意大利马蒂尔德啤酒厂

我们将公司取名为马蒂尔德啤酒厂，是因为我们的办公地点设在托斯卡纳大公夫人马蒂尔德曾经生活过的地方-嘉诺撒城堡附近，我们的品牌也由此而来。托斯卡纳大公夫人出生在曼图亚（1046），是中世纪时候意大利甚至全欧洲重要的人物。她于1115年去世。

 马蒂尔德肖像

马蒂尔德大部分时候生活在嘉诺撒城堡，虽然现在有些荒废，但鉴于她的影响力，嘉诺撒城堡现在是一个非常有名的旅游景点。而我们的办公室距离城堡只有12公里。

嘉诺撒城堡

从马蒂尔德生活的时代开始，人们开始使用啤酒花生产啤酒：我们可以说，现代啤酒生产开始于1067年希尔德加德·冯·宾根。

在这之前，啤酒几乎是黑色的，泡沫很少或者根本没有泡沫，也无法保存。使用啤酒花，给啤酒增添了苦味，也延长了存放时间。

我们的目标是在酿造啤酒时尽可能地保持古老的发酵方法，就像1876年冰箱发明以前人们做的那样，尽量保持古老啤酒的原汁原味。

在加热发酵之后，我们没有将啤酒转移到其他容器之内，而是直接装瓶。我们也没有对啤酒进行过滤，因此啤酒保持正宗的原味。

我们生产的啤酒装瓶之后可以保存18个月，无需放在冰柜或冰箱里保存。当然，如果在饮用之前将啤酒存放在阴凉地方，比如地下室之类的，那么饮用的口感会更好。存放温度在15到18摄氏度之间好。

目前，我们与一位农民酿酒师建立了合作关系，采用他自己农场里种植的大麦来酿酒。

酿酒的意大利大麦

（中国进出口网整理翻译） 


We are four friends, with a great passion for beers. Our history started like home-brewers in 2003. In 2011 we agreed to turn this passion into a professional job. Created on the first of August 2011, BIRRIFICIO MATILDICO after all the legals and health checks has finally started his production in June 2012.
We call our society BIRRIFICIO MATILDICO because we choose for our office the lands of Matilde of Canossa, Grand Duchess of Tuscany, like our brand shows. She was born in Mantua (1046) and was one of the most important figures of the Medieval History, not only in Italy, but of all Europe. She died nine hundred years ago, in 1115.
Portrait of Matilde
The most important residence of Matilde is the Castle of Canossa, at the present day in ruins, nevertheless, due to her importance, is a very popular tourist destination. The Castle is just 12 km from our office.
Castle of Canossa
The age of Matilde is the same in which started the use of hop in beer's production: we may say that the “modern way” of produce beer started with Hildegard von Bingen, in 1067.
Before this date, beer was almost dark, with few or nothing foam and wasn't preservable. Hop use make beer bitter and preservable for many months.
Our purpose is to keep the original beer's process in top-fermenting, like it was from the beginning until the refrigerator's coming (1876), as much as possible
similar at old beers.
We doesn't use a second container after the warm fermentation, but we put beer directly in the bottles. We do not filter the product and it keeps its organoleptic properties.
Our beers are preservable for 18 months after the bottling and they doesn't need to keep the “cold chain” or be kept in a refrigerator. However it's better if you conserve them until the day you will drink them, in a cool and dark place like a basement. (15°-18° C).
Currently, we have created a partnership to improve our production with a farmer-brewer, and we use his barley cultivated in his fields.
Italian barley for italian beers.