Recently we were invited on a press meeting in Acciaiolo, near Pisa, by Caseificio Busti, a well known local producer of Pecorino Toscano DOP, made of sheep’s milk and in many varieties. We had an opportunity to see our friend Stefano Busti, who owns the Dairy, the retail store and the restaurant “Il Rifocillo” and to meet Mr Charles Scicolone and his wife Michele.
Charles is a famous Wine and Beer writer and Michele a Food writer and Editor from New York; he has written articles on wine that have appeared in american magazines as Sante, Beverage Media, Wine Enthusiast and Gourmet. In addition he writes on wine for i-Italy and his own blog. He has appeared on radio and television programs, among them: Emeril Live, Ciao Italia, and Cooking Live.
Stefano Busti gave us the opportunity, during the tasting to accompany his cheeses with our craft beers J63 and, consequently, to make us known not only as a craft brewery but also as a winery.
J63 craft beer is made with barley grown in the fields of our Estate and the production takes place inside of the J63 Craft Agricultural Brewery, a country house inside of Torre a Cenaia. The beer is not pasteurized or filtered because is craft.
Based on the cheeses proposed by Stefano, we have chosen which beers to bring among all those we produce, so we decided to let our American guests taste: the JPils, a low fermented beer style Pilsner made from water, barley, malt, hops; the JLips, made from water, barley malt, wheat flakes, hop yeast and Vermentino grape must 5% Style Italian Grape Ale;
the JRubra made from water, barley, hop, Style Doppeblock and the JBlack made from water, barley, malt, coco beans, hop, Style Belgian Dubbel.
We were very happy to spend a nice lunch time with our local producer friends and with these fantastic guests from the United States that I hope to see again soon.
A few days ago I received a gift that made me so much pleasure, I received an email from Mr.Scicolone telling me to click a link to go read the article he wrote about us on his personal blog: this made me really proud and grateful…thank you Charles, you and Michele will be welcome to Torre a Cenaia when you return to Tuscany
