16/12/01 XMAS 2001 in Lurago: the results

The second edition of the winter homebrewing competition (third national competition overall) took place with great success on Saturday, 15 December in Lurago at Birrificio Italiano.
You can find results, recipes and photos here: www.hobbybirra.it

07/10/01 Homebrewing Competitions: Roma cancelled, Lurago confirmed

The first homebrewing competition in center Italy, scheduled in Rome for October, 13 has been cancelled because of organization problems - that is, the actual availability of the place that was originally chosen. The event is posponed to spring 2002. Confermation for December, 15 2001 at Birrificio Italiano di Lurago Marinone (CO) for the winter competition Xmas 2001; for this event there are now almost complete informations. You can find news in: www.hobbybirra.it

28/08/01 A few days before Birrissima 2001

Just a few days left for this not-to-be-missed homebrewing convention scheduled for next September, 16! The program and the informations are in the site of Mr. Malt

28/08/01 GBBF 2001: Oakham JHB Champion, success for italian beers

The most important craft-beer festival in the world, organized by CAMRA took place as as usual at the beginning of August at Olympia in London. During the festival the best real ales of each type have been selected: overall winner was Oakham JHB that was so awarded the title of Champion Beer Of Britain
In the "Bieres sans frontieres" section of the festival - together with other selected top beers from all over the world - many Italian cratf microbrewed beers have been featured with great success both from critics and consumers (many were finished quite before the end of the festival!). Introduced by never-tired Kuaska and by Alessando Coggi, there were: Wayan e Noel by Baladin, Ghisa by Lambrate, Bibock and Cassissona by Birrificio Italiano, Sangre de Toro by Beba, and Formidable by Cittavecchia.

28/08/01 Piozzo Competition's Results

I feature this news with delay (the competition took place in July, 15) just to point out the success of this event, held during the "3 days" of Beer and Music organized by Le Baladin microbrewery. In the three categories of "freestyle", weizen and bitter the winners were Severino Garlatti Costa , Mauro Queirolo and Michele Santi repectively; this last won also the prize of Best of Show for his beer. All the details in:
www.hobbybirra.it/estate/

24/06/01 Next Events: the first news

Still a few days for the Summer Homebrewing Competion of 15/7 in Piozzo (see link in the home page), but work is already in progress for the next dates. The big news are about an autumn competition, at last out of northern Italy: the date is October, 13 2001 in Roma, at Stazione Birra (Morena) brewpub, where the third official homebrewing competition: "una birra per...l'autunno" will be held
Some details are still t.b.d.; you can find infos and updates here: www.hobbybirra.it/autunno/
But work is in progress also for the winter competition Xmas 2001: place and time are to be defined, but it is likely that the event will take place in December and wiil be again hosted by Birrificio Italiano di Lurago Marinone (CO)

Date and approximate program is now defined for Birrissima 2001, the most important national homebrewing conference: it will be held on September, 16 in beautiful Villa Manin in Codroipo (UD). Scheduled are speeches by Prof. Stefano Buiatti and Charlie Papazian, president of American Homebrewing Association; but there will be time also for discussion about present homebrewing situation in Italy, and for tasting of homebrewed and microbrewed beers, guided by Lorenzo Dabove (alias Kuaska).
All details on the site of Mr. Malt (the well known online homebrewing shop) which organizes and sponsors this event.

24/06/01 Beer Fest in Cavaso (TV)

The Beer fest will take place from Thursday, June 28th to Sunday, July 1st at the public sport fields of Cavaso del Tomba (TV): check here for details. The event is organized by the Soci dea Bira homebrewing club, but in this occasion it will be focused not on homebrewing but on good Bavarian beers.

