LoverBeer Nebiulin~a
(2012-2015 Blend)
Night eleven has arrived and I opened a bottle of LoverBeer, from part of northwest Italy known as the Piedmont region. After meeting the owner/brewer of LoverBeer, Valter at a B.United event many years ago, I had this selection on my radar and it has been one of my all time favorite beers since I got my hands on some just over 4 years ago or so. This brewery has always made some of the best sour beers I have had the pleasure of drinking and after chatting with Valter the owner/brewer it became clear that his passion for beer wasn't just in the final product but in every ingredient he sourced. Many of his beers contain fruit and when I asked him about the source of the fruit, he lit up with a big smile and started describing in detail the locations of his sources and the varieties that grow there. Feeling his excitement for native ingredients and having a bit of knowledge in the wine of the Piedmont region, I inquired if he had ever made a beer using the prestigious grape of the region known to wine drinkers as Nebbiolo. Again Valter grinned from ear to ear and explained that he was hoping to release soon his own Geuze style beer that he married with not only Nebbiolo but with Nebbiolo grapes sourced from the highly esteemed region of La Morra, Barolo in Piedmont!
Ok thats the backstory and a decent segue into the fact that in the future you will be seeing more of my thoughts on the wine sector of my cellar along with other foraged items from ciders, spirits, mead, kombucha, and other mixed fermented beverages of all sorts.
Back to the beer in the glass.
Nebuilin~a pours a rich copper, rose orange color with a quickly dissipating finger of fizzy eggshell foam. The nose has a mysterious complexity with hints of cherry skins, wet leaves, field raspberries, violets and wet roses. The palate is racy and focused with great structure and tannins that counterpoint the acidity and soft oxidative malt driven notes of old mushroom soaked lambic.
Burgundian raspberry, pomegranate, vinous cherry, dried raspberry leaf tea, dried woodear mushrooms, cobwebs, old wood, bitter orange peel, rosehips
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