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Until recently it was impossible to ask a local beer in the city of Alicante. Today we already have various references as the Sacristan of Sant Vicent del Raspeig, the Spigha, which is manufactured in Alcoi, the Xabiga of Xàbia, or different varieties of Santa Faz, Santa Cruz and Santa Barbara to beers from a couple of months ago sold Antonio Miralles.

Its history is very similar to nearly all that are introduced into the world of the micro brewery. “Just over one year ago I closed my previous business, dedicated to gardening and I signed some courses for entrepreneurs. I had heard that craft beer brewing was working in areas such as Catalonia and it seemed to me that it could be a good alternative. After nearly a year to develop the formulas, facilities and all the paperwork, not even two months ago that we managed to come out on the market, coinciding with the day of Santa Faz, and the truth is that I am quite optimistic with the first results.”

For Miralles key for this type of product is first of all to offer a quality beer and made in an artisan way. “The degree of dedication that we bring to each one of the bottles we manufacture would be impossible for a large brewery. Here we employ no filtering aggressive, no preservatives or additives industrial procedures. It’s offering a beer with an aroma and a characteristic taste, which do different, unique”.

This commitment to craftsmanship is also linked to the local nature of its product. From there to almost all craft beers to claim on their labels values of the area where they make. Names as Alicante or Santa Faz, Santa Barbara, joined others with influences such as the Socarrada, which occurs in Xativa and is a tribute to the ‘malnom’ of its inhabitants, the Valencian Tyris, referring to the name given in the pre-Roman city, or beers Micalet, in allusion to the Bell Tower of the Cathedral of Valencia.

Miralles is aware that something is changing in the consumer. “Mostly young people is that increasingly appreciates the taste of a good beer. You are interested to know where it is made, and they appreciate the confidence that consume a product made in your area. It is the same feeling that has that buy the bread in the oven of her neighborhood front buy it that in a supermarket”.

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May 18

International Beer

By News On Spanish Beer

From 17 to 19 May the city of Morelia will host the 3rd International Beer Festival, in which more than 500 different labels of this drink, both national and international will be present.

Portal “morelianas.com” points out, the festival aims to give meeting attendees a variety of craft beer, as well as support to the producers of the same.

And it seems that the objective has been achieved, since in its first edition, of the Morelia International Beer Festival brought together more than 22 thousand visitors and 18 exhibitors; but this year will be 500 brands that participate.

In addition, attendees not only can enjoy the wide variety of beers, also will have the opportunity to delve into the world of craft beers through conferences, tastings and pairings that will be taught by people in the beer industry.

There will also be a basic workshop for the brewing, in which the participants will learn to make this beverage in their same household, as they did some of the current local producers.

Conferences include “The history of beer”, “The importance of the glass or Cup to taste the beer” and “80 styles internationally recognized beer” to name a few.

Notably, the company ultra-violent Total disaster (DTU) will be one of the guests of honor, so there will be quality wrestling and other musical performances.

The third edition of the International Beer Festival, will be held in the city of Morelia, in the Orchid Garden, located in Av. Ventura Puente esquina con Av. Camelinas s/n, Col. Félix Ireta; from 17 to 19 May.

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May 16

Produces The Only Craft Beer Of Trás-Os-Montes

By News On Portuguese Beer

Where the beer is 100 percent natural

Beer made old-fashioned can winning space in the national market, but lack organizing the sector. Only six recognised brands

The second meeting of Craft beer Producers joined ten Portuguese and Spanish brands in source of Village, municipality of Miranda do Douro.

The event was organized by the Association Sartigalhos Parlegrinos, which, since 2010, produces the only craft beer of Trás-os-Montes. Promote handmade beer production and enhance the richness of the cuisine of the region of Miranda do Douro Plateau were some of the objectives of this event.

The initiative was part of a national competition, craft beers in a blind tasting brought together five assessors and experts in craft beer. The winning beer in this edition is produced in Mesa Ocaña, in the Spanish province of Castilla, and goes by the commercial name of Yria. Second place went to a craft beer produced in the region of Porto, referred to as Stingy.

Playing at home, beer Sarti, produced by Sartigalhos Parlegrinos, also did not leave indifferent tasters. “Sarti is a 100 percent natural beer, without filtering or pasteurization and inserts itself as an asset in the promotion of artisanal beers”, stressed the President of the Association, Francisco Marcos. The leader believes that “the qualities of the water” in the municipality of Miranda do Douro, coupled with wheat and barley can cause the drink succeed, in a market that is not intended “mass.

Long path

Experts argued the need to produce beers in Portugal prepared based on endogenous products, since there is the market. The President of the Club of Collections of beer in Portugal, Rui Valente, was one of them. “Only in Portugal there are six handcrafted beers labelled brands, although there are about fifteen producers of this type of drink. There is still a long way to go, “said the expert.

