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 180: June 29, 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.
Our final morning in Emilia Romagna, and Italy, for this year’s Blogville project.
The main reason we didn’t head up to Parma yesterday to see my family is that they had to pass through Bologna anyway on their way to Venice, so we agreed to meet up in Bologna at the train station this morning. They had spent the past ten days or so in various parts of Italy, such as Florence, Rome, Pisa, and Cinque Terre. It’s always great to see my parents and sisters, and of course, my niece 🙂 Glad we took the time to hold off on our departure to have some time together.
After they boarded their train to Venice, we head back to the Blogville apartment to pick up our last bags and head off on our long journey home.
A quick stop in Modena at the Ferrari store again to pick up something for Erin’s mom, and then we were good to go!
A nice drive up through Milan and past Lake Como and Lake Lugano. Coming down we had taken the Grand San Bernard pass, and we’d done San Bernardino a couple times on prior road trips, so this time we took the Gotthard tunnel for the first time. Beautiful lake views, but do beware the traffic!
By the time we were passing Luzerne and heading towards Germany, it was starting to get a little late, and we were getting peckish, so we decided to see if we’d need to take a break. We stopped at a truck stop restaurant south of Freiburg (which I must say, was much better than the on-road Autohof’s) and pushed through until we were nearing Mainz, around 1AM, when I hit my limit on driving for the day.
The Beer:
Name: Originale 4 Luppoli
Style: Pale Lager
Producer: Birrificio Angelo Poretti
Alcohol content: 5.5%
Bottle size: 0.33l
Purchased from: Rest stop on the Autostrada in Modena, Italy
A pretty basic lager, some bitterness. Not bad at all, especially considering the hour and how tired I was when I drank it.
Commercial Description:
4 Luppoli Originale (Original beer with 4 hops varieties) is a low fermentation lager with a particularly harmonious flavour.
Fruity aromatic notes sweeten its moderately bitter taste.
| Type | Lager |
| Colour Type | Pale |
| Foam | Thin Adherent |
| Aspect | Limpid |
| Colour | Pale Yellow |
| Carbonation | Moderate |
| Body | Light |
| Bitterness | Moderate |
| Raw Materials | Water, Barley Malt, Corn Hop. |
