We share our experiences in the Technical Days 2018 of the Generalitat of Catalonia

The organic agricultural production sector is growing progressively, both in the number of operators and in the number of consumers who a13> demand organic products.
More and more citizens are becoming aware of ecology, who a6> incorporate into their weekly shopping basket, organic and locally sourced products.

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We attended Onda Cero Catalunya’s ‘La Ciutat’ program with Mònica Gunther. Listen to the interview here.

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Dinner with the Minister of Business and Knowledge (Àngels Chacón), the Director General of Business and Knowledge in Lleida (Ramon Alturo), and the Mayor of Almacelles (Josep Ibarz). At La Tabola restaurant in Almacelles.

Interview with Quiònia Pujol

CO-OWNER OF FARMBREWERY LO VILOT, WINNER OF THE BBVA QUINTANES PRIZE

“You have to believe in your project”

Lo Vilot elaborates ‘farm beer’

The Vilot is defined as farm beer. How is it different from the rest?
-We speak of a brewing farm because here all the necessary ingredients are produced and transformed to produce our craft beers. We have an ecological and gluten-free certificate.

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Lo Vilot is a unique project in Europe. It is a brewery farm created in 2013 in Almacelles (Segrià) by Quiònia Pujol and Óscar Mogilnicki, where they make craft beer, organic and made with 100% local ingredients. More information

We participate in the debate on youth and new rurality organized by La Vanguardia. More information

The company Farm Brewery Lo Vilot, from Almacelles (Lleida) has been the winner of the second edition of the Quintanes / BBVA Entrepreneurship Award for the rural environment. More information and Video.

SetmanaBIO

We participate in the SetmanaBIO, it is a week to know the ecological production and feeding.
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Craft beer: ReEvolution

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La Terra:

“Quiònia Pujol and Òscar Mogilnicki started making beer at home. It was the difficulty of finding organic ingredients that they decided would produce them themselves …” More information

Ruralcat

QUIÒNIA PUJOL AND ÒSCAR MOGILNICKI “Having achieved the first beer in Catalonia that bears the stamp of proximity has been a dream come true”

The project to establish the Lo Vilot brewery was the winner of the 16th edition of the Agricultural and Food Technology Innovation Award (PITA) 2017 in the agri-industry category. Quiona and Oscar started brewing beer at home and, given the difficulty of finding organic ingredients, soon they decided to grow them themselves, at first with a small quantity to see the viability of As of today, they have the only brewery farm in the country and one one of the few at a European level.

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Welcome to PAGÈS

We open our doors on the weekend of visits (9 and 10 June) in the event Welcome to PAGÈS. More information

Gold medal at the Barcelona Beer Challenge 2017

This year, 2017, was the second edition of the Barcelona Beer Challenge, the craft beer competition that is part of the Barcelona Beer Festival. Almost 800 different beers and 203 beer brands from all over the world were entered in the competition, some of which were from Lleida.

The Barcelona Beer Festival was held from 24 to 26 March 2017 at La Farga de L’Hospitalet (Barcelona). To date, it is the most important craft beer event in the country. This year, it had to change venue to a larger space at La Farga de L’Hospitalet, which was attended by 32,000 people.

Lo Vilot Beer from the town of Almacelles has been awarded a prize for the second consecutive year in the international competition. This time with a gold medal for the BELGIAN ALE style with their ZATEC, which is also a gluten-free beer suitable for coeliacs.

Since 25 March 2017, ZATEC gluten-free has been the first craft beer to hold the international certification. This certification is awarded by the crossed-grain symbol for gluten-free foods.

Association Brewers of Lleida

The Association brewers of Lleida has been developed the Beer Route of Lleida.

On the programme “Hora Lleida” of the Cadena Ser with Maricel Benabarre, from 13:30 to 14:00 hours, interview with the entrepreneurs of craft beer production in the Province of Lleida.

In the programme interview Quiònia Pujol from Cervesa Lo Vilot d’Almacelles and Joel and Abel from the brewery Ctretze in Pobla de Segur.

First catalan craft beer; beer craft produced entirely in Almacelles, Lleida.

Article in the provincial newspaper La Mañana, p. 50
Presenting Lo Vilot, the first catalan craft beer, brewed in a artisan manner in its entirety in Almacelles. The presentation took place at the weekly market in Almacelles. Taking advantage of the town’s weekly market, yesterday saw the launch of the first batches of Lo Vilot craft beer from Almacelles. This new brand of beer is produced in four varieties: Wheat IPA, made with