Founded in 2008 in San Giovanni in Persiceto near Bologna — Vecchia Orsa ('Old She-Bear') is Italy's most distinctive social brewery: a cooperative that channels passion for craft beer into real employment opportunities for people with disabilities. The head brewer came to beer via sociology, not brewing school. Producing around 1,000 hl/year across 13 bottle-conditioned styles, the brewery earned four stars in the Slow Food Italy Beer Guide for its Belgian amber and placed fifth nationally for its powerful Stout.
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Founded in 2008 in San Giovanni in Persiceto near Bologna — Vecchia Orsa ('Old She-Bear') is Italy's most distinctive social brewery: a cooperative that channels passion for craft beer into real employment opportunities for people with disabilities. The head brewer came to beer via sociology, not brewing school. Producing around 1,000 hl/year across 13 bottle-conditioned styles, the brewery earned four stars in the Slow Food Italy Beer Guide for its Belgian amber and placed fifth nationally for its powerful Stout.
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