Probably most of you don’t know this brand new brewery started about one year ago, but it’s just a matter of time… Valter Loverier is an engineer who made the big jump, leaving his job and fulfilling his dream of passing from the homebrewing side (with a lot of years of experience) to the professional one. He always had clear ideas about the philosophy of production of Loverbeer, his brewery (and nickname too): strength link with [...]

Wow! It seems someone abroad reads my posts and find them useful. I spoke Saturday with some guys from Vermont who went to Birre della Merla after having read about this festival on the only Italian blog written in English… Well done! I am sure they enjoyed it. Speaking with them they told me about a fact I have already notice abroad: for foreign people Italian beers means generally Nastro Azzurro, Peroni and Birra Moretti. What [...]

A rushing drink this evening in one of my favourite pubs before going home. There was nothing interesting for me on draught (I am a spoiled child) so I asked for the bottle list. Very short indeed, word-of-mouth, but I found the right name. It was quite a long time since I had the last one. My fault. I have only a weekness in beer. This equation: caramel + carlsbergensis + bitterness (every kind eligible, American [...]

Suppose you are around with a beer friend. Suppose it’s happy hour time. Suppose to enter the pub and to see a guy sitting in front of the owner and a crate on the table. Suppose as you approach that table to heard the guy saying “I already met you some years ago in London during the GBBF”. Then you’re the right man in the right place at the right time. Pietro Di Pilato was previously [...]

According to Alfred Watkins, ley lines are a net that covers the entire Earth’s surface. Along these lines energy flows and their intersection marks mystic power sources. Only a few people are able to see that lines and Beppe Vento, the brillant brewer of Bi-Du, might be one of them. His idea was to chart a line that tied together English malts and hops, Belgian yeast and malts, German malts and hops and Italian honey and that’s [...]

We often say in Italy that our beers are creative, cross-style and expensive. Quite true indeed. Well, why not to start the blog with an overcrowded (but very good) style and a reasonable priced bottle of beer? Bia is a brand of Birrificio del Ducato whose beers have names represented by the style. They are conceived in some sense as simple and “low cost” beers, whatever that means making low cost beers starting from water, [...]