This post is a part of the 2015 New Beer Every Day Beer Diary Challenge, #ottbeerdiary. Over the course of 2015, I will be trying a new beer every day. Please read the background in the link above, and enjoy reading about the most recently tasted beers below. If you’d like to join the challenge as well, let me know in the comments below, and be sure to check out Grown-up Travel Guide and his #grownupbeerdiary, where Andy Higgs came up with the diary format in use below. You can catch up on all of our posts as part of the challenge under the tag ottbeerdiary.
Day 170: June 19, 2015
Diary entry:
We are currently in the Emilia Romagna region of Italy for this year’s Blogville project. We’ll be staying in Bologna, Rimini, and Reggio Emilia over the next two weeks, sampling the local foods, beers, and wines of Emilia Romagna. Follow along with the hashtags #Blogville, #inEmiliaRomagna, and #ViaEmilia.
We’re spending the weekend down in Rimini, where Erin is speaking along with Nick from Emilia Romagna Tourism at the Web Marketing Festival, and we are then attending the Al Meni food circus put on by Massimo Bottura from Osteria Francescana.
Erin and Nick did a great job speaking at their event, and then we went into town to our hotel we were being put up in, right nearby to the beach and the Al Meni festival, the Hotel Villa Adriatica. The hotel was only a hundred meters or so from Casina del Bosco, one of the best piadina locations around, so of course, we had to head over there for lunch. Seems like it was the place to be, as we ran into a number of the chefs who would be cooking at Al Meni eating there as well!
And what does one do after piadinas and beer? A few minutes rest, then off to wander the local products street at Al Meni, and then off for an apirtivo! We joined Nick’s colleagues from the tourism board for a delightful apirtivo at L’Angolo Divino, nearby to the famous Tiberius Bridge, and then back to the hotel and the festival to see some of the first evening’s opening events.
The Beer:
Name: Gradisca
Style: BlondeLager
Producer: Birra Amarcord
Alcohol content: 5.2%
Bottle size: 0.25l from a 1.5l pitcher
Purchased from: Casina del Bosco in Rimini, Italy
Today’s beer is Gradisca by Birra Amarcord, from perhaps the best piadina place on earth. Great with the piadinas. Rooftop table across from the beach. And the beer is quite delightful as well.
Commercial Description: This beer has a bright color and forms a light, compact head.
The flavor is full and rounded, with a pleasant taste of hops and a delicate scent of flowers.
It presents to the palate with a pleasantly fruity aroma accompanied by a refreshing aftertaste of hops that makes it particularly refreshing.
