Pat Scheidt has a passion for brewing good beer. His wife, Corina Scheidt, has an innate sense of style.

Combine the two and you have the Von Scheidt Brewing Company — a European style brew pub with more than 16 beers on tap and a friendly atmosphere.

The couple will open the pub on Saturday, bringing a nearly three-year dream to fruition. It will also mark the end of what has turned out to be an opportunity for friends to pay back the Scheidts.

Nearly 30 volunteers helped convert the old appliance shop into a unique brew pub that combines classic European style and Idaho heritage. The walls were painted to reflect the variety of beer colors — dark brown for stout and light gold for pale ale. The footrest at the bar was made from an old rail used in a silver mine in the Wood River Valley. Dark wood accents give the small pub an English feel.

The renovation appears as if it cost a small fortune. But Pat Scheidt said it cost more in sweat that it did in dollars.

“We’re crafty people,” he said. “And a lot of the materials were something that friends of mine had on hand — something left over from a project, or something that wasn’t ordered incorrectly.”

Scheidt said his wife sketched out the style while he hammered the nails.

Of course, the couple and their small army of friends know the trade. After all, it was the housing downturn that created a new opportunity for the Scheidts.

The couple, which previously owned a custom tile business in Twin Falls, always wanted to open their own pub — a place with a comfortable and classic atmosphere that offered craft beer and community venues. that are unique to south-central Idaho So when tile jobs grew fewer and farther between, they devoted more of their time and energy into turning a nearly three-year old dream into reality.

“I’ve always enjoyed making beer,” Scheidt said. “Even in the tile businesses I would bring a couple batches of my beer to the guys on Friday. It was kind of a way for me to show it off, see what people thought about it.”

The new pub boasts a nano-brewery in the back, which will brew up to three kegs of his own recipies each week.

Scheidt said he and his wife built the brew pub with their own money — doing the labor in the evenings after they closed their tile business and on the weekends.

The last step is to hire the right people as servers, Corina Scheidt said.

“They need to have a smile, a good sense of humor and be able to work as a team,” she said. “They also need to be at least 19 years old.”

The Von Scheidt Brewing Company, which is located at 157 2nd Ave. West, will open Saturday, and it is scheduled to be open until 11 p.m. on weekdays and until 1 a.m. on weekends.

Joshua Palmer may be reached at jpalmer@magicvalley.com