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The Sparrow Brewery beer park on Moshav Magshimim: Wonderful beer and hummus every Friday morning. (Photo: Mike Horton) |
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IBAV Taster Yitzchak Miskin (right) and the old blogger build up a beer thirst while hiking around the Crusader fortress of Mirabel, known in Hebrew as Migdal Tsedek or Migdal Afek. (Photo: Mike Horton) |
Before we arrived at the moshav we took short hikes in the area, carefully planned by Yitzchak, an experienced and enthusiastic hiker. Sure they were fun, but the underlying reason was to get us even thirstier for the beer!
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Excellent hummus and cold beer (also excellent), served by Dror Sapir (right) and his mom and dad at the Sparrow Brewery beer park on Moshav Magshimim. (Photo: Mike Horton) |
The beers on the menu alternate depending on what Dror is brewing at the time. My favorite is his Zythos Wheat IPA. In fact, when I first had it several years ago, it became my favorite Israeli craft beer. Since then, quite a few others have competed for this position, but I still recommend it highly. [Read that early review here.]
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Dror Sapir gets serious while talking about his beer with the old blogger. (Photo: Mike Horton) |
As we feasted on his beer and hummus, Dror explained that he opened his beer park on Sapir family property on Magshimim around four years ago.
"I've been brewing Sparrow beers since 2013," he added. "I was gypsy brewing and bringing my beers to stores and restaurants by myself. Besides the low profit margins, I was unhappy that I didn't get to see and hear the customers' reactions to my beer.
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Dror Sapir stays serious about the coronavirus while serving his beer on a recent Friday morning at the Sparrow Brewery beer park on Moshav Magshimim. |
You can occasionally find bottles of Sparrow beer at the Beer Bazaar pubs, depending on the quantity that Dror brews!
People travel to Sparrow for the Friday morning beer and hummus from miles away --Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Rehovot -- though Dror says that 70% of his regular customers are from the moshav. These are lucky people. If I lived closer I would probably make the Sparrow beer park my regular Friday morning routine.