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Review – Curmi from 32 Via dei Birrai

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I was very lucky to receive an introduction to 32 Via dei Birrai with a full package of beers from the new Italian brewery.  I first sampled the Oppale and now I move on to another light offering the Curmi.

Pours a light orange with more yellow tints at the bottom of the glass.  Aroma is very Belgian like.  It is called a pale ale but this seems more a light tripel.  It has the spiciness and the vanilla notes that I tend to taste first and foremost in that style.  There is a little bit of citrus at the far back of this one as well.  A nice bit of pop to it as well.

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Because they kindly sent me the majority of their line-up, you will be seeing more reviews in the coming days and weeks.

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32 Via dei Birrai

I have been seeing some new Italian beers at my Whole Foods….
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“32 Via dei Birrai is an artisan brewery. Its philosophy follows the movement of the circle that contains the logo: a curved line that outlines the cycle of the traditional craft of brewing and leads on to discovering as yet unexplored paths.

32 Via dei Birrai represents the perfect equation between taste and design, between research and method without ever straying into industrial standardisation.”

Has anyone (with a bigger beer budget) bought any of these $14 beers? And if so, were they good?

Of the beers on offer, I would probably be most likely to have the Nectar because I know Italian’s brew up some great chestnut beers.

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Bruton

I traveled out to El Segundo to sit in the sun after a rainy LA stretch of days to try some Italian beers and meet the brewer Iacopo Lenci.

I am writing about the beers at FoodGPS but that won’t post until Thursday so in the meantime, here is the photographic proof:

The event 411

Stone R and Lillith (both have interesting stories behind the names)
the menacing logo
Lillith and Stone R out of the bottles
Me an Iacopo

Thanks to Brandon at Rock N Brews for hosting!

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Revelation Cat…

…is a brewery that I have heard mentioned frequently. And when I saw this post from the great Wine and Cheese Place website, I thought that I had to pass it on. (mostly because I am a huge Nelson Sauvin fan)
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“The Woodwork series is our first release from Revelation Cat. The “base” beer is an 110 IBU Imperial IPA made from 100% Munich Malt and hopped with Nelsin Sauvin Hops. There are 4 versions available: “base” beer with out any oak aging, then the same “base” beer treated in 3 different oaks. The beer was aged for 7 days in the oak barrels. 11% ABV
“This experimental ale is brewed to highlight the different effects that various woods give while aging the same batch. The ale we chose to brew as a base for this experiment is a very dry Heavy IPA brewed using only one malt, a neutral yeast and a one hop variety, grown in New Zealand. The barrels used for aging have been assembled in Sicily and are all fresh, used for the first time. This may sound discouraging, however our intention is to make you really taste the wood and all the differences between the barriques we used, which have been made with French oak, American oak, and Acasia. These ales have been bottled exclusively in 375ml gueuze bottles to aid you in parallel tasting and sampling without which this experiment would not have sense. Brewed in one of the most fascinating breweries in the world, by one of the most experienced brewers of the modern brewing scene, this is the first release of the Revelation Cat Craft Brewing project and we hope you will understand our goals and ideas.”

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World Cup + World Beer – Paraguay

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TODAY: PARAGUAY V. ITALY

Rather than take the easy way out and choose a beer from Baladin or one of the other Italian micros that are putting out great and dramatically different beers, I opt to head to Paraguay for a cool, refreshing macro water lager.
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From Cervecería Paraguaya which was originally established in 1894 as Cervecería Nacional. The name was forbidden in 1938 and changed to the current name. The brewery in Ypané has a capacity of 2.5 million hectoliters per year and is part of InBev’s Latin American South Zone.