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Menabrea Bionda Lager is a classic lager beer produced using Menabrea’s own yeast, which has a bottom-fermenting tendency.

Menabrea uses pure mountain water sourced high in the Alps, close to Biella. The water combines with selected barley malt and maize (corn) before adding 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 from the Hallertau hops. The combination of these ingredients brewed by the master brewer to a recipe basically unchanged since 1846 gives a beer with balanced bitterness, a floral fruity nose and a delicate pale-golden color.

This lager, like all of the Menabrea beers is matured peacefully in their underground cellars for 6 weeks. This beer has been matured in the brewery’s deep, cold cellars the same way for over 170 years.
(Now available in 6 packs.)

Produced using the same techniques and basic ingredients as the Blond lager, Menabrea’s Ambrata Lager differs by the addition of a proportion of roasted barley malts.

These roasted malts add both color and body to the beer and also an enhanced, more robust and complex nose.

Over the years, Menabrea’s brewers have created a beer with a little more alcohol than the lager for reasons of balance, and with an enhanced and more complex flavor profile.

This beer has a golden-amber color with bronze undertones. It has a rounded, robust, slightly toffee/caramel flavor and nose but has maintained a level of drinkability not usually found in amber beers.