When Bobby Kros and Scott Strain opened Kros Strain in 2017, their goal was to bring a different kind of beer to the Omaha market.
“Hazy IPA wasn’t a thing around here,” Kros says. “We knew it would come around sooner or later.”
The two met while working together at Nebraska Brewing and decided to join forces to start their own brewery. Tasting what was available in the market led them to beers such as Three Floyds Zombie Dust and Surly Axe Man, and the influence of these more bitter, malty beers was apparent in early iterations of Fairy Nectar…