Birra del Borgo
Microbrewery
in Borgorose (RI),
Lazio,
Italy 🇮🇹
Owned by
Anheuser-Busch InBev
Associated Venue: L'Osteria di Birra del Borgo
- Out of business
Established in 2005
Contact
Description
In 2005, Leonardo Di Vicenzo opened Birra del Borgo’s first brewery, Collerosso, in Borgorose, a small village located in the Valle del Salto, in province of Rieti, on the border between Lazio and Abruzzo. 2009 marked a watershed for Birra del Borgo with the opening of our new brewery. Moving out of our one-room space at Collerosso and into a modernized facility, our new brewery became the heartbeat of the company and cleared a way to fulfilling our brewing ambitions.
In 2015 Collerosso brewery begins new life. We rethought it entirely to pursue a new journey of research and discovery: Spontaneous Fermentation. Allowing wild yeast in the air to ferment the beer directly in the Coolship, marked an important milestone in our journey. Indeed, Collerosso and these beers represent our feeling to always change, to always strive to discover more. We are always restless and eager to see things from a different, unique, new perspective.
In 2016 Birra del Borgo was bought for 100% by AB InBev.
In 2015 Collerosso brewery begins new life. We rethought it entirely to pursue a new journey of research and discovery: Spontaneous Fermentation. Allowing wild yeast in the air to ferment the beer directly in the Coolship, marked an important milestone in our journey. Indeed, Collerosso and these beers represent our feeling to always change, to always strive to discover more. We are always restless and eager to see things from a different, unique, new perspective.
In 2016 Birra del Borgo was bought for 100% by AB InBev.
3.6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 3
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 3.5
An unclear brown beer with a brown head. The aroma is acidic with notes of celery and sulphur, and so is the flavor, leading to a dry end.
Tried
on 16 Feb 2006
at 17:28
5.1/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
An unclear light orange beer with a thin white head. The aroma is fruity, yeasty, and spicy, while the flavor is sweet malty with light notes of spices and citrus. The body is thin inspite of the 6.2% ABV.
Tried
on 16 Feb 2006
at 17:27
4.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
[Re-rate in Copenhagen from bottle, brought by the brewer] An undlear orange beer with a nice off-white head. The aroma is sweet with strong notes of yeast, but also light notes of oranges, while the flavor is sweet with lots of citrusfruit notes: oranges, lemon, and grapefruit, but also notes of caramel. The body is thin. As I expected in London, something must have been wrong over there - it is still nothing special - but it is far from bad.
[At GBBF 2005] An unclear orange beer with a white head. The aroma stings the nose with acidic notes combined with notes of yeast. The flavor is off - acidic with a few fruity notes of peaches. I hope it is the transportation to London that put this beer off. [3/3/2/3/4]
[At GBBF 2005] An unclear orange beer with a white head. The aroma stings the nose with acidic notes combined with notes of yeast. The flavor is off - acidic with a few fruity notes of peaches. I hope it is the transportation to London that put this beer off. [3/3/2/3/4]
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Dec 2005
at 11:09
3.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 2
Overall 3
Cask at GBBF 2005. It was amusing watching everyone’s reaction to this beer as they took their first whiff of it. Everyone agreed that it was certainly unique. Aroma of smokey paint with some hop, cloudy amber in colour with a sour flavour and a hint of lemon. Not sure the maker of this had ever tasted beer before.
Tried
from Cask
on 07 Aug 2005
at 09:16