Many were headed to the second edition of this gathering of brewers, where they might enjoy several types of craft beer, meet the flavors mirandeses and contact with the culture and people of the Earth.

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Water quality in the municipality of Miranda do Douro, coupled with wheat and barley can dictate the success of trademark Sarti.

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May 08

A Beer

By News On Italian Beer

Milan, May 6, 2013-three events dedicated to the discovery of beer, one of the most popular and ancient beverage in the world. Unpublished and original evenings at the Hilton Milan, where you can taste different beers, expertly matched to designed and prepared for the occasion by Executive Chef Paul Ghirardi.

Hilton chose to turn the spotlight on the world of beer at a time when the drink is in our country a constant growth, thanks to the increased availability of foreign products of quality and to the emergence of a movement crafted Italian Brewer.

And to craft beers will be devoted the first night, scheduled for the May 17, starting at 19.30.

As welcome guests new pils, Delia, produced only for the summer, light and drinkable, 4.3 degrees, especially suitable as an aperitif.

Follow silk, Rural brewery, a beer style in blanche-wit spiced with coriander and orange peel, who will be accompanied by a greater amberjack carpaccio from line in Sàor.

DARING to 32 Via dei Brewers, will be the third tasting. For this strong Lager Belgian-style strong ale, the chef will prepare a roulade of sole stuffed with Zucchini and pumpkin flowers on crostone di farro in Oyster stew.

The fourth and last seen as tasting beer DONKER, Extraomnes brewery. It’s a dark, strong beer, imperial stout style coffee-flavoured, which will accompany the dessert, white eat almond milk and rice with fresh fruit.

“More and more increasing the beer aficionados. And it is precisely for this reason that, with the help of our expert Alessandro Coggi, we decided to organize a series of tastings, giving lovers of this ancient drink the chance to appreciate it with greater awareness. Gastronomic proposals of our chef, who will accompany each beer, we hope to offer an experience of alto pleasure for the taste of those who have chosen to participate in our “evenings, Carmine, F&B Pasaraba emphasises manager at the Hilton Milan.

A second appointment for lovers of beer will be dedicated to beers. What better time to and celebrate them if not July 4, American independence day?

The third tasting instead, expected in September, will be characterized by a proposal for smoked beers, tastes very firm for which special combinations are designed.

To lead the tastings Alessandro Coggi, great connoisseur of the beer world, taster and judge Brewers competitions.

The cost of the tasting and the dinner is Eur 42.

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May 08

Bread And Beer: Programs Recorded In Brazilian Beer Festival 2013

By News On Portuguese Beer

Journalist Fabiana Arreguy interview the Brewers André Junqueira (abode), Rodrigo Chervinski (Providence) and the ice-cream maker Stival, Gelataio Ibrahim, who made huge success at the party with ice cream of craft beers.

The chat is with Samuel Chandra, the inspired Bodebrown Brewer, elected the brewery of the year at the Festival.

The beers in tributes to rock bands are increasingly in profusion. Who talks about them is Sady Homrich, beer columnist of newspaper Folha de s. Paulo and drummer Nenhnum. As a result, I talk directly from Munich, Germany, where I was a snow and find places and interesting breweries tips for PHOTOSHOP ALL readers and bread and beer!

Who said what in the world Brewer also doesn’t have the buying and selling of “passes”? The brewery piracicabana Lady Bier, recently hired the Dimer Ilceu figures (master brewer) and Paul (beer sommelier) Bean, who worked on another brewing House. And the conversation is with the guys! In my diary, I a real achievement: noticio managed to enter and visit Engelszell Abbey in Austria, eighth monastery Brewer to get the status of “Trappist” (see story here).

The column & Beer Bread airs every Friday at 11:45 in the morning by radio CBN in Belo Horizonte (106.1 FM). Listen to the program live or short the previous programmes written and made available here on the blog by PHOTOSHOP ALL.

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Apr 26

An Application For IPhone For Beer Lovers

By News On Portuguese Beer

There are beer lovers here? If the answer is positive, then know that there is an application designed thinking of you. It’s called Beer Hunt and, at least for now, appears to be exclusive to IOS devices like iPhone, iPod and iPad. Essentially makes the Act of ‘ exit to go have a drink ‘ a kind of journey, where they are assigned points and rewards users by discovering new locations to enjoy beer.

According to the creators of the application, this application is intended to be a sort of Foursquare for beer-whenever we a beer consumer profile, depending on the type of beer that is, it is assigned a score. The score will also be influenced by previous experiences.

There is, of course, a purpose for this application. ‘ Is this a business, or a game? Is both ‘, said Shaan Puri, product manager of The Monkey Hell, incubator responsible for implementation. ‘ Beer is the third most popular drink in the world, after water and tea ‘. According to the own, despite all its popularity marketing facet of this business does not seem to have been completely developed. The Beer Hunt seems to be more geared towards craft beers and their products, which do not have the same budget to conduct advertising campaigns as the commercial brands of beer.

