Birrificio del Ducato

Regional Brewery in Soragna (PR), Emilia-Romagna, Italy 🇮🇹
Owned by Duvel Moortgat

Established in 2007

Contact
Str. Argine, 43, Soragna (PR), 43019, Italy
Description
Our beers are made of passion and knowledge, culture and innovation, memories and visions of endless worlds real and futuristic.

Giovanni Campari founded Birrificio del Ducato together with two other partners. Giovanni is still the brewmaster of the brewery, which officially began the production of craft beer on March 27th 2007 in Roncole Verdi, Busseto (PR). The historic production site was transformed into Sour Brewery in 2015, when we transferred the main brewery to the new headquarters in Soragna (PR). Here we produce the main beer lines, through a fully automated system, which includes advanced PLC controls and centrifugal separator. The brewery currently has a 60-hl 5-vessel brewhouse and a total cellar capacity of 1200 hl.

At the end of 2016 Duvel Moortgat acquired 35% of the shares of the brewery. In 2018 Duvel Moortgat acquired 70% of the brewery’s shares, investing its resources in a new laboratory and in a new bottling line.

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6.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Tap at Boreft Beer Festival ’12, Bodegraven: Golden clear coloured brew with an smoothly slightly sweet taste and an fine bitter finish.
Tried from Draft on 29 Dec 2024 at 11:39

6.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Bottle 0,33ltr: Hazy very dark brown brew with an roasted malts taste and hints of coffee and chcolate. This beer have a good Italian appearance.
Tried from Bottle on 29 Dec 2024 at 11:38

6.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Tap at Borefts’14: Golden colored brew that left the word "beer" out of fruitbeer. That fruit is lemon, this is only sharp lemon taste here.
Tried from Draft on 29 Dec 2024 at 11:34

7.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 4 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
Tap at ’t Uiltje, Haarlem: Opaque black colored brew with an dry bitter taste, hints of roasted malts, Italian coffee and some spicy pepper.
Tried from Draft on 29 Dec 2024 at 11:29

8/10
Wow. This is really good, once I realized I had the wrong beer. D'oh. Smokey, salty, and not timid!
Tried on 13 Dec 2024 at 18:31

6.3/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 5 Overall 6
Pours a moderately hazy pale golden, average sized white head, good enough retention and nice lacing. Quite good intensity in the aroma: citric fruitiness upfront (lemon/lime, tangerine, maybe a hint of grapefruit), moderate piney background, perhaps a lightly perceptible crackery malts base. Simple and reasonably fresh. Taste notes follow the aroma, quite good intensity, so/so definition. Medium sweetness and medium bitterness; balanced, semi-neutral mouth, a slightly unpleasant sweetish reminiscence in the aftertaste. Light to medium body, average, slightly coarse carbonation (kinda macro lager like). Overall: a very basic ipa, and not so good at that, mediocre but still acceptable.
Tried on 29 Oct 2024 at 17:58

7.5/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7
Bottle from House Of Trembling Madness. Clear golden body with a white head. Steady carbonation. Faint lacing. Aroma of white bread, sea salt and lemon zest. Flavour of lemon cake, bay leaf and brioche. Medium body with a smooth texture. Soft fizz. Sweet and bready.
Tried from Bottle on 07 Sep 2024 at 09:13

7.1/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 8 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Keg draught at Tønne, Leicester. Brownish red, clear with a small, tight and short-lived beige head. Earthy, bready qualities in the light aroma, some figs, some dark caramel. Sweet taste, very figgy, with hoppy bitterness creeping in for the finish. Body is pretty artery for the style, with slightly heavy carbonation. Some burned toffee and stone fruit in the aftertaste. A little light incharacter for a Bock.
Tried on 04 Sep 2024 at 16:46

6.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Bottle from Westhill Service Station. It pours lightly hazy straw yellow with fluffy white head. The aroma is fragrant, herbal, coriander seeds, crackery malt, peppery spice, orange blossom, tangerine peel, grain and hay. The taste is crispy, dry, some grassy bitterness, peppery spice, floral, fragrant, herbal, coriander seeds, soapy, crackery malt, hay and what bread. Average body and moderate, fluffy carbonation. Nice wit.
Tried from Bottle on 01 Sep 2024 at 14:48

7.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Bottle from Westhill Service Station. It pours essentially black with a lovely tan head. The aroma is dark roasted malt, bitter - sweet character, chocolate, coffee, toasted nut, praline, touch chilli pepper spice, some Muted smoke and liquorice. The taste is initially smooth, bitter - sweet, dark chocolate, toasty spice, slightly charred, burnt toast, dark roasted malt well judged chilli pepper spice, hint of alcohol, umami, liquorice, nuttiness and praline with a charred, roasty finish. Medium - fulsome body and soft, fluffy carbonation. Nice balance to it. Decent.
Tried from Bottle on 30 Aug 2024 at 14:24