13/05/01 May 17: Guided tastings at Birreria Busalla

On Thursday, May 17, at 9.30 p.m., at Fabbrica Birra Busalla, the famous Lorenzo Dabove a.k.a. Kuaska will perform a guided tasting of the beer range brewed by the brewery itself. The beers will be sided by focaccia of Genova, and the price will be Lit.15.000 all included.
I myself will be there and will talk about present homebrewing activities.
The Fabbrica Birra Busalla (Loc. Birra, 3 - Savignone (GE), Tel. 0109640161 / 0109641500) can be reach from Autostrada A7 Milano-Genova, Busalla Exit, 100 m from the exit, following the direction to Casella.

22/04/01 May 5-6, EBCU Meeting in Italy

The 23' meeting of EBCU will be held on May, 5 and 6 in Italy and will be hosted by italian beer association Unionbirrai.
EBCU is an commettee that gathers many european beer consumer associations, including for example english powerful CAMRA. From 1999 also italian Unionbirrai has been admitted.
The meeting will be held in a few of the best brewpubs in Northern Italy. There will be a press conference introducing this event on May 2, 6.00 p.m. at Birrificio Lambrate, via Adelchi 5 in Milan.

01/04/2001: Homebrewing summer competition

On 15 luglio 2001 in Piozzo (CN) it will be held the second italian homebrewing competition. The event will be hosted by the well-known microbrewery Le Baladin, and sponsored by the brewery itself and by Unionbirrai association.
The competition will obviously focus on summer beer styles, and the winners will be rewarded by prices offered by a few sponsors.
For news, details and competition rules: www.hobbybirra.it/estate/

09/02/2001: Success for Winter Beer Festival

Great success for the Winter Beer Festival of February, 3 in Cavaso del Tomba in Veneto. Organized by Soci dea Bira - a local club of clever and enthusiast homebrewers - this festival attracted hundred of people, maybe almost a thousand, which delighted on very good food and above all appreciated the high quality beer home-produced by "Soci" themselves
This event is happening every winter since several years, and is a private festival on invitation; it is anyway attracting a great number of people, so much that homebrewers and beer enthusiast have come not only from the surroundings but also from Genova, Torino and even Rome!
Next meeting at the end of next June for another festival, always organized by Soci dea Bira; this one will be a public festival, based not on homebrew but commercial beer - anyway a very good beer from a German brewery in Bayern.

09/02/2001: New Denomination for Abbey Beers

Besides the beers by the seven (or six..) original well known trappist breweries - directly produced in the monastery and/or under strict control by the monks, and labelled as "Authentic Trappist Products" - a new logo has been created, to be awarded only to some of the "Abbey beers": the "Belgian beer of recognized Abbey". These are beers that, though not produced by monks, are related to existent abbeys to which they pay royalties for the name, and sometimes using their recipes. There is not actual relationship to quality: e.g, the good Abbaye de Rocs is not featured (the style would be close but the name is not related to actual abbeys) but some more commercial beers are. Here are the beers:
Dendermonde (De block); Affligem (De smedt); Bonne espérance (Lefebvre); Bornem (Van Steenberge); Cambron (Silly); Ename (Roman); Floreffe (Lefebvre); Grimbergen (Alken Maes); Keizersberg (Van Steenberge); Leffe (Interbrew); Maredsous (Moortgat); Postel ( De smedt); St Feuillien (Friart); St Pietersabdij (De gouden boom); Steenbrugge (De gouden boom); Tongerlo (Haacht); Val Dieu (Val Dieu);
(source: Cyril Pagniez on rec.food.drink.beer)

08/02/2001: Pianeta Birra Fair in Rimini

It is the most important commercial beer fair in Italy.
Breweries (micros included), distributors and equipment manufacturers are taking part; many events featuring famous international beer experts. More infos here:
www.pianetabirra.it

The dates are February, 10 to 13, 2001

01/02/2001: CAMRA Champion Winter Beer

CAMRA Winter Beer Festival - which can be considered the winter version of G.B.B.F.- has ended.
Overall Champion beer has been declared the strong ale/barley wine Skullsplitter by Orkney's Brewery. See: http://www.camra.org.uk/site/news/janmar01/weebob.htm

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