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Delegação do Mondial de La Bière, com os convidados italianos Teo Musso (Baladin) e Giovani Campari.(Del Ducato).

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8|21|13 All About the Italians

SUMMER SAMPLER CONTINUES: A flight of themed beers for $10! Each week will be a new sampler outlined in this e-mail! This week features Italian Craft Beers! Del Ducato Viaemilia Baladin Wayan Del Borgo Maledetta "Z"

THIS WEEK'S SAMPLER

DEL DUCATO VIAEMILIA

This bottom fermented beer is golden yellow in color with floral and herbaceous hop aromas. The finish is sharp with a hoppy bitterness and hints of acacia honey. Elegant, balanced and gratifying: there is always room for her! La VIÆMILIA being my first creation, is considered by many our signature brew. Although it may appear a simple lager, its brewing is the longest and most delicate. Every year, at the beginning of September, we travel to personally select hops from the farmers of Tettnang.{source}

BALADIN WAYAN

Le Baladin Wayan is made of 17 different ingredients {barley, wheat, spelt, oats, rye, different types of hops & many different spices besides coriander. Teo calls it a "Saison" but it is certainly his personal definition of a saison. Aroma & palate are rather complex, ie it takes some time to find your way through it, so to speak. The different hops are barely noticeable. The balance & bitterness is by a high degree provided by those many spices some of which are very very unusual in brewing {Teo does not disclose them} . This quite unusual combination of spices & herbs greatly impacts the finish which again is very different from "regular saison-style ales. {source} (It is also named after Teo's daughter! See photo below!)

DEL BORGO MALEDETTA

Dedicated to the creation of the latest Toscano cigar and to the Maledetto Toscano (damned Tuscan) Cigar Club, it mixes Belgian and British brewing cultures. It has an amber color and a deeply intense citrus and flowery nose. The hops and yeasts mix gives the beer a unique character. At first you will taste honey, then in the midpalate you will detect toffee evolving in citrus and finally merging in a delicious bitter and spiced flavor. Damn good, damn charming! {source}

GRILLED CHEESE PAIRING

We recommend you make it a beautiful Italian summer evening and pair your flight with The Viaemilia Grilled Cheese! Sottocenere, a black truffle cheese, Fontina, and Sundried Tomatoes on our Sourdough Bread! Que bella, mangia mangia!

First Stop: Birreria Le Baladin

If there’s a single person behind this beer explosion, it has to be Teo Musso, who started selling hisBaladin beers in the little Piedmontese town of Piozzo in 1996 (Piazza 5 luglio 1944; baladin.it). Since then, he has become the éminence grise of Piedmont brewers, at least if éminences grises can look like rock stars.

When I met Musso on the first day of my Piedmont beer quest a few months ago, he was wearing black jeans, a black leather jacket, a scarf and a couple of silver rings and bracelets. It’s the sort of look that, if you are innately cool, looks incredibly cool, and if you are not innately cool will make you look like a total idiot. Musso, for the record, is on the innately cool side of that equation.

Like any good Piedmontese kid, Musso grew up drinking wine. But as he says, “I was a rebellious teen, and because my dad made wine, I started drinking beer. I didn’t even like it that much at that point—the moment things really clicked was when I drank a Chimay Blue I’d taken out of my uncle’s fridge [Musso’s uncle was a pastry chef in Monte Carlo] when I was visiting one time. And from then, I had amalattia—sickness in the head—for beer.”

At first Baladin was just a bar, albeit one with 200 different bottled beers on the list. “Piozzo only had 800 people,” Musso recalls, “and 400 were retired. Take away the kids, and it was like one beer for each person who could actually drink.” People started coming from other towns, though, and then from Turin; the Baladin pub became a destination for beer fanatics. Then Musso started brewing his own beer. In Italy, in the late ’90s, the Belgian-style ales he was making were unheard-of; beer meant Moretti or Peroni, industrially produced lagers that were (and are) basically the Bud and Miller of Italy. Musso made amber ales, cherry-infused krieks, pumpkin ales—whatever inspired him.

Eventually, Musso says, “I began having this idea about getting my beer into the hands of people who drink wine.” He sent his beers to more than 500 restaurants in the hopes that wine buyers would taste them, he bothered winemakers to try them—anything he could think of to break through the basic Italian idea that beer was a simple, thirst-quenching beverage, good on a hot day or while watching a soccer game, but nothing you would ever think of having with a meal. “It was like moving mountains,” he says. “You’re trying to change a 1,000-year-old tradition.” Or really, trying to invent a new one, since Italy essentially has no beer tradition at all. {read more here} Did you know that we traveled to Italy and met Teo Musso? Read the blog post about it here!

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Birrificio del Ducato, Roncole Verdi di Busseto (PR)- Birre d’Italia

We were scheduled to arrive at Del Ducato around 10am I believe and fortunately didn't have any trouble finding it! Giovanni Campari, owner and brewer, hadn't arrived yet, so we went ventured over to a little bar/cafe for an espresso.

It was interesting sitting there in the small town of Roncole Verdi, nothing was going on anywhere else but in this tiny bar. A few fellows were playing cards, some were snacking on the food buffet that was already out, and another guy was on a work break it seemed for a cigarette and a glass of sparkling wine (mind you it is 10 am). It started to rain and the guys there helped the waitress/bartender bring in the outside chairs. A few more people came and left after ordering espressos and we had waited just enough time to go back to the brewery. They have two breweries, the one we were visiting being the first, and one in Fiorenzuola d’Arda, that wasn't too far away.

Bottling some Via Emilia!

The Boiler.

The fermentation room.

Labels stored in a walk-in.

Hops!

Now for the beer drinking part:

Every year Giovanni goes to a hop farm in Germany where he tastes all of the lots on the farm, and decides which lot will be his for Via Emilia.

Every year, at the beginning of September, we travel to personally select hops from the farmers of Tettnang (a small village in the south of Germany renowned for cultivating high quality aroma hops).VIÆMILIA unravels such extraordinary floral and herbaceous hop aromas due to the dry hopping process.

Manuel was inspired to call it VIÆMILIA since this beer is an anthem to our land, oppressed by thick fogs during the winter and withered by a merciless sun during the summer afternoons. The verses of a poet from Bologna helped me to put into words the mental image of a lazy day in June.

“Across wheat fields bent by the wind, between flat hills above the plane” (source)

Giovanni's wife is very much in love with Rauch beer, so he decided to brew "Wedding Rauch" as their wedding beer! Deliciously smoky. The stories that accompany the beers on their website are wonderful, read more about this one here.

And now, a drum roll please. . . . . we got to try all of the Verdi Black Jacks!

Here are the notes on these babies, in order.

This is what a tasting in a warehouse looks like. We tried quite a few others including, AFO (ale for the obsessed), Sally Brown, Winterlude, and the Lunas, La Prima Luna and La Ultima Luna. (notes below) If I recall correctly Giovanni was needed at their office and so we hopped in his car, after moving over his kid's baby seat, and drove over. We would be able to taste beers from their Modern line as well as their "Grocery Store" brand.

After all of that I'm sure you could imagine we needed food by this time! He took us to a nice little restaurant where they had Via Emilia on draft and good pasta. Giovanni was actually heading to the US the next day for some events so it was very kind of him to be able to fit us in with such a busy day ahead!