Do you know what does agricultural beer mean? The COBI disciplinary (Italian Consortium of Barley and Beer Producers) in Italy is clear and strict concerning this subject: the producers must use at least 51% of own produced raw materials, while the rest must come from members of the Consortium who respects the standards, with the aim of maintaining high the quality of the registered products. The Birrificio OI has joined the COBI Consortium, but it stands out producing the 100% of the raw materials used in the craft beer making, creating almost an unicum in Italy. Indeed OI, registered trademark and therefore a guarantee, means “Italian Origin”, so barley, yeasts but also the hop plants are cultivated and produced within the Oglio River park, in the province of Brescia. The result is a complex Italian craft beer, nor filtered or pasteurized, amber colored, endowed with a persistent foam which gives creaminess during the tasting. The bubbles are very thin, from the moment that Birra OI producer is a Franciacorta wine producers too, he wanted to transfer the typical perlage of the wine in the beer. The aromas are mainly of coffee and toasting, fresh and fragrant at the palate with a lightly bitter finale.

During the last years the artisanal beer producers have been multiplying in all the peninsula, because the industrial beer, subject to filtering and pasteurization, don't preserve all the beer natural aromas and tastes. Italy is a nation in which water quality is very high, so, starting from the prerequisite that beer is 90% made by water, Italian beer starts form a great base. Historically the Italian territory hasn't been dedicated to production of beer, ad it has always been focused on the wine production. Cultivations as the barley, hops and yeasts production have never been developed, as a consequence almost all the producers import the raw materials from foreign countries. The OI project has the aim to realize a 100% Italian and artisanal beer. The beginning was very difficult, the supplier insisted that it would be impossible to cultivate an high quality barley but especially hops in Italy. But ,after 3 years of experiments and territory analysis, 3 hops and a barley (Spring Barley Prestige Variety) perfect for the production of an agricultural beer have been selected. The beer has been called OI because this acronym is the dialect word to indicate the Oglio river, in whose park the raw materials which give birth to this beer are cultivated; moreover Oi stands for Italian Barley (Orzo Italiano) and Italian Origin (Origine Italiana). The result is an harmonious, genuine and high quality beer. In order to make it as pure as possible and exalt its aromas it is nor filtered or pasteurized, its amber color that mends of the sunset will amaze your sight; it has a fragrant taste of toasted malt; It has a fresh and elegant taste, with a perfectly balanced bitter shade. OI Beer: inspired by our traditions, produced using advanced technologies, dedicated to the lovers of the Italian "buon gusto".