16/12/02 XMAS 2002 in Lurago: the results

The thirs edition of the winter homebrewing competition (fifth national competition overall) took place with great success on Saturday, 14 December in Lurago at Birrificio Italiano.
Many (51) beers competiting all in the Stout & Porter style; first prize to the Dry Stout by Ludovico Spessotto.
You can find results, recipes and photos here: www.hobbybirra.it

16/12/02: Pianeta Birra Fair in Rimini next Febrauary

It is the most important commercial beer fair in Italy. It will be in Rimini, 1-4 feb 2003
Breweries (micros included), distributors and equipment manufacturers are taking part; many events and conferences mainly organized by Unionbirrai. More infos here:
www.pianetabirra.it

26/08/02 September, Craft Beer in Trieste

The "Associazione Birrofila Triestina" organizes in Trieste, 26-29 september the "Festival della birra artigianale" (Craft Beer Festival). There will be a few craft and micro brews from Italy, Belgium and Germany. On saturday and sunday there will be a meeting of breweriana collectors.
For infos, please contact the president of the association, Paolo Le Rose

23/08/02 Beer at next Salone del Gusto

Also beer has its place in one of the world's most important food and dirnk events, organized by Slowfood (Torino, 24-28 ottobre 2002). Space (and time) devoted to beer has not beeen increased, but is nevertheless important: not only the beer stands, but many interesting "laboratori del gusto" (taste workshops), many of them featuring italian craft beers
www.salonedelgusto.it for all the informations.

23/08/02 October, Weizen in Mantova

Named "The Classic Weizen: Production Techniques - Chemical Composition", this will be a technical meeting for professional brewers, homebrewers and for everybody interested in lerning the production techinques of the classic weizen. It will be held in a Mantova, 13 Ottobre 2002 organized by Daniele Fajner, Marco Bellini e Ton Notermans, in cooperation with Unionbirrai and DICMA (University of Bologna)
The inscription cost is 60 euro (55 euro for EBCU members). You can find the temporary schedule is here: www.unionbirrai.com

23/08/02 Birrissima 2002

Just a few days to go for the traditional homebrewing conference, organized (as every year) by Mr Malt (Codroipo (UD), 1 settembre 2002). Among the guests, Charlie Papazian, guru and pioneer of modern homebrewing, sided for the technical part by Prof. Prof Stefano Buiatti, while for the tastings (craft beers, microbrewed and homebrewed) Kuaska will be supported by Tullio Zangrando and Mirco Marconi.
More news and the techinical papers here: www.mr-malt.it/birrissima.htm

16/08/02 Great British Beer Festival 2002

London Festival organized by CAMRA (6-10 august 2002) is maybe the most important international beer event: more than 400 british "real ales" of all the possible styles, all cask conditioned and perfectly seved; up to 200 of the best and rarest craft beers from all over the world; 45000 visitors who drank over 200.000 pints of beer. These numbers cannot however describe the quality of the beers and the atmosphere, festive but never chaotic.
During the festival the best british ales for each style (and also overall) have been voted: for the first time, the Supreme Champion Beer of Britain has been a Scottish ale, Deuchar's IPA.
Partecipation of italian craft beers has been cospicuous and well appreciated: Baladin, Birrificio Italiano, Panil, Lambrate, Birra Busalla, Cittavecchia featured some of the bottled-conditioned and casked beers (carefully seeved by volunteers Alessandro Coggi e Nicola Zanella) which have been well received by the public. Among the beer tasting and workshop, one of the most interesting has been the one devoted to belgian lambic, held by Kuaska.

15/07/02 Piozzo, Homebrewing Competition Results

A good success also this year for the summer homebrewing competition, held in Piozzo on July, 13 at the Le Baladin brewpub. The homebrewing contest was part of a very interesting and successful beer festival, featuring many other interesting events: a "beer & photography" competition, a conference oncraft brewing with important italian and international guests, tastings and more. Among the guest Jean Louis Dits (Brasserie Vapeur) and Tullio Zangrando, while Baladin owner and brewer Teo has been the kind and never tired host.
The Jury, as usual guided by Kuaska (Unionbirrai cultural director) tasted and judged more than 35 belgian ales, awarding the prizes to Sergio Sesia (from Sardinia!), Davide e Monica Bertinotti and Carlo Canegallo.

The details of the results with the listing of the beers and the best recipes are available at www.hobbybirra.it

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