Chestnut beer
Chestnut beer is a beer brewed using chestnut flour .
Pietra
The first beer to be brewed from sweet chestnuts was Pietra , hand- brewed by the Pietra brewery in Corsica. It is a relatively sweet, bock beer- like beer with an alcohol content of 6 percent and a slight tannic acid content , which is noticeable in the taste. It is amber in color.
The production of Pietra started in 1996 in Furiani near Bastia on the French island of Corsica .
Castegna
Castégna is characterized by a slightly sweet chestnut aroma . It is produced by the Locher brewery in Ticino .
supporting documents
- ^ Pietra la bière à la châtaigne corse. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 7, 2018 ; accessed on June 10, 2018 (French). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Castégna. Brauerei Locher AG, accessed on June 10, 2018 .
