BIRRIFICIO AGRICOLO BALADIN - Baladin Indipendente Italian Farm Brewery Oxpera

Birra Baladin Oxpera Gastronomic Ale shows an intense copper colour, enlivened by a fine perlage, and a light and evanescent hazy white head.

The distinctive scents of pastries and candiedpanettone are pleasantly refreshed by a balsamic note of beer vinegar, with gentle aromatic touches of cereals.

The first sip surprises for its clean taste and complex aromas with the acetic notes that emerge immediately accompanied by sweet notes of dry pastries and malt.

The finish of Birra Baladin Oxpera ends with a perfectly clean touch of bitterness, with gentle hints of tannin and wood that come from the barrels where the malt vinegar has been aged for a long time.

Oxpera offers a great taste experience given by the combination of two Italian products: Baladin craft beer and malt vinegar (made from Baladin beer) aged in oak and acacia barrels at the San Giacomo vinegar works in Novellara.

Technial Notes:

Oxpera is not bottle conditioned. As opposed to other Baladin's bottled beers, Oxpera - for technical reasons - does not undergo a bottle refermentation, in order to avoid an excessive development of the acetic component.

The beer is mixed with the beer vinegar about two days before the end of the fermentation process at 25 °C. This ensures that the CO2 (carbon dioxide) produced during the fermentation can saturate the fermentation vat and thus inhibit the growth of the acid bacteria contained in the vinegar.

At the end of the fermentation, the beer is transferred to a maturation vat, where it is kept for three weeks at 0 °C. This period of rest - during which the beer is carefully purged - ensures the natural clarification of the beer and the elimination of residual biomass (lees).

When the beer is bottled, no additional sugars of yeasts are added. The focus is on making sure that no residual oxygen is trapped inside the bottle, as this would cause the growth of acid bacteria.

Birra Baladin Oxperaer en strong Ale i kobber farve med et fyldigt hvidt skum. Aromaen har noter af kage og kaniserede panettone (en Italiansk kage) som er forfrisket af Balsamicoeddike…