Disco Italiano x Birificio Italiano

Over the years, we have found that our Verdant house yeast strain is incredibly flexible. Yes, it can give rise to apricot and vanilla esters in our New England style beers, but it can also produce extremely clean and crisp sessionable ales, almost akin to a west coast yeast. It was this malleability that led us towards the concept of Disco Italiano (Pale Ale 4.8%).

Along with Agostino from Birificio Italiano, we devised a recipe that marries two distinct styles: Italian Pilsner and Cask Pale Ale. A true collaboration that has resulted in a clean, crisp, dry and refreshing Pale Ale that has a noticeable herbal hop character from the UK-grown Hersbrucker hops.

We achieved this by taking our base Helles recipe, inclusive of step mashes and a little mash out decoction, swapped in Golden Promise malt for the paler pilsner malt we would normally use and hopped it heavily with the wonderfully herbal and woodsy Hersbrucker. We then fermented it with Verdant IPA yeast and dry hopped it at the tail end of fermentation.