Epirus Brewery (Stala)

Founded in January 2014 by three friends in Rodotopi, a village a few kilometres from Ioannina, Zythopoiia Ipeirou is Epirus' only microbrewery — and its brand name, Stala, 'the drop', fits perfectly. Its fresh, unpasteurised, bottle-conditioned ales — pale ale, Irish red, cream ale, a 45-IBU American IPA, saison — have become the natural reward for hikers coming down from the Vikos Gorge, less than twenty-five minutes away by road: on Untappd, walkers log their Stala Roussa as well earned after fifteen kilometres in the gorge. Between Lake Pamvotida, Ioannina's Ottoman old town and the stone villages of Zagori, an essential address of Greece's north-west.