Bionda Lager

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A classic lager beer produced using Menabrea's own strain of yeast, which has a bottom-fermenting tendency.

The first vital ingredient is pure mountain water sourced from the Alps, close to Biella. The water combines with selected barley malt and locally-grown corn (maize) and then noble Hallertau Magnum hops. The addition of maize gives a lightness to the beer both in terms of color and taste and also adds a hint of sweetness, which balances the bitterness of the Hallertau hops. The combination of these ingredients brewed by the master brewer with a recipe basically unchanged since 1846 produces a beer with balanced bitterness, a floral fruity nose and a delicate pale-golden color.

This premium lager is matured peacefully in Menabrea's underground cellars for 4-6 weeks. These cellars were hewn out of the rock beneath the brewery during the 1840s.