnit-Bjergsø has been founder at Evil Twin Brewing in New York City, New York, United States. His current title is Beer King / Founder at Evil Twin Brewing, a deliberately pointed title attached to a practical operating position. As he has put it, "I wanted to do things on my own terms, and this was the way I could be totally involved and control everything." The claim is about proximity to the work: recipe, outcome, identity, and the beer’s final impression. A bar or beer venue is not only a sales room; it is where production decisions meet service and drinker response. Jeppe Jarnit-Bjergsø is also operator of Tørst in New York City, New York, United States. Across Drikkeriget, Evil Twin Brewing in New York City, New York, United States, and Tørst, the work is organized around how beer is made, selected, presented, and encountered. Recipe-making, is judged by the glass rather than by concept alone. Falco, an American-style IPA, is one of Jeppe Jarnit-Bjergsø’s signature works. His stated method is direct: "When I make a recipe for a beer it’s about the end result. It’s about how the beer tastes, that’s the only thing I have in mind." Style, name, and position can frame a beer, but the stated priority is the tasted result.

Signature

Signature beers include Even More Jesus, Falco, and Sour Bikini. The range in naming gives the beers a public stance before the first pour, but the working principle remains taste: the beer has to resolve as an end result, not just as an idea.

In Their Words “When I make a recipe for a beer it’s about the end result. It’s about how the beer tastes, that’s the only thing I have in mind.” “I wanted to do things on my own terms, and this was the way I could be totally involved and control everything.”

Recognition

Jeppe Jarnit-Bjergsø has received RateBeer: 10th best brewer in the world and top non-US brewer (2013). Retail recognition matters when it reflects selection, point of view, and the trust of serious drinkers. Jeppe's honors include #1 Bottle Shop in the World for Ølbutikken (2008), tied to the Copenhagen shop where his early public work in beer became visible beyond the counter.