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A new post dedicated – as increasingly happens – to the latest news from the Italian breweries. We start with Bad Attitude, a new brand that has linked its image to canned beer. Since the first rumors on the project, many comments focused on one question: how much will this innovative canned craft beer cost? The last week Lorenzo Bottoni replied on the Bad Attitude Blog…

Well, the price is really attractive: € 2 per can. This will be the cost for each can buying the beer on the company website, available in 24 boxes. With a bit less than 50 € (shipping exc.) you can buy 24 cans of Bad Attitude. Sounds quite good. The company is also in contact with beershops and distributors to make available its products throughout the country. If even in specialized stores the beer will be sold at a similar price, we should begin talking about a small revolution…

Two other innovations from Bad Attitude. The first concerns a new beer that will complement the range, along with Bootlegger and Hobo: Two Penny a between amber and gold Ale with 62.5 IBU.The second report concerns the presence of Bad Attitude at the Alley Cat on Saturday 8 May in Rome (beer + bike!), with awarding at Ma che siete venuti a fà with Bootlegger offered to present.

Let’s talk now about another new, yet already renowned, brewery. I am referring to Opperbacco, which is rapidly climbing several positions in my personal ranking of favorite brewers. After the recent trip to the brewery, Mirko Caretta from “bir&fud bottega” is back with some interesting previews on two unreleased beers. The first is the Tripping Flowers, a 6,1% ABV Saison, renewing the relationship between beer and music:

The link with the name of the band was obtained using only noble hops blossoms to which are added flowers collected from almonds of the brewery neighborhood. Together they “traveled” all over the boiling wort.

Will be sold in a package which will also include a music CD. The other novelty is the Triplipa Special Edition, more hopped than the standard (85 against 55 IBU) and bottled with fresh hop, creating a sort of dry hopping in the bottle. An original solution, even if the more intransigent geeks will turn up their nose at it.

Let’s see now what’s going on at the BI-DU, which has recently achieved two considerable goals. First and foremost, was finally inaugurated the new plant, with the very first batch of Rodersch.After months of troubles and sufferings, at the end the brewery of Beppe Vento has reached this major turning point. Speaking about Rodersch, it just become the best Kolsch in the world according to the Ratebeer website (thanks to Tyrser for the news). Maybe the Germans will disagree, but we can’t but celebrate this success. Congratulations to all the staff!

Returning to new productions, I report the new amber Belgian Ale (6,5% ABV) from the Vecchia Orsa Brewery. Moreover, the Emilian brewer reached the full effectiveness of the new plant and had a restyling of the website .This beautiful project related to the social cooperative “Fattoriabilità” seems to going on very well.

I conclude with another initiative for social integration. By partnering with Leonardo Di Vincenzo’s Birra del Borgo , the Falacrina project of Cittareale (RI) added to its activities the production of a craft beer, called Alta Quota. The concept of “terroir” is strong, which means the use of water from the Upper Velino Valley and the use of locally grown barley and hops.