As lots of as 2,153 beers provided by 255 Italian breweries in the 45 competitors classifications, assessed over 2 days by 84 worldwide judges to choose the 3 beers granted for each classification. And an “outright” winner who, like every year, wins the desirable title of Brewery of the Year. Hosted as is now traditional within the Beer & Food Tourist attraction occasion – the eating in restaurants experience program arranged from 18 to 20 February at the Rimini Fair, the 19th edition of Beer of the Year – the competitors arranged by Unionbirrai which rewards the very best craft beers Italian business– continues to tape essential numbers every year, staying an essential point of recommendation for the Italian craft panorama.
On Sunday, at the end of the blind tastings by the jury, the awards event in the Beer & Tech Arena provided by radio speaker Lorenzo Dardano exposed all this year’s winning beers in the numerous classifications and the Brewery of the Year award. The title was won by Routine Laboratory, the brewery from Formello (on the borders of Rome, where the Magano dining establishment is likewise situated which integrates craft beers with great dining concentrated on fermentation and reuse of developing waste) formally produced in 2015 by Roberto and Giovanni Faenza, dad and boy, together with Edoardo Ribeca, after the very first years of activity as a beer company and little speculative lab.
Currently granted in 2020 and 2022, Routine Laboratory takes home 5 golds and a bronze for its beers in 4 macro classifications: Tupamaros (Light and amber beers, leading fermented, high alcohol material, hoppy, Anglo-American influenced), Rituals Ville Vol. 19 (Light, amber and dark beers, leading fermentation, from low to high alcohol material, hopped, of Anglo-American motivation), the Saison (Light and amber beers, leading fermentation, from low to high alcohol material, of Belgian motivation) and the Papanero Bourbon Bachelor’s Degree (Light, amber and dark beers, high or low fermentation, from low to high alcohol material, aged in wood), the Gose (Light beers, leading fermentation, low alcohol material, tasty and/or lactic, of German motivation) and the Black Belt, 3rd location in the classification Dark beers, leading fermentation, low alcohol material, of Anglo-Saxon motivation after the Ponte di Ferro by Turris Birra and the Blackout by Birrificio Rurale.
The acknowledgment, in truth, rewards the manufacturer who, in addition to having actually gotten the greatest rating with his beers with the very best positionings in 4 various classifications, has actually gotten medals in various macro-categories, specified in the guideline on the basis of some stylistic groupings.
Amongst the lots of awards granted, the biggest number was focused in Lombardy with 23 beers, followed by Piedmont with 20. Then, by variety of awards, Veneto with 13, Tuscany with 12, Lazio with 11, Marche with 10, Trentino- Alto Adige and Umbria with 9, Emilia Romagna with 8, Abruzzo with 7, Friuli Venezia Giulia with 5, while Sicily, Calabria, Basilicata and Sardinia with 2 each and Campania with 1.
