New brewery catering to families to open this week
Brewery will feature an indoor playground for kids and adults.
Sojourners Brewstillery is gearing up to open next weekend in Washington Twp., with a concept unlike any other brewery in the Miami Valley.
The new craft brewery and distillery at 8150 Washington Village Drive in the Yankee Business Center off Miamisburg-Centerville Road (Ohio 725) in Washington Twp. also doubles as an indoor playground of sorts for adults and kids, with corn hole boards, a pool table, a ping-pong table,
an elevated shuffleboard table, a Foosball table, Ladder ball, a video-game console that contains more than 2,000 games, and a popcorn machine. For starters.
Plans call for hosting yoga classes and fitness “boot camps,” among other events, according to Jeff and Laura Marjamaa, the founders of Sojourners Brewstillery.
The Dayton area’s newest craft brewery will open Friday, Feb. 28, and its grand opening will continue through Sunday, March 1. Hours will be 4-10 p.m. Feb. 28, 3-10 p.m. Feb. 29, and 2-10 p.m. March 1. Food trucks will be on hand each night to provide sustenance.
Here’s an early look at the opening-weekend tap list, which is subject to change:
■ West Coast IPA
■ Blonde Ale
■ Irish Red
■ Saison
■ Strawberry Table Beer (“low in alcohol and refreshing,” Jeff Marjamaa said)
■ Stout (“Cross between Dry Irish and English”), which may not be ready for release until St. Patrick’s Day
■ Black Cherry Hard Seltzer
■ House Root Beer
■ House Orange-Vanilla Soda
Distilled spirits will be coming soon, starting with a vodka in mid-April or so, the Marjamaas said. A gin and whiskey will follow.
“We had to devote all of our fermentation capacity to beer at first,” Jeff Marjamaa said.
This isn’t Jeff Marjamaa’s first rodeo, or brewery. He is the co-founder and served as chief financial officer of two other breweries: Aegir Brewing Co. in Elk River, Minnesota, and JAKs Brewing Co. in Falcon, Colorado.
He remains a co-owner of those breweries.
Those experiences are significant, because the Marjamaas say the “Sojourners” part of the new “Sojourners Brewstillery” isn’t just a contrived name. It’s a central theme of the business, Laura Marjamaa told this news outlet last week.
The 6,000-square-foot brewery and distillery has a large wall has a “Share the Journey” wall that the owners want customers to fill with photos, tags, and other mementos of their own personal journeys.
“This is where we want everyone who comes through here to leave a part of themselves, anything that shows or illustrates a piece of their journey,” Laura Marjamaa said. “That is deeply important to Jeff and me.”
The Colorado natives, who now live in Sugarcreek
Twp., have lived in Texas, Nicaragua and other places, and their journey has now brought them to the Dayton area.
“Everyone who walks through our doors is family, and we want this to be an extension of your home,” Laura Marjamaa said.
For more information, check out the Sojourners Brewstillery Facebook page.