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Volkan Awarded International Beer Honors

be2The Greek beer Volkan “born in Santorini” was awarded Product Innovation of the Year at the International Beer Awards of the Canadean’s 9th Annual International Beer Strategy Conference 2013 that took place from 14th to 15th May 2013 in Prague, Czech Republic.

Volkan competed with famous brewing industry labels, but the juries chose it for the beer’s unique recipe and quality. Petros Nomikos, creator of Volkan, stated: “We are very happy to receive this special award. Our goal is to support “act locally, think globally,” promoting the best Greek flavors and traditions around the world. Every Volkan beer represents our rich agricultural heritage and thousandsof years history, while supporting our islands’ agricultural traditions. Volkan’s three main ingredients are local, original and innovative at the same time as they have never before been used in a beer”.

Santorini Honey -at the end of the summer, the bees of Santorini indulge on the sucrose of wine grapes left out in the sun to mature. This grape honey, with its uniquely and intensely local flavor is added near the end of the brewing process, to ensure that its flavor is fully preserved.

Citrus Medica – is the oldest known variety of citrus. The citron’s flavour can be obtained from the fruit’s thick pith and skin, but he said the company’s supplier, Promponas of Naxos (est. 1913), meticulously extracts it from the leaves of the tree itself. They boil the leaves in alcohol and distil the essence several times in a 100-year-old still, a process similar to the art of perfumery. Promponas supplies Volkan with their unique citron essence on an exclusive basis.

Lava Rock Filter-The water with which a beer is brewed lends a lot to the taste of the beer itself. However, Santorini ground water is scarce and no longer suitable for brewing, due to its high salinity. Thus, in order to create authentic Santorini style water, he said, “We have taken basalt from the eruption of 1600 BC, rich in native minerals and created a special filter, developed exclusively for Volkan, through which all of our brew water is passed. The aim was to create water that simulates the ancient Santorini spring water and what it may have tasted like some 3000 years ago.”

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