Forget breakfast for dinner. How about beer for breakfast? On your morning toast.
Spreadable beer is a thing and it’s causing quite the buzz in Italy. Leave it to the inventors of pizza to produce another culinary phenomenon.
Birra Spalmabile is the genius offspring of two companies – Alta Quota brewery and Napoleone chocolate maker, according to Italy Mag. The creators say it goes well with cheese and can be used as a filling for cake. There’s two versions – one with a light flavor and the other a little more intense. Each variation of the sweet spread is made with 40 percent beer.
Alta Quota and Napoleone unveiled Birra Spalmabile at a famous food fair in Turin and it earned critical acclaim. It’s made from a pair of the brewery’s beers: Omid dark ale and Greta blond ale.
Alta Quota’s Emanuela Laurenzi told ItalyChronicles.com that those interested in a jar or two of the spread can e-mail an order to commericiale@birraaltaquota.it.
Consumerist did a little digging of its own. It reports that there likely is not a US distributor that sells Birra Spalmabilie, but the UK’s Selfridges will ship it internationally – for $51.
“We created a cream made of beer by balancing every ingredient we used and also by knowing the reactions are made by mixing these ingredients,” commercial manager of Napoleone, Francesca Napoleone, told CCTV. “So we’ve created a product which is very smooth and creamy, resulting, as the name itself suggests, in a spreadable beer because it can be spread just like a chocolate cream.”
Sounds like it’s worth the price – and the shipping and handling.