Santorini Brewing Company

Founded in 2011 by four partners in Mesa Gonia, amid the assyrtiko vines, the Santorini Brewing Company was the island's first — and for a long time only — brewery. Its donkeys became icons: Yellow Donkey bitter ale, Red Donkey red ale and Crazy Donkey, Greece's first bottled IPA, exported to the United States as early as 2013. Brewed with local ingredients whenever the thin volcanic soil allows, unfiltered and unpasteurised, the beers are best tasted at the source, five minutes from the Exo Gonia wineries and the ancient site of Akrotiri, away — well, slightly — from the Oia crowds. The hopped counterpoint to the Cyclades' most famous wine.