(Rome, ITALY) – Remember the interviewer from the Mikkeller video that I posted a few weeks back? His name is Alex Liberati, he owns Brasserie 4:20 in Rome (the interview location) and his own brewery’s beer is about to be imported to the States.
Four beers under the Revelation Craft Woodwork Series are slated to arrive this month according to the company’s importer, The Shelton Brothers: Base (a.k.a. Reference), American Oak, French Oak and Acasia.
Beer-Chronicles wrote up a story on the barrel-aging project a year ago as it was getting underway: “The production part seems already set to two directives: originality and collaboration, where the first is brought by the Woodwork Series, produced in Belgium at the brewery De Proef. The idea is very simple but innovative: to experience the effect of different woods in the maturation of beer, starting from a single base product. The base is a Strong single mart and single hop IPA, made with Munich malt and Nelson Sauvin (hops from New Zealand that many producers are recently fell in love with), very dry, with an alcohol content of 11% alc. This IPA is then aged in brand new oak barrels assembled in Sicily and never used before, which differ in the type of wood: French oak, American oak and acacia. The result is bottled in bottles of 37,5 cl [375 ml], a size especially designed for a multiple tasting.”
Look for these bottles to appear on shelves in the near future.