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 172: June 21, 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 we are attending the Al Meni food circus put on by Massimo Bottura from Osteria Francescana.
This morning we were privileged to attend the Dejeuner sur L’Herbe brunch at the Grand Hotel in Rimini, which I must admit, was one of the best brunches I have ever tasted!
After the brunch, we had to check out of our hotel, and head back into the old town for some Gelato that Erin had been craving the entire trip. From Gelateria Il Castello, next to the old castle. Delicious!
It was then time to leave Rimini, such a shame, but we heard stories of lots of traffic on weekends such as this, so we needed to get an early enough start to make it back at a decent hour. But first, we decided to make a side-trip up to Cervia to see if we can see the salt flats where the Cervia salt is made. We thought the visitors center and shop would be closed, but to our great delight, it was still open, so one stop on our itinerary for the coming week was able to be avoided! And to top it off, we had an opportunity to see the fishing boats in Cesenatico on the way up!
The traffic heading out of Rimini was horrible though, so we decided to back-road it the whole way back to Bologna, taking the Via Emilia through Forli and up the whole way. But we made it back in the end, and managed to have time to see good-bye to our housemates who were leaving the next morning, and say hello to some new housemates who had arrived over the weekend.
The Beer:
Name: Salinæ
Style: Golden Ale / Blonde Ale
Producer: La Cotta (Azienda Agricola Colleverde)
Alcohol content: 4.8%
Bottle size: 0.75l
Purchased from: Cervia Salt Flats visitors center
Made with the salt water from Cervia. Very tasty. A nice bitterness.
Commercial Description: A version of the La Cotta Marinéra, a product that was created by ‘harmonious meeting between Montefeltro and the sea, a beer elegant, fragrant and pleasantly bitter, with intense notes of iodine that releases very fresh. Marinera is the synthesis of the wise master brewers La Cotta that, by processing the valuable products from land, barley, oats and hops, mixed with sea salt, have created a beer from agricultural production unique, exclusive and very pleasant.
