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Birra Mastino

Italy · Regional · ★ Award winning · Known for a full range of styles
★ Award winningKnown for a full range of styles

Birra Mastino brews in Bussolengo, just outside Verona, and takes its name and all its beer names from the Scaliger dynasty that ruled the city in the Middle Ages. The brothers Mauro and Oreste Salaorni opened it in December 2007 as Birrificio Artigianale Scaligero Mastino II, next to the family pizzeria in Mezzane di Sotto. In 2013 it moved to San Martino Buon Albergo; in 2015 Christian Superbi joined Mauro Salaorni as partner and the name was shortened. The focus is on bottom-fermented German and Czech styles, matured in horizontal tanks and left unfiltered.

12Beers
5Styles
5.8%Avg ABV
2007Founded
Consistency· share of beers above catalogue avg
25%
catalogue avg 45%

Beers by Birra Mastino

12 beers
Babbo
Babbo
Strong Lager · 8.5%
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Bern
Bern
Strong Lager · 7.5%
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Cangrande
Cangrande
Helles Lager · 4.8%
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Monaco
Monaco
Amber Lager · 5.6%
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Pils 1291
Pils 1291
Czech Premium Pale Lager · 4.9%
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San Zen
San Zen
Doppelbock · 7.5%
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Teodorico
Teodorico
Baltic Porter · 9%
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Brewery DNA

The recurring character behind the beers

Birra Mastino brew a broad range across 5 style families.

Signature · 12 beers
Lager 6IPA 3Wheat Beer 1Strong 1Porter 1

Across these 12 beers, 4 notes keep showing up:

malty
9 of 12 beers
bitter
6 of 12 beers
crisp
7 of 12 beers
refreshing
7 of 12 beers

Four notes carry across the range. That's a tight house style — most breweries in the catalogue share just one.

Compared with the wider catalogue of similar styles:

They stay close to the peer baseline on their recurring notes.

How we measure this

Two thresholds are at work here:

  • The signature list shows notes that recur in at least 6% of this brewery's beers. A low bar — enough to flag a pattern, not high enough to call it an exclusive trait.
  • The peer comparison below shows only notes where this brewery's coverage differs from similar breweries by at least 20 percentage points. A higher bar — enough to call a real difference, not a nudge.

A note can appear on the signature list without appearing in the peer comparison: it recurs here, but similar breweries do the same thing.

Brewery performance
How their beers place in the hopIQ ranking.
Top 61%
average beer performance
0
beers in the Top 100
4 / 12
beers above the median
#939
best ranked beer
Teodorico

Their beers place in the Top 61% of the catalogue on average, across 12 ranked beers. One clear standout well ahead of the rest.

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About Birra Mastino

Birra Mastino brews in Bussolengo, just outside Verona, and takes its name and all its beer names from the Scaliger dynasty that ruled the city in the Middle Ages. The brothers Mauro and Oreste Salaorni opened it in December 2007 as Birrificio Artigianale Scaligero Mastino II, next to the family pizzeria in Mezzane di Sotto. In 2013 it moved to San Martino Buon Albergo; in 2015 Christian Superbi joined Mauro Salaorni as partner and the name was shortened. The focus is on bottom-fermented German and Czech styles, matured in horizontal tanks and left unfiltered.

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Location
Bussolengo · Italy
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