Four rooms (Water, Hops, Yeast and Malt), maximum 12 Guests, a stone farm from 1839 and rows of bottles maturing in an old cellar. Our house lives to the rhythm of brewed beer. Nine years ago we decided to return to the beer tradition, in a once wonderfully developed and rich land, where in every village and castle a brewer lived and prepared a drink that brought people together. We took up the challenge of creating our own brewery and renovating an old, Lower Silesian farm, located in the Jizera Foothills. So we have Janusz - the Host and a certified brewer, old walls, comfortable beds and a dining room that calls for breakfast and dinner with the most delicious smells.
In our house, we brew beer from the purest Jizera water, unfiltered, unpasteurized, with the addition of herbs and flowers from the surrounding meadows. Low-alcohol, low-carbonation, the kind that even beer skeptics will enjoy. Tasting is one thing, but with us you can also see the process of creating the drink, because the dining room is also the brewing room. So we will satisfy your thirst and hunger. With homemade cottage cheese, fragrant bread, milk straight from the cow grazing in the meadow in front of the house, honey from the neighbor, homemade jams and everything that grows in the area and that we consider tasty and healthy. After the meal, it's time to hammock under the old lime trees, nibble an apple from the apple tree and slowly look around what's next. You can choose Wojkowa, Czocha Castle or Stóg Izerski as your destination for a walk. Telephone and internet coverage is tight here, so we use printed maps and books or go to the city for a while to get coverage. However, we recommend that you put your phone on the shelf and clear your thoughts, because the area is conducive to this. We are settlers in an area with an incredible history to discover. Anyway, check it out for yourself.
We offer our guests 4 rooms, each with a bathroom. The rooms are located on the first floor, above the brewing room, which is also the dining room. You will therefore have the opportunity to eat meals and beer right next to the brewer's workplace.
The names of the rooms and their decor are also related to the basic ingredients of beer: Water, Hops, Yeast and Malt. Each room was prepared by the brewer himself, who, as an engineer by education, also possessed installation and tiling skills. That is why the name Brewer's House has a clear meaning.
In the rooms, the beds are made of old, two-hundred-year-old beams from neighboring houses. Nothing is wasted here, old furniture from rural houses refers to the history of this place. We bought a lot of items from the previous owners. We introduce modernity to the historic house in the highest quality. The bathroom fittings are new, and we also take great care to keep the bathrooms clean, despite the old bricks and two-hundred-year-old wood.
The mattresses and bedding also meet modern standards, and we "stretched" the old beds so that every tall guest could sleep comfortably on them. During our numerous travels, we have slept in many houses and hotels and we know what is important to travelers.
We invite you without pets, because in the neighboring forest there lives a pair of hawks, which pose a threat to all small animals.
We want our guests to get to know the best sides of our region, which is why we buy all our products at local markets and from local producers. We buy processed meat and meat from a local slaughterhouse, where locals buy their supplies. For us, the biggest hit is sheep cheese (Sheep Cheese from Bystrzyca), but we also buy cow and goat cheese. We know from 17th century diaries that people in the foothills always lived very long lives, and their diet was based on cheese and herbs from the surrounding meadows. We also add herbs, fruits and flowers to our beer. The hit of the 2024 season was beer with elderberry and strawberries.
For breakfast, there are always eggs from the neighbor and Stankowicki honey. And bread from a nearby bakery. We will welcome you with various spreads for bread, milk straight from the cow grazing in the meadow in front of the house, honey from the neighbor, homemade jams and everything that we consider good and healthy, growing in the area.
We prepare vegan or gluten-free dishes on request.
Above all, however, we offer a unique beer, produced from the purest water of the Jizera Mountains. Dom Piwny Stankowice is the only brewery in the district and in the Jizera Foothills that produces beer on site and matures it in the natural conditions of an old stone cellar. This is a return to tradition while taking into account the applicable sanitary regulations. A difficult task, but the beer is delicious, unfiltered, unpasteurized, with the addition of herbs and flowers from the surrounding meadows. Low-alcohol, not very carbonated, it tastes good even to those who claim they don't like beer. It is a drink that is definitely different from those available in supermarkets. It has been recognized by the Leśna commune as a regional product and, like beer, it brings people together.
It is worth going to the fish fryer near the Leśna dam or eating dumplings on the beach at Bucky.
Our house is at the end of the village and civilization. The road through the village for ordinary vehicles is not through, so there is practically no traffic. There is usually absolute silence, our daughter from Warsaw says she can hear the current flowing in the cables.
You can read books, you can also write them. You can sleep (and in the stone walls you sleep wonderfully, "like a stone"). You can set off for a walk in the surrounding forests. The neighboring mountain, Wojkowa, is part of the Crown of the Polish Sudetes.
You can look for traces of the previous inhabitants of these areas and this is where the never-ending history begins. With every house, castle and boulder there is an interesting story waiting. Many historians have only touched on these stories (Janusz Skowroński, Krzysiek Urban, Joanna Lamparska or Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk). People who want to create new, good things on the basis of this civilization are consciously settling in the area. Our neighbours are recently settled printers from Wrocław, using the traditional letterpress technique and old printing machines. The translator of Olga Tokarczuk's novels into German also lives near us. People come from all over Poland, farmers and MPs, directors and business owners, to reach for the sources and beginnings.
In the Leszno tunnels, Nazi engineers conducted nuclear weapons tests, in the neighbouring village steam from weaving machines was used to heat greenhouses and produce pineapples. And in 2003, a feature film directed by Przemysław Wojcieszek, "Down the Colourful Hill", was recorded in our house.
Upper Lusatia, once an incredibly rich land, with pearls in the Kwisa River and gold from Złoty Potok, has the greatest, timeless treasure - nature. A hawk is teaching its young to fly above our house (which is why we do not accept animals), during a walk you can hear over 20 voices of different bird species, owls hoot at night, and the activity in the garden is determined by the snow on Śnieżka.
The closest tourist trails in Świeradów and the Czech mountains are empty even in the peak season, and the carefully restored towns and recreational areas of our German neighbors (Oybin, Berzdorfer See) allow for various forms of relaxation. And Saxon Switzerland is also not far away, as are Dresden, Prague and the stunning Bolesławiec. Here we have everything at our fingertips: mountains, lakes, towns, villages, stories, sensations, nature and many secrets that have not yet been discovered.
And of course you can drink a unique, truly regional beer with history.
What’s there for children?
Children have the opportunity to have contact with real nature and rural life dependent on its whims. If haymaking, it is only when the weather is good. However, Polish horses graze in the meadows all year round, and in February and March, young are born in the meadows. In Mula Zagroda or Stud Izery, you can practice horse riding. Local farmers are happy to let you see their work in the field and on the farm. But the most secrets are hidden in castles and palaces. Czocha Castle is just an introduction to history, but also a field for princesses. In winter, skiing in Świeradów and the Czech mountains, in summer, a lake on the border with a whole range of water sports or a swimming pool in Lwówek Śląski. A wide range of board games. The phone is rather useless.
What’s there for employees?
We cannot guarantee fast internet for now (sometimes it works, but not always), work on fiber is ongoing. Therefore, the basis for work is undisturbed silence and resources on media (including the human head) and in books.