It is expected that, in the future, in addition to the score and rankings that this application provides its users, partnerships to be developed so that users of this app can enjoy discounts or free beer, among other rewards. What do you think of this concept? Definitely will be appealing for beer lovers.

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Apr 09

Beer T

By News On Italian Beer

“We have beer, in the development of civilized humanity deserves the same place of discovery of glass”. Word of Jeffrey Kahn, American psychologist who in the New York Times defines beer as the spring that made the human species evolve from simple survival to civilization.

The new local PHOTOS via Petroni

It is not much different the spirit in which two young bolognesi, Gianfranco Sansolino and Roberto Poppi Woodfordes brewery, decided to open in the area more difficult than the heart of Bologna, via Petroni, their pub, Green River. Nothing unusual, but Green River is a sui generis, pub that is radical and unusual choices for that street: only Italian craft beers and, almost alone, very few bottles, no cocktail, cicchetti nothing. Pure coffee is made of the historical

ferrarese Commerce roasting, born in early ‘ 900.

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“It’s a challenge, we need quality in an area that has to downsize, we go with what we know to do,” said Pascual and Sansolino, who also manage another local near Porta San Felice, the Harvest Pub, with the same philosophy. The Green River becomes even more radical and somewhat foolhardy, given the problems of nightlife in via Petroni. There are 14 12 plugs to CO2 and two English pump, which makes it the most local craft beers on tap. Rotating beers, but with some fixed labels: apart from Shropshire, for example, Brewfist (Lodi), Lambrate (Milan), Emiliano Brewery (Castelfranco Emilia), Extra Omnes (Varese).

“We begin to redevelop via Petroni, betting everything on quality to break the current idea of drinking and living the city area-says Pascual-. Our challenge is to understand that you can drink a beer in less, but more good, and respect for the neighborhood “. Hence the choice not to sell bottles: “Encourage to move away from the pub to berle on the street, and we know the problem of glass shards. And then you can of course drinking beers of this quality to the neck “, explains Pascual.

Forbidden to ask Craig to the Green River, the only spirits are rum and whiskey tasting. The environment, edited and with soft music, and timetables, are from English pub, from 11 am to 1 am. “Even the British-style consumption, there is scandalized by to drink a beer in the afternoon, but this certainly is not a pre-disco”. From Green River opens tonight on the backburner, official inauguration on April 19.

Moreover, Kahn writes: “In ancient times, the strict conservation of the species codes did not allow man to do what it takes for civilization: exploration, art, creativity, experimentation. It was something that he would deliver us from those codes, or at least alleviasse the anguish that we took when violavamo them. We needed the beer “.

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Apr 08

Gjulia, Friulian Challenge Of The First Agricultural Beer

By News On Italian Beer

SAN PIETRO AL NATISONE. The wine is not the only result of the peasant tradition of Friuli. Now there is even a beer: it’s called Gjulia and is the new production which was dedicated a branch of the historic Winery of the brothers Marco and Massimo Zorzettig. Which is added, in the project, also the Brewmaster Mirco Masetti. Production began in April last year and ga already had a successful noteviole, facenodis now know am circuit of craft beers and ruistorazio bne.

It is, in short, the first beer brewed in agricultural region. This term defines the products made at least to the 51% with ingredients to “kilometer zero” — grown at home. This also happens for Gjulia, whose barley that serve to make the malt is grown in a plot located a few kilometers from the Abbey of Rosazzo, while the settlement, about 2,500 sqm in total-is within walking distance, in San Pietro al Natisone. Where the analysis in pre-production have identified the right water for beer of Friuli. To Marco Zorzettig, who personally care development, you could define a hyper-agricultural beer: more than 90% of the ingredients is made in Fvg.

So, as Mark – Zorzettig – few things are as homemade Beer Gjulia. The beers are all top-fermenting and are worked with artisan method, without the use of pasteurisation and filtration. The accuracy in the production process and production volumes – still says Zorzettig – allow Beer Gjulia to differentiate significantly from an industrial product. There are four types, each with the name of a compass direction: North, East, South, West, amber black. To these we add the gem, Grecale, a special limited edition blonde that can count on a mash of Picolit.

Peak production for the 2013 to 200 thousand bottles. Gjulia beer is now available in the best restaurants and wine bars in Italy, although a further goal of the company is and will be commercial development on foreign markets: among these are Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Japan, California, and China. Among other things, for those who want to discover the best combinations of Gjulia Beer with the dishes of the Italian tradition, the www.birragjulia.com website offers recipes and tips regularly on this issue.

