BOLLE DI MALTO 2023 - NATIONAL EXHIBITION OF CRAFT BREWERIES - VII EDITION

BOLLE DI MALTO 2023 - NATIONAL EXHIBITION OF CRAFT BREWERIES - VII EDITION

After last year's success with more than 100,000 visitors from all over Italy and abroad, 45,000 liters of beer dispensed, 80,000 glasses poured, 30 speakers for the States General of Beer, 40 hours of live music and 5 foreign and spoken languages (English, German, Spanish, French and Dutch), the flavor of BOLLE DI MALTO returns, the National Exhibition of Craft Breweries which for its VII Edition will be held from 28 August to 4 September 2023 in Biella . Hundreds of craft beers from all over the country, quality street food , live music with local, emerging and national artists and meetings with experts and taste workshops where you can experience local and national gastronomy. For eight days the capital of Biella becomes the Italian Capital of Craft Beer with 8,000 square meters of exhibition , craft breweries from 20 Italian regions , over 300 styles of beer , more than 100 varieties of street cuisine and 2,400 minutes of live music .

The strengths of Bolle di Malto are mainly linked to the rich offer and the typical nature of the craft breweries which this year represent a significant sample of the current Italian brewing scene with names such as: Almond '22 , Altavia , Basei , Beer In , Birra Perugia , Courmayeur Brewery , Ostuni Brewery , Vulture Brewery , Canediguerra , Croce di Malto , Elvo , Hilltop , Il Mastio , Jeb , Kauss , La Villana , Okorei , Otus , Piccolo Birrificio Clandestino , Rabel , Retorto , Un Terzo and a wall of thorns built to welcome the other host regions.

Added to these are street food which will offer the best regional and gourmet specialties within an urban environment capable of satisfying all palates, concerts and live entertainment which every evening will lend themselves to being the fundamental basis for tasting the beers present in the square in the best possible way and the courses and tastings which during the days of the exhibition will represent the ideal meeting point between experts and enthusiasts as well as cultural and territorial promotion events , during which the destinations of artistic and cultural interest which most value the local and regional context in which the event is inserted.

To make the event even more special, the launch of the second edition of the States General of Italian Craft Beer , created in collaboration with Slow Food Italy , during which a series of conferences, debates and speeches will be held in the Arena Bolle which will The meeting point between institutions, distributors, professionals and enthusiasts of the sector and above all a space for discussion both around the themes of tradition and the state of the art of this growing sector as well as the items on the agenda related to the agroecological transition and the new sensitivities that consumers and the market are expressing.

Thanks to this renewed partnership Bolle di Malto will be present at Cheese 2023 in September, will participate in the first Slow Food Italy event in Taranto in October and will play an important role at Terra Madre Salone del Gusto 2024 .

For the Councilor for Employment and Training of the Piedmont Region Elena Chiorino “ Biella is an all-Italian excellence that today needs to rediscover its identity: water. This precious natural element that flows abundantly from the springs of the area has made our products unique, such as, among others, good beer and the finest yarns. Initiatives like this with a strong identity character are precious allies for the territory in stimulating passion and pride in their natural peculiarities. Craftsmanship, taste and creativity: these are the greatest resources that Biella possesses and on which it distinguishes itself. Bolle di Malto is an example of this: from 2015 to today, the event has taken on national importance, bringing over 100,000 visitors to the last edition alone and transforming the city into the beating heart of Italian craft brewing”.

“ With the seventh edition of Bolle di Malto - declares Raffaele Abbattista , organizer of the event - a new phase begins, that of maturity. Aware of the work done to date, we have decided to tell the true essence of a voluntary association, a third sector body, whose sole purpose is the enhancement of the common good and social inclusion.

In fact, through an event like Bolle di Malto, which has tourism and the promotion of the area from a food and wine point of view as its objective, it can be seen that at the base there is the desire to overcome every barrier to achieve true social inclusion that allows people to be valued and put at the center, always. Hence the birth of the claim of this new edition "What noise does happiness have?"; we asked ourselves this because we deeply believe that happiness should be the common place (like a square) capable of expressing the freedom of the individual and the love of life in all its forms. I want to underline that we are proud that an event born with solid non-profit roots can generate prestige and representativeness of our territory, of the artisans and of all those who work in the food and wine sector. I personally believe that the balance between no profit and profit represents the highest form of participation capable of generating well-being for the community. If Bolle di Malto continues on its path of growth as a reference event in the Italian brewing sector, as we hope, we will work ever harder to achieve a great goal in 2025 (Bolle di Malto's tenth birthday): to become an international beer exhibition. We thank the institutions, the institutions, the private sponsors and all those who continue to be by our side. We are waiting for you in Biella, always, forever, free admission” .

THE SQUARE OF BIELLA

The heart of Bolle di Malto will be the square or the center of the city of Biella with the area of Piazza Martiri della Libertà and the surrounding areas which will be active every day of the event with free admission and with the following programme:

BOLLE OFF 28 - 30 August, tastings and cultural insights from 4 to 8 pm throughout the city of Biella. BUBBLES ON 31 August - 1 September from 17 to 02, 2 – 3 September from 11 to 02, 4 September from 17 to 02 in Piazza Martiri della Libertà in Biella.

Here the most attractive spaces will be located and in particular :

ARENA BOLLE , the area dedicated to tastings and cultural insights.