Crak the Rules 2023

Saturday 25 February 2023 we will celebrate 3 years Completely Independent:

– from 12 am in Casana (Padua)

– from 5 pm in TapRoom (Campodarsego)

– from 12 am in our shop online

Three years ago (on 22.02.2020) we decided to give up all our distributors and, through our online shop, create a direct relationship with all the best venues in Italy and with all of you who have our beers in your fridge at home.

– What will we drink?

We will celebrate with 4+1 new releases that will unveil and tell the story of a great new project that is taking shape, a dream that is about to come true.

Throughout the day on Saturday, Feb. 25, we will celebrate with all of our beers available in draft exclusively in cans, all at 6euro.

All new releases will be available from Saturday, Feb. 25 at noon in Casana and our shop.crakbrewery.com and from 5 p.m. in Taproom.

1 of 4: Luppoleto

After the first satisfactions came from the hop grove in Mount Taburno, we are finally ready to create a whole new one, on an area of about 5 hectares, the result of the experience gained in these years of cultivation and, thanks to the many trips between the Yakima Valley and the state of Oregon where we absorbed all kinds of tips and advice on how to best cultivate our hops, we will focus mainly on growing very aromatic varieties for our hopped beers.

The beer dedicated to the hop garden will be a West Coast IPA (6.5 percent) hopped with the great classics of West Coast beers-Simcoe, Mosaic and Amarillo.

2 of 4: Agriturismo e Malteria

On the fifteen acres of the new Farm, in addition to the seven dedicated to growing barley (and other grains such as spelt, wheat, and oats), there is an old farmhouse of about 2,000 square meters. The renovation includes a part intended for agritourism with four rooms to accommodate a maximum of eight people who will want to experience waking up in the midst of nature, literally just a stone’s throw from the hop garden.

The other part of the farmhouse will be renovated to house the malt house for the production of our malt, dedicating part of it to the production of special batches using the traditional method: Floor Malting.

The beer we have chosen to make to present this part of the project will be a DDH Wheat IPA (7.5%) with spelt added and hopped with Enigma, Eclipse and Simcoe.

3 of 4: Orto e Apiario

About one hectare of land will be dedicated to vegetable garden, orchard and apiary.

In the vegetable garden we will grow most of the vegetables we use in the kitchen at TapRoom and Casana.

The apiary now has 42 hives, all of which are inhabited and which, in addition to producing honey for our API Treatment®, are essential for the pollination of all the plants that populate and will populate the Farm. 

The dedicated beer will be an Honey IPA (8,0%) which differs from API Treatment® because ,the last uses honey to amplify hops’ scents and aromas, otherwise in this honey IPA we want honey to be the taste protagonist together with Talus, Nectaron and Citra.

4 out of 4: Vigneto

Three hectares of integrated culture vineyard.

We would like to mark time with a new and unique idea: the cultivation of a Glera grape vineyard surrounded by a 6-metre-high upright hop garden. In this way we should achieve a balance between shade and light, bringing our prosecco to an aromatic complexity and intensity unparalleled in the DOC denomination.

More than 2 km of hops will be erected on the estate to surround the vineyard in which the vines can flourish under unusual conditions: they will be influenced by a unique microclimate that will be generated naturally and will also be influenced by the aromas that the hops will release, so much so that we expect the vines to gain up to a month of maturity!

This is where our Prosecco DOC Tenuta Bembo will be born.

The beer dedicated to vineyard could only be a DDH IPA (7,0%) with grape must and hopped with Citra, Nelson Sauvin and Riwaka.

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All the choices we have made so far, made to guarantee you the best beers possible, have been great challenges to face, leading us to understand and think of beer as something completely new and different from when we started.

Self-producing raw materials makes us aware of what we are really doing and all the work that goes on ‘behind the scenes’ of beer production. It’s not ‘just’ a matter of selecting the best ingredients from the different retailers or brewers, we now start with the earth, we analyse it to understand how best to work it to get the most out of our barley, hops and everything else we grow.

We want to grow Guerrilla®!

– What will our kitchen prepare?

There will be two new products you will find exclusively for this event, a new Pizza Briciola and a new Briciola Imbottita:

– Pizza Briciola “3 anni di“: Cetara Tuna Fillets in Evo oil, mozzarella, Taggia olive, caper, spicy sun-dried tomato emulsion.

– Briciola Imbottita “Crak the Rules“: Lonza with slow-cured lard, roasted pumpkin cream, sweet gorgonzola.

The full menu is always available on our website:

Casana Menu
TapRoom Menu

Crak the Rules ✊