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Apr 03

Beer Ale

By News On Portuguese Beer

Tuesday, April 2, 2013 22:28

Beer and music result in a delicious. And was thinking in putting together these two passions that the brewery Bamberg, recognized internationally for its production of unique handmade labels, releases his latest success, Raimundos Helles.

The new beer is the result of a partnership between the artisanal brewery of Votorantim, São Paulo State, and one of the most important bands of Brazilian rock, Raimundos.

Over 20 years of career, the blast from the play with the same intensity and the same energy that started the band. The striking, fast lyrics, full of satire, irony and riff’s powerful Blast of one of the most famous rock bands from Brazil.

And to honor and publicize the beer culture, the Bamberg joined the feeling of freedom and of craft beers and created the Raimundos Helles. “The drink was developed with the goal of being a different beer, which can be drunk for a long time, without which it becomes tiresome and repetitive, as well as the powerful sound of the Raimundos,” explains Alexandre Bazzo, master brewer and owner of Bamberg.

The beer is a pale Lager. Known as liquid bread of Bavaria, this style of beer is enjoyed around the world, mainly in Munich, Germany.

With a yellow colour and persistent foam and crystalline, the Helles features aromas of bread, caramel, floral hops and malt. Its balanced flavor features striking notes of malt and hops, which acts to balance the taste.

Refreshing, easy drinking and with an alcohol content of 5.0%, this low-beer fermentation takes three different types of malts.

The Raimundos pale Lager is a beer of personality and harmonizes with light dishes, greasy and not hardened and will be available in 600 ml bottle version from March and will be distributed by Bushido.

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Mar 25

Beer Festival

By News On Italian Beer

«Beer» us civilized. There is little to add after reading the Herald Tribune a learned article psychiatrist Jeffrey p. Kahn, author of the book “the origin of anxiety and depression». Between primordial instincts of man, argues prof, there are the ability to associate in clan to defend and establish hierarchies. Lifesaving instincts that do not lend themselves though art, invention, to everything that makes living a civilization. For this we need something that break social codes. «We need beer, ‘ sentences Khan, recounting a recent archaeological discovery, traces of production of a sort of beer were found in the caves in the Neolithic. Beer with which the ancestors ‘ eventually cancelled the anguish of challenging primordial instincts, making humans more expansive and creative».

This was the role of beer for our ancestors. Today in many return to the craftsmanship of the beer, not for soothing of the psyche but try to produce more healthy with new tastes. In Italy are more than 400 breweries. Among the first to deviate from conventional production, the brewery Italian of Agostino Arioli, that signature, e.g. Scires, where cherries are added before fermentation. The devenish by Leonardo Di Vincenzo was born around the same time, in the late 1990s, in the province of Rieti, Lazio. The real parties from DucAle and the Duchess, the boys of the village have landed in Rome, with two locations in Trastevere and Campo de ‘ Fiori. Is in one of these locations, the Open Baladin (“not a simple pub, but a genuine House of beer brewing by proposing culture where doing the best Italian and foreign craft beers alongside dishes – meat, potatoes, burgers and sandwiches, all done to perfection and with the best raw materials – by Gabriele Bonc”) that, a few months ago, was photographed while Secretary Bersani, only the table, wrote what would be passed to the history of the Democratic Party as “the speech of beer ‘. And yesterday Bersani has repeated the ritual at the end of the first day of consultations.

The Venetian Craft Brewery opened just two years ago but has already won the first prize awarded by the Association Unionbirrai (the competition was held on 23 February at Fiera di Rimini) in the category Italian Lager. The Brewer is called Rudy Liotto and produces two lines: the fury (blonde, red and black) and Venexiane, more experimental. At the same event, «» beer Selection, was awarded the 2013 The brewery Baladin, a story started by Teo Musso at a local in Piozzo, Langhe, in the rooms of a former Tavern and a former garage converted into a microbrewery after a trip to Belgium with a Volkswagen Westfalia van, that was strong in the counterculture years. The first bottled in 1996, Super and Isaac have become thirty between Spicy, Hoppy, Open, Pure Malt … Andrea Turk, author of the blog chronicles of beer, the industry benchmark, recommends Moreno Ercolani of Olmaia, in Val d’Orcia: the latest is the Starship, malts and English hops for a Bitter of 4.5% ABV, dedicated to the Boeing 720 that flew in the Led Zeppelin Tour. Some time ago the Gambero rosso has compiled a list of the best craft beers: he inserted the Domm, a Weizer produced by ‘ enfants terribles ‘ of the Birrificio Lambrate.

Increase consumption of craft beers, but also events. Like that underway today in Milan, Italy, Beer Festival at East End Studios in via Mecenate, with over 200 products to taste. Beer as a means of socializing, then. As has always happened. It is likely, suggests prof Kahn, that thousands of years before the famous phrase of Ben Franklin (“beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy”) some Neolithic man has done the same.

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