There\u2019s a Rodari\u2019s poem that talks about a man from Scandicci who would \u201cthrow chestnuts away to eat their shells\u201d, it\u2019s called \u201cBravi Signori\u201d, if I\u2019m not wrong. Well, we do the opposite, and we make a beer out of chestnuts: the CastagnAle, September\u2019s Bizarre. We dry chestnuts on the fire and smoke the malt with a mixture of orange peel, lemon myrtle, coriander, gentian root and, of course, chestnuts. We\u2019ve made it even more charming in the last year by giving it a slightly higher alcohol content and using a bottom fermenting yeast. The smoked malt will make it more dense and warm, Marco Carone, one of our senior brewers, explained. He said so and we did it! At \u201cCasali di Cartore\u201d, a beautiful restaurant owned by friends and immersed in the countryside surrounding our brewery, they serve our beer with a delicious and tasty spelt soup, from Monti della Duchessa. Another good local match would be with \u201cblucoli\u201d, a fresh, blue-veined cheese from Campo Felice dairy farm, that takes its name from the town where it\u2019s produced, Lucoli (Aq). Bonne d\u00e9gustation! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
There\u2019s a Rodari\u2019s poem that talks about a man from Scandicci who would \u201cthrow chestnuts away to eat their shells\u201d, it\u2019s called \u201cBravi Signori\u201d, if I\u2019m not wrong. Well, we do the opposite, and we make a beer out of chestnuts: the CastagnAle, September\u2019s Bizarre. We dry chestnuts on the fire and smoke the malt…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"categories":[1,18],"tags":[35,103,353,461,462],"class_list":["post-6486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-notizie","category-novita-in-birrificio","tag-bizzarre","tag-castagnale","tag-castagnale-en","tag-castagne","tag-castagne-en","category-1","category-18","description-off"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n