Angelo Poretti 4 Luppoli Originale

by Birrificio Angelo Poretti (Carlsberg)

This is another beer I’d come across in our travels that I enjoyed, so of course thought one day I’d include it in a monthly pack.  And this is the month.

Angelo Poretti was a Italian entrepreneur who’s travels took him to Austria, Germany and the Czech Republic.  Impressed by the clean, crisp lagers and pilsners on offer he decided to set up his own brewery in the mountainous Lombardy region of northern Italy.

The brewery stayed in the family after Angelo’s passing, was later sold to another Italian family before being acquired by Carlsberg in 1982.

There are seven different beers in the Angelo Poretti Luppoli series, ranging from different lagers through bocks, a saison and even a champagne-style beer.  But our beer is the flagship Italian pale lager.

It pours a clear golden straw colour, with a citrus hop aroma from the four different hops (Columbus, Hercules, Zeus and Italian-grown Cascade) which is a little different for a lager.  The taste is clean and fairly crisp, with a little bready sweetness early on, giving way to some hop bitterness.

This beer is tasty, easy drinking but interesting enough to finish it and look for another.  I can only imagine the experience would be enhanced at the brewery with a view of the Italian Alps; I think I was in Naples which was a different vibe!

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