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Boon / Revelation Cat 3 year old Marsala Lambic

Great British Beer Festival 2011

ABV: 6%
Origin: Lembeek, Vlaams-Brabant, Vlaanderen (matured in Roma, Italy)

Revelation Cat Craft Brewing

Rome-based gyspy brewer Alex Liberati has been doing some strange stuff with unblended lambics from Boon and Girardin over the past few years. I wasn’t convinced by his single hop dry hopped lambics — traditionally lambic brewers have used hops [...]

Ducato Nuova Mattina

Top Tastings 2008. A shorter version first appeared on facebook, January 2009.

ABV: 5.8%
Origin: Roncole Verdi, Emili-Romagna, Italy
Website: www.birrificiodelducato.com

Birrificio del Ducato Nuova Mattina (New Morning)

I first encountered this unusual saison-style Italian craft brew, ”dry herbed” with ginger, green and red pepper, coriander and chamomile, on draught at the Pigs Ear beer festival. Jon, barman at the imported beer bar, [...]

Baladin Nora Birra Egizia

Top Tastings 2008. A shorter version was first published on facebook January 2009.

ABV: 6.8%
Origin: Piozzo, Piemonte, Italia
Website: www.baladin.it

Baladin Nora Birra Egizia

The restlessly creative Teo Musso is one of the pioneers of the new wave of Italian craft brewers: his brewpub Baladin dates back to 1996 and originally showed a strong Belgian influence attributed to the [...]

Ducato Viæmilia, Verdi Imperial Stout, Black Jack and La Luna Rossa

Top Tastings 2010 (Verdi Black Jack)

ABV:  5%, 8.2% and 8%
Origin: Roncole Verdi, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Website: www.birrificiodelducato.com

Italy, as I’ve mentioned here before, is currently one of the beer world’s innovation hotspots, with an emerging craft brewing movement fusing native respect for fine food and drink with a creative energy partly inspired by US brewing, and similarly unhindered by [...]

Nuovo Birrificio Italiano Amber Shock

ABV: 7%
Origin: Lurago Marinone, Lombardia, Italy
Website: www.birrificio.it

Nuovo Birrificio Italiano Amber Shock

1001 Beers You Must Try Before You Die

A full review of this beer is featured in the book 1001 Beers You Must Try Before You Die, published May 2010 by Cassell Illustrated.

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