A “beer” from the suburbs won gold at the World Beer Cup

2023-05-31 23:29:29

lost toysthe craft beer factory that was born in Caseros, Party of February Threeand has its plant in San Martín, obtained gold in the World Beer Cup which took place in the state of Colorado, United States. It was with the variety open sesame, its beer aged 24 months in white wine barrels.

“Making an extreme beer is for our concept that everything we say it has has to have, that is, if it has alcohol, wood, hops it has to be noticed, everything has to be balanced. It has to like it and have drinkability – drinkability, we make an extreme beer with drinkability”, he assured Sergio Pisa Picciani to the regional portal Reflejos de ciudad, responsible for the beer venture together with Ricardo Semilla Aftyka and Rodrigo Ian Loran.

“The winning beer had 24 months in white wine barrels, with spontaneous fermentation, that is, a beer that is cooked, the malts are mashed with water, boiled and sent to cool in a stainless steel pool. where the hot must enters at 100 degrees and is inoculated for 24 hours with all the microorganisms that exist in the environment”, stressed Pisa Picciani and added: “The winning variety is called “Abrette Sesame, version 1 and the label design did Martin Ron, one of the greatest muralists in the world; he was the one who painted Maradona near the highway, among other great jobs.”

The brewery, made up of the three friends, opened its second factory at Miter 4560 in December 2019, Party of San Martin. It was before the pandemic, when Lost Toys was growing and a bigger plant was needed, with an industrial system. The new Lost Toy bar opened to the public from Wednesday to Saturday and soon, celebrating its eight years of existence.

“The level of beers in Argentina is superlative. We have to be proud of the level of beer that we find in the country, with the problems we have with inputs, hops, malt, but even so, and all the local national product is very good”, valued the gold winner in the World Beer Cup, “a true madness that ends up giving meaning to all the effort and passion with which we have pushed Toys since day one”.

“Like most in the industry, the three partners began in the 90s brewing beers in their respective houses as a hobby, when there was no information that circulates today and also access to the raw material was very limited. They are self-taught. Everything I learned in the field was reading and thanks to the generosity of other colleagues”, expresses the project presented this May at the Deliberative Council of the Municipality of San Martín to declare them of legislative interest.

Finally, the founder of Juguete Perdido assured that “the beer environment is very collaborative, many plants are moving from other municipalities to here, to San Martín, which benefits us all. Among several of us, we can give greater impetus and achieve other goals”.

by RN

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