Extra-Dry Pilsner with gold ingot colour and a delicate white foam head. Lager with a pleasant malty taste and zesty and pine-like hop aroma with lingering dryness. A feverish showdown under sun. Aim for the heart!

“Every town has a boss.” - The Man With No Name other than Joe

After World War II, the Italian film industry developed the neorealism also known as the Italian Golden Age with the use of non-professional actors portraying realistic, everyday scenarios of lower-class people in the devastated post-war Italian society. This national film movement had a remarkable impact on the consequent Italian cinema between 1964 and 1978, when Spaghetti Westerns were created and shot at the Cinecittà studios in Rome and various outdoor-filming locations in southern Italy and Spain.

In contrast to the ideals of American Westerns, such as freedom, and fighting for justice and a better future, Spaghetti Westerns focused on dark humour, violent scenes, and cynical, self-interested anti-heroes. In terms of visual style, this subgenre of Western films was heavily influenced by violent action sets, dusty, dry, earthy colour schemes and textures, as well as Roman Catholic iconography and a continuous fast pace.

The most famous Spaghetti Westerns were directed by Sergio Leone and scored by Ennio Morricone in the mid 1960’s, notably the Dollars Trilogy, i.e. A Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More (1965), and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), the latter being originally influenced by the Chanbara film (Samurai film), Yojimbo, by Akira Kurosawa (1961).

Leone’s films utilized a variable and innovative camera filming technique, with juxtapositions between wide shot, medium shot, close-up, and extreme close-up, focusing on the characters’ faces and corporeal reactions, with Ennio Morricone’s compositions as a backdrop, an intertwinement of quirky and sacral dramatizing soundscapes built by triads, and continuous rhythmic ostinatos. Along with the use of instruments like Fender electric guitar executing discordant reverb and vibrato, trumpets, harps, the human voice delivering melodic whistles, and cinematic devices like gunshots, Morricone created a unique style which deeply influenced the film score music of the entire 1960’s and mid 1970’s.

This is Tapp’78, our X-Dry Lager and allegorical liquid interpretation of the anti-hero nature of the Spaghetti Western-a showdown between our multi-layered everyday life and our own human ideals. We all are the Good, the Bad and the Ugly. We just are what we believe we are.