What beer are you drinking now? #4501

Good morning everyone, Advocates.
This is a fresh hop IPA from a renowned agricultural brewery with production headquarters in the Veneto Region in Northern Italy, but with hops grown on their farm on the mountain slopes of Monte Tiburno, in the Campania Region (Southern Italy), at their "Tenuta SOLOFRANA" (where their vineyards of the "Coda di Volpe" winery are also located) located 35km from the sea, at an altitude ranging from 325 to 650 meters above sea level.

Birrificio Agricolo CRAK (Campodarsego, ITA) - GIANT STEP VERDE - Fresh Hop IPA (7.5%).

It's the version using freshly picked flowering hops of their award-winning 7.5% Ipa ("Guerrilla IPA") which is characterized by a fruity entrance that slowly fades into a more intense herbaceous one and then ends with a pleasant resinous bitter note, which leaves room for a more fruity aftertaste (exotic and summer fruit and citrus).

33 cl can (new format, until September 2024 their cans were only 44 cl) €5 at the beershop.
As soon as it was opened, it immediately revealed citrus notes and freshly cut wild grass, balsamic nuances.
When poured, it's a beautiful deep golden color, with orange reflections and not excessively opaque.
A finger of foam of little consistency is released with a vertical pour and remains there without disappearing on its own.
In the mouth, a medium-bodied beer in which the malty notes are perceived at the entrance, to then give way to these dense nuances that pass from citrus peel (grapefruit, cedar, red orange) to more herbaceous and woody notes (pine needles, freshly cut grass), to end with a bitter note that is not invasive, but very noticeable.
I liked the fragrance that conveyed a sense of freshness of the product, the fruitiness left in the background by more "old-fashioned" tastes and the bitter herbaceous note that remains on the tongue after drinking.
Yet another good beer from this brewery, the only flaw noted: a more lively carbonation would have helped, but by now I'm used to the fact that this element differs between their packaged beers and those tapped from their kegs.





Sláinte .
Cheers .

Ciao @mactrail,
I just wanted to enlighten you with a disconcerting truth.
Quoting the Advocate @Crusader (from Sweden), in reality everything that you mean as "Italian Pils" already existed for at least a century before (but even more, come on), as reported
"A Swedish encyclopedia year 1894 (- not better specified,but certainly reliable as per great ecyclopedic tradition-) :
"2) the bohemian type (pilsner), of weakly kilned malt with a rich addition of hops usually not only during the boil, but also during the fermentation in the fermentation or lager cellar: a pale, easy drinking, hop-bitter beer with vineous taste".
And consider that already the esteemed "Ernst Hantke (Handbuch für den Amerikanische brauer und mälzer, 1895) wrote on page 587:
"For some beers, which should have a strong hop flavor and aroma such as Pilsener beer, one adds fresh good hops in a sack together with the kräusen into the beer."................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. Incredible, but true.
Don't thank me, it's just a duty to inform in case you missed the Swedish encyclopedia from 1894.
Everything you mean by Italian Pils is just a commercial issue... I learned it here too (for free) from a Poo-Bah.
And now I have one more certainty in my life.

 

Bavarian Pils
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good morning & TGIF !

 

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Half a Cafe Barista by Kent Brewery. Coffee stout.

 

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Pint of some rebadged Greene King Cask.

 

Beelzebub
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Long day ahead of me so thought I'd stop by and have breakfast with everyone. Steak,eggs,and sunbeam pils

 

Teddy must be the best trained dog in the world! My dogs would have devoured that before I had the camera ready!

Looks good!

 

3 Locks Brewing in Camden. Lovely brewery along the canal in the center.

Gone for the Hefeweizen and it's not half bad!

 

Its one of his only well trained habits.he won't touch any food till I tell him its ok. Now the constant begging and annoying behavior before the ok i haven't been able to stop

 

Martian Moon House
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Impressive nonetheless. I would have been eating that before you got the camera ready

 

G'day all!

Cold weather temporarily replaced by windy weather. Bring back the cold.

I haven't had a Yeti in a while. I don't know why I don't revisit it more often; splendid Imperial Stout.

Prost!

 

Happy hunting at Fox Farm! Cheers!

 

Still at 3 Locks. Gone for the Helles this time. Nice view upstairs

 

Happy Friday/Valentine's day BA's! Fixin to shuck and grill some oysters with a Fat Head's Wicked Willy's IPA.