La Selva

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Costa Ricans are looking to reclaim cities, retell stories and find products from local designers. We are embracing the idea of thinking before eating, recycle and restoring a natural balance to our lives.

ALL THE JUNGLE IN A BEER

LIVING ALE

Costa Ricans are looking to reclaim cities, retell stories and find products from local designers. We are
embracing the idea of thinking before eating, recycle and restoring a natural balance to our lives.
Amidst the heat of Cabuya, Israel native Jacob runs one of the new craft-beer facilities in the country.La
Selva Cerveza Artesanal (La Selva Craft Beer) offers Ticos six beer flavors made exclusively from the four
ingredients that make a beer a beer: hops, malt, yeast and water. These ingredients are combined to
produce six styles of beer, with suggestive names: Rubia, Dorada, Naranja, Castana, Morena, and Oscura.

“I try to offer a beer that gets better every day. Our job is to give the Costa Rican public a beer that is alive
and more palatable every time. Each day, we make a beer that tops the previous one. We seek to provide an
unique taste, optimizing the process of aging the beer to bring forth its flavors. We are on a constant quest
for our product to reach balance”

La Selva craft beer brings a lifestyle philosophy by taking part in a world-view of balance to the Costa Rican
market: for Jacob, creating and distributing his own beer goes beyond a mere act of consumption. The
whole initiative is based on the philosophy of living ale, -we belong to a world of living beings-

The beer is not pasteurized or filtered, has all the yeast inside, this combined with the purity of the water
from the Cabo Blanco Natural Reserve – where the brewery is located- make one of a kind Living beer.
“Our drive is to coexist with nature and its resources, while others think less is more, we think less is all.”