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CRAK Brewery

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

Founded in 2014 in Campodarsego, Padova — CRAK is one of northern Italy's most acclaimed independent craft and farm breweries. Known for intensely hop-forward IPAs and DDH (double dry-hopped) beers, led by the award-winning Guerrilla IPA: Silver at European Beer Star 2024, winner at Brussels Beer Challenge 2023. CRAK was the first Italian brewery to take cans seriously, launching a full canning line in 2018 and consistently ranking in Italy's top 10 on Untappd. Operates its own hop farm and maltings for full agricultural independence.

7Beers
3Styles
6.5%Avg ABV
2014Founded
Consistency· share of beers above catalogue avg
14%
catalogue avg 15%

Beers by CRAK Brewery

7 beers
CRAK DDH Pale Ale
CRAK DDH Pale Ale
American Pale Ale · 5%
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CRAK NEIPA
CRAK NEIPA
New England IPA · 6.5%
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Giant Step
Giant Step
American IPA · 7.5%
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Guerrilla
Guerrilla
American IPA · 5.8%
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Mundaka
Mundaka
Session IPA · 4.6%
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Plain of the Po
Plain of the Po
New England IPA · 5.2%
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Brewery DNA

The recurring character behind the beers

CRAK Brewery brew across 3 style families.

Signature · 7 beers
IPA 5Pale Ale 1Stout 1

Across these 7 beers, 4 notes keep showing up:

hoppy
6 of 7 beers
citrusy
6 of 7 beers
tropical
6 of 7 beers
fruity
5 of 7 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:

typical for similar stylesCRAK Brewery
in no beersin every beer
light
in 5 of 7 · typical similar styles brewery: 2 in 5
Notably more light than typical.
orange
in 4 of 7 · typical similar styles brewery: 1 in 5
Notably more orange than typical.
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 49%
average beer performance
0
beers in the Top 100
1 / 7
beers above the median
#474
best ranked beer
Guerrilla

Their beers place in the Top 49% of the catalogue on average, across 7 ranked beers. One clear standout well ahead of the rest.

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About CRAK Brewery

Founded in 2014 in Campodarsego, Padova — CRAK is one of northern Italy's most acclaimed independent craft and farm breweries. Known for intensely hop-forward IPAs and DDH (double dry-hopped) beers, led by the award-winning Guerrilla IPA: Silver at European Beer Star 2024, winner at Brussels Beer Challenge 2023. CRAK was the first Italian brewery to take cans seriously, launching a full canning line in 2018 and consistently ranking in Italy's top 10 on Untappd. Operates its own hop farm and maltings for full agricultural independence.

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Location
Campodarsego · Veneto · Italy
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