Domus Birrae

Nov

18
'09

Ok, let’s talk about prices…

beerfund500_54257Inspired by the news of the 12 liters bottles of “Vieille of Bon Secours” sold in London for 700£, we had on last Friday one of the most interesting off-topic discussion of the Italian version of this blog: an a debate on craft beer prices in Italy.

I immediately want to make clear that in these lines you won’t find a solution to the problem, neither an analysis that finally clarify the reason for so elevated prices. For similar conclusions it would be necessary to carry out a serious investigation, since so many times we tried to unravel the skein without getting satisfactory results. It is not what I intend to do with this post. I will just write some remarks to reflect on, inspired me from so many comments read in these days. Hope these would be inspiring for you too, in order to have a useful debate on this fundamental topic.

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Sep

30
'09

Each beer has its own glass, haven’t you forgotten?

tekuIn recent days I happened to discuss with my friend Lorenzo about a rather delicate matter. Chatting about many topics we ended up discussing a habit increasingly popular with the locals, at least those of Rome: to propose a sole and only “measure” for the quantity of beer, often served in glasses quite different from the ones that should be employed. This considerations came out talking about the new Open Baladin bar where all the 40 beers on draft are served 33cl in the “Roman Pint” (miniature version of the English one) or in the now famous Teku glass. Both glasses are very good to taste some beers, but really not fit some others.

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Mar

26
'09

The importance of the label in a beer

stillenacht1Yesterday I was reading on Birragenda the impressions of Maurizio Maestrelli about Italia Beer Festival of the last week. Aside from considerations about the event, I was caught – and reading the comments I was not the only – on a brief digression on the labels of new born brewery Toccalmatto:

To my taste, are among the most beautiful and funny appeared in public for a long time now. Congratulations indeed to the whole team!

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