That is, the grab for craft beers: even winelovers fall for it, but it’s nonsense. Stefano Milioni is really sure of this.
A devil in the guise of a tempting angel prowls around the purest admirers of good wine and tries to steal her soul. His name, persuasive and emblematic at the same time, is “craft beer”.
It chills the blood when you see people who understand wine-and not from taking a hasty course, but from long militancy of tasting and experience-melting in jujubes just at the prospect of a taste of “craft beer.”
It freezes the blood first of all for historical reasons. Have you ever wondered why wine is a topic addressed by many religions (Christianity has even elected it as the mainstay of one of its sacraments, the Eucharist) and beer does not appear in any sacred text, not even in passing? The reason is very simple: to get good wine you have to coming to terms with the forces of nature, frosts, drought, rain, excessive heat, pests, pedoclimatic conditions, yields, etc. etc. That is, everything that was identified with “God’s will” at the dawn of time. And then, there are tight and never set times for harvesting, pressing, fermenting, racking, racking, bottling.
And it freezes the blood for technical reasons: beer is made when you want it and where you want it, you assemble the ingredients by having them also arrive from all corners of the world and its flavor profile (flavor, aroma, body, effervescence) is decided where you brew it.
The master brewer
Those who know about wine preach-and rightly so-that wine “is made in the vineyard” and shuns (or disputes) all wines, even if of great quality, smelling of being “made in the cellar.” But beer?
In short, those who love wine made by the “wise” winemaker, the one who is not afraid to fight with the forces of nature and who invents everything to bend it to his goals, should not so easily get excited about a product like beer (albeit “craft”) that is the result of the skill of an “alchemist” who calls himself a “master brewer.”
One must decide: either on the side of facts by measuring oneself against nature or on the side of “craft beers.” Terzium non datur.
