Bolo’s origin story made NPR: a Valentine brewery that recruited head brewer Chris Hernstrom from Bend, Oregon — one of America’s great beer towns — to brew in the Sandhills. He came, and the beer has been worth the recruiting trip.
Aquifer Ale is the signature, brewed with water from the Ogallala Aquifer that sits under everything here. The Wild Plum Gose nods to the Sandhills’ wild fruit. It’s beer that tastes like where it’s made, in the most literal way.
Valentine is the adventure-sports capital of Nebraska — Niobrara River, Smith Falls, all of it — and Bolo is the taproom at the center of town. After a day on the river, there’s nowhere else you’d rather be.