Opperbacco
Opperbacco, an essential yet strongly illustrative name, a name that speaks of a fortuitous and happy encounter between hops (in English: hop) and the god of wine, intoxication, and ambiguity. And indeed in the identifying logo of the brewery (a bright reference to Caravaggio), the god Bacchus holds a beer mug, not a wine glass! But Opperbacco is above all the celebration of the meeting of Luigi Recchiuti, a highly skilled master brewer with the fascinating, intriguing, and versatile world of beer. Luigi Recchiuti graduated in Agricultural Sciences from the University of Bologna, but he got a bit bored with being an agronomist, so he indulged in homebrewing. After a few more experiments and a lot of passion, Luigi finally realizes he wants to be a brewer when he grows up. The economic feasibility is meticulously studied with the help of his wife and with the consultancy of Leonardo di Vincenzo, and in the end, the possibility of opening a brewery becomes more and more concrete.
that becomes a reality in every sense in 2009, precisely on February 3rd with the first brew. The production plant of 20 hectoliters was built following Luigi's engineering designs: just two tanks with a single pump, simple and essential, like brewing beer at home, but on a larger scale! Opperbacco is located in Notaresco, a small town in the Teramo area, in Abruzzo overlooking the Adriatic Sea where the typical crops are olives, vineyards, and cereal fields; right here shines a glimmer of all things brewing. For your information, not far from the brewery, you can find an AgriPub of the same ownership, equipped with excellent taps and local food.
Luigi Recchiuti, in carrying forward the recipes of Opperbacco, focuses on experimentation, but not for its own sake, an innovative research always aimed at creating convincing, finished, clean beers: “I don’t like people paying for my experiments as if they were ready beers, it’s not right” (The Pleasure of Beer, 2017). The Opperbacco beer line boasts great production versatility, from
Opperbacco, an essential yet strongly illustrative name, a name that speaks of a fortuitous and happy encounter between hops (in English: hop) and the god of wine, intoxication, and ambiguity. And indeed in the identifying logo of the brewery (a bright reference to Caravaggio), the god Bacchus holds a beer mug, not a wine glass! But Opperbacco is above all the celebration of the meeting of Luigi Recchiuti, a highly skilled master brewer with the fascinating, intriguing, and versatile world of beer. Luigi Recchiuti graduated in Agricultural Sciences from the University of Bologna, but he got a bit bored with being an agronomist, so he indulged in homebrewing. After a few more experiments and a lot of passion, Luigi finally realizes he wants to be a brewer when he grows up. The economic feasibility is meticulously studied with the help of his wife and with the consultancy of Leonardo di Vincenzo, and in the end, the possibility of opening a brewery becomes more and more concrete.
that becomes a reality in every sense in 2009, precisely on February 3rd with the first brew. The production plant of 20 hectoliters was built following Luigi's engineering designs: just two tanks with a single pump, simple and essential, like brewing beer at home, but on a larger scale! Opperbacco is located in Notaresco, a small town in the Teramo area, in Abruzzo overlooking the Adriatic Sea where the typical crops are olives, vineyards, and cereal fields; right here shines a glimmer of all things brewing. For your information, not far from the brewery, you can find an AgriPub of the same ownership, equipped with excellent taps and local food.
Luigi Recchiuti, in carrying forward the recipes of Opperbacco, focuses on experimentation, but not for its own sake, an innovative research always aimed at creating convincing, finished, clean beers: “I don’t like people paying for my experiments as if they were ready beers, it’s not right” (The Pleasure of Beer, 2017). The Opperbacco beer line boasts great production versatility, from
