Proclaimed the best Italian craft beers. In fact, the winners of the Cerevisia 2021 award were announced at the town hall of Deruta, in which 100 labels from all over the country participated.
The Cerevisia award was established by Banab, the National Beer Tasting Desk, a committee founded on 30 April 2013 by the will of the Perugia Chamber of Commerce, now Umbria, the Region, Cerb, the Research Center for excellence. beer of the University of Studies, the Municipality of Deruta and AssoBirra, an association of brewers and malters.
"After the forced stop due to Covid of the 2020 edition, Cerevisia is back on the road" underlined the president of the Chamber of Commerce of Umbria Giorgio Mencaroni.
"We were facing - he added - objective difficulties due to the health emergency but the organizing committee strongly wanted to restart with Cerevisia 2021, to offer companies in the brewing sector a sign of closeness and hope for an effective resumption of business activities, among most affected by the pandemic emergency ".
On the occasion of the award - of which the Chamber of Commerce itself speaks in a press release - it was highlighted how the craft breweries that produce quality beers according to artisanal processing methods, represent "excellence" in the national beer world, a sector that has, however, "strongly affected by the impact of the pandemic". In fact, 2020 was defined as a very difficult year for national beer, whose production fell by 8.4%, consumption by 11.4 and exports down by more contained by 4.8%.
A photograph with a minus sign, reversed compared to that of 2019 which had set historical records in terms of production, consumption and exports.
In Umbria, as in other Italian regions, the micro breweries, after years of strong expansion - it was said - are experiencing a phase of adjustment. As of September 15, 2021, 24 companies in the sector were active in the Business Register of the Chamber of Commerce of Umbria, to which must be added the Beer Firms, which, having no own plant, produce their own beers from others. Then there are secondary productions connected to the activities of agricultural companies, wineries and the like, especially conducted by young people.
The Cerevisia award was born almost a decade ago to support this young phenomenon, support it in its growth, support it in the production paths inspired by quality, in which the Italian brewing tradition merges with innovation.
The winning breweries were: Birrificio del Vulture from Basilicata; from Calabria the Gladium Brewery; from Campania the Karma Brewery; from Campania the Monaci Vesuviani Brewery; from Campania the Incanto Artisan Microbrewery; from Emilia Romagna the Birra Amarcord Brewery; from Friuli Venezia Giulia the Cittavecchia Brewery; from Friuli Venezia Giulia the Foran Brewery; from the Marche the 61cento Brewery; from the Marche the Jester Brewery Agricultural Brewery; from Puglia the Rebeers Brewery; from Sicily the Etna Brewery; from Trentino Alto Adige the Lucia Maria Melchiori Sidrobrewery; from Umbria the Birra Bro Brewery; from Umbria the Birralfina Brewery; from Veneto the Acelum Brewery; from Veneto the Theresianer Brewery Antica Birreria di Trieste 1766.
The proclamation ceremony was attended, in addition to Mencaroni, who is also president of Banab, the national beer tasting desk, Paolo Fantozzi, vice president of Banab, Mauro Bacinelli of the Department of Agriculture of the Umbria Region, Ombretta Marconi, acting director of Cerb, Research Center for the excellence of Beer, of the University of Perugia.
After the proclamation of Deruta, the award ceremony for the eighth Cerevisia prize will be held on Wednesday 6 October in Perugia, at the Congress Center of the Umbrian Chamber of Commerce.