Ca' del Brado
Four members of a Bologna home-brewing club opened Ca’ del Brado at Rastignano in 2016, and since 2021 they have brewed everything in-house. They call it a cantina brassicola, a beer cellar: about 80% of the beer matures in wood, mostly in barrels that held wine, with the brewery’s own yeast. The range runs from Invernomuto, a farmhouse ale, and Nessun Dorma, an old-style saison, to Zena, a wild gose, and grape ales made with Lambrusco Grasparossa, Centesimino and Grechetto Gentile grapes. It brewed 500 hectolitres in 2025.
Styles brewed by Ca' del Brado
Saison
AleSaison: a dry, fizzy, peppery farmhouse ale from Wallonia, in table, standard and super strength. Strength, bitterness, glass and classic examples.
Gose
Wild & sourGose: a tart, hazy wheat beer from Leipzig, brewed with salt and coriander and revived after it died out in 1966. Strength, glass and classic examples.
Italian Grape Ale
AleItalian Grape Ale: beer brewed with wine grapes or grape must, first made in Piedmont and Sardinia in 2006–07. Strength, flavour, history and classic examples.
At a glance
- Country
- Italy
- Brews in
- Rastignano (Pianoro), Emilia-Romagna
- Founded
- 2016
- Owner
- Its founding partners
- Best-known beers
- Invernomuto, Piè Veloce Lambicus, Zena
- Visit
- Taproom and visits
- Website
- cadelbrado.it
Sources
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- Birrificio Ca' del Brado - Shop di birra artigianale del birrificio bolognese — Ca' del Brado
- Ca’ del Brado: la “Cantina brassicola” - Alimentibevande.it — Alimenti e Bevande
- Birrificio Ca' del Brado — Fermento Birra
- Dissapore presenta la sua prima Top50 dei birrifici artigianali italiani: ecco la lista | Cronache di Birra — Cronache di Birra