Birra Moretti - La Rossa and Baffo D'Oro

Those who read this blog often (or at least as often as I post :P) will realize that I have posted Birra Moretti before, but not these two.

For those who don't check it that often, it's always good to remember... Birra Moretti is an Italian brewery founded in Udine in 1859, by Luigi Moretti, bought by Heineken in 1996.

While the pilsner version is commonly sold worldwide, these two 330ml bottles here presented are a little bit harder to find out of Italy. "Baffo D'Oro" (italian for "Golden Mustache") is the premium version of the regular lager, containing 4,8% alcohol and selected ingredients. "La Rossa" (or "The Red") is their red beer, with 7,2% alcohol and a very strong and characteristic taste.

These bottles were gifted to me by Lorenzo Toffoletti, brought directly from Italy by his parents, Antonella e Romano Toffoletti in june 2010, when we used to share an apartment in Augsburg.

Anyone who thinks Italy doesn't have a beer culture should try La Rossa and think a second time ;)

Link to the producer:

http://www.birramoretti.it/prodotti_la-rossa.htm

http://www.birramoretti.it/prodotti_baffo-oro.htm

Biere du Moulin - Ambrata

This 6,5% amber ale is a product of Panero - pietra italia diffusion, a family microbrewery in the province of Cuneo, Italy. One of the italian artesanal breweries that have been showing to the world lately that Italy can also produce good beer.

This 500ml bottle was bought in a supermarket in Pordenonne, while visitng Lorenzo with a few friends, for being an artesanal beer, it is hard to be found in regular markets out of Italy.

I've seen bigger websites about beer posting this beer as a product of Amarcord... though the website of Amarcord doesn't show this beer as a product (it always feels good when you are able to correct someone bigger).

Link to the producer: http://www.pietraitalia.it/Prodotti/BiereduMoulin/Ambrata/tabid/3224/language/en-US/Default.aspx

Splügen - Lager

Splügen is produced by the "Birrificio Angelo Poretti", a brewery was founded 1877. The producer claims to keep the original recipe, changing only the lable of this 4,5% Italian Lager along the years.

This 660ml bottle was aquired in an Italian supermarket in Pordenonne, last summer. The website of the producer contains some nice story over the brewery and the beer, worth checking if you can understand a little bit of italian.

http://www.splugen.it/

Rebuffone - Dark Ale

Rebuffone is a 6,0% dark ale produced by Manerba, an artesanal italian microbrewery localized in the region of Lombardia.

The fact that I only came across this corked 750ml bottle once, in a small specialized beer shop in Padova, leads me to believe that this is not a very common beer to find abroad. Also the price for this beer reinforce that belief >.<.

This bottle was consumed one night before I went to Oktoberfest, together with Conrad, a good friend from the university in Brazil, who is also living in Germany and dropped by for a short visit.

Link to the producer: http://www.manerbabrewery.it/pagina.php?idp=116&lingua=1

Birra Moretti - Doppio Malto

This is a 330ml bottle of 7,0% ale beer produced by one of the most famous Italian breweries. Though the Pilsen version of Birra Moretti is sold in several countries, I have never seen this one out of Italy, and bought this one in a three pack, again associated to Andreas, a good bavarian beer-lover friend, in a trip to Italy last August.

The english website of Birra Moretti doesn't bring this type of beer, so the link below will redirect you to the Italian website... when I post the Birra Moretti Pilsen, I'll give the link to the english website, so more people can read it without google translator ^^.

Link to the producer: http://www.birramoretti.it/prodotti_doppio-malto.htm

Celtica - Lager

This is a 330ml bottle of an Italian Lager beer (5,2% alcohol). Some Italian micro breweries have been surprising their costumers with some good quality beer in the last years.

Celtica is quite common in Italian supermarkets though, I don't know if it classifies as one of those micro breweries, in fact, I bought it in a big supermarket in Pordenonne, Italian city where a good friend and notorious colaborator of my colection lives. It is produced in the province of Potenza, Basilicatta region.

Link to the producer: http://www.anticaricettaceltica.com/