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CRAK Brewery

🌍 Italy · Regional · ★ Award winning · Known for a full range of styles
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
29%
catalogue avg 45%

Beers by CRAK Brewery

7 beers
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CRAK DDH Pale Ale
American Pale Ale · 5%
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CRAK Imperial Stout
Imperial Stout · 11%
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CRAK NEIPA
New England IPA · 6.5%
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Giant Step
American IPA · 7.5%
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Guerrilla
Guerrilla
American IPA · 5.8%
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Mundaka
Session IPA · 4.6%
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Plain of the Po
New England IPA · 5.2%
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Brewery DNA

The recurring character behind the beers

Drawn from all 7 beers in the catalogue.

Brewery signature · based on 7 beers
Signature
What keeps showing up across their beers.
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.

Portfolio range
How broad they brew.
Varied7 beers · 3 style families
IPA 5Pale Ale 1Stout 1

A handful of styles across their range — a shared thread has to hold across each of them.

What sets them apart
Each beer measured against others of its own style, then averaged across the range. Compared with the wider catalogue across breweries making similar styles.
typical for similar stylesCRAK Brewery
in no beersin every beer
piney
in 4 of 7 · typical similar styles brewery: 1 in 5
Notably more piney than typical.
tropical
in 6 of 7 · typical similar styles brewery: 3 in 5
Notably more tropical than typical.

Across 7 beers in 3 style families, 2 traits still carry through — a broad range makes a shared signature harder to hold.

Brewery performance
How their beers place in the hopIQ ranking.
Top 50%
average beer performance
0
beers in the Top 100
2 / 7
beers above the median
#175
best ranked beer
Guerrilla

Their beers place in the Top 50% 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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