THE BEERVANA 2024 INTERNATIONAL INVITATIONAL: GERMANY

We are Olli and Ricky, the founders and heartbeat of Sudden Death Brewing. We grew up on the Baltic Sea, in Timmendorfer Strand, where ice hockey has a long tradition and has been with us both since childhood - Olli was even an active player and in winter he still likes to get out on the ice. Hockey is also big in the USA - and so this one passion has often taken us to the stadium of our favourite NHL team, the Boston Bruins, over the last few years. Live there in the stadium - that is unbeatable for us.

... or almost unbeatable, because on these trips we (re-)discovered another passion: beer.

So one passion brought us to the other and we combined both in our new brewery built in 2022.

Our name, Sudden Death Brewing, stands for both passions, ice hockey and brewing. Sudden death in ice hockey refers to the game being decided by the first goal scored in overtime (cf. “golden goal” in football) – one of the most exciting moments of all.