Birrificio San Quirico

Birrificio San Quirico (San Quirico Brewery) was founded in 2008 in Tuscany in the heart of Val d'Orcia, an area of absolute beauty designated by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. A small but excellent artisanal enterprise that uses carefully selected local raw materials to produce its craft beers, without resorting to the use of preservatives, flavors or chemical additives.

The labels of Birrificio San Quirico are produced in limited quantities and embody the values that this territory has always represented: history, nature, culture and a charm that are unique in the world.

The beginning of Birrificio San Quirico story reveals our goal: we did not choose a product and then looked for the ingredients to do it, but we selected "our" ingredient around which we have built a top-quality product. As our name itself indicates, the connection with our land is not only a geographical element, but also the past that we carry inside and the future to which we look. The brewery's project was born of the desire to give value to a product, the cereals of the Val d'Orcia, which speaks of the history of these lands, once called the "wheat belt of Tuscany".

The cereals of the Val d'Orcia

First of all the barley from which the malt for beer derives, have been considered of extreme quality since the time of the Medici. Our idea was therefore to create a new product starting from an ancient ingredient and that has encouraged us to develop a craft beer, in a small area of the Tuscan countryside, that has a wine vocation, nestled between Montalcino, Montepulciano and Orcia DOC.

Thus, in 2008, the first plant was built in an extremely suggestive location: an ancient medieval building in the historic center of San Quirico d'Orcia, located along the route of the Via Francigena and originally intended as a rest station for pilgrims in transit.

And, like the pilgrims, we have come a long way since then.

CRAFTMANSHIP

Craftsmanship for us is not just a way of production, but it is a company philosophy

The first big difference between craft and industrial beers lays, of course, in the production process: in industrial beers it includes two phases that are not in craft production: pasteurization and filtration.

These two phases are aimed at obtaining a longer storage period and to standardize the taste, eliminating any natural variations, which, instead, remain in craft beer, enhancing all the flavors and aromas of its ingredients.

Moreover, the absence of these two phases is the reason why our beers do not have added carbon dioxide, in fact, since they are not pasteurized, the remaining yeasts themselves naturally produce the carbon dioxide that makes our bubbles.

But for us craftsmanship also lies in the very close relationship with our land and its products, which become distinctive ingredients of beers that are always unique and original.

Finally, craftsmanship is in the obsessive care that we put even in the small details, not only of our products and their packaging, but also of our collaborations and synergies and in the relationship with the people who work and grow in our brewery.

VAL D’ORCIA

The Val d'Orcia is a magical place, where it is easy to get lost, but even easier to find yourself, in which to rediscover our connection with nature and in which to appreciate the positive aspects of human intervention on the landscape.

UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITE

The Val d'Orcia Park, recognized in 2004 as UNESCO World Heritage Site, has in fact been awarded precisely because it is an exceptional example of redesign of the landscape and, as such, is dotted with suggestive corners and views, enchanting villages and natural terraces overlooking its valley, but also of precious crops, typical products and biodynamic companies more and more innovative.

LOCAL INGREDIENTS

Our personal bond with this land is evident in every key aspect of the company: from the name, to the logo (which recalls the sweetness of our hills and our wheat), to the headquarters (which was originally on the Via Francigena route), to the names of the first beers (all dedicated to women we were central characters in the history of the Val d'Orcia), but above all from the careful selection of local products used as basic ingredients of our beers, without the use of preservatives, flavorings and chemical additives.

This selection of local ingredients prominently features of course the two-row barley of the Val d'Orcia, but it also extends to continuously researching the use of native plants and typical local spices in the recipes of our beers, as it has happened with Athemisia, produced with "Arthemisia Cretacea" a plant typical of the Val d'Orcia or with Catharina flavored with the secret combination of spices used to produce panforte, a traditional ancient Sienese cake.

AFTER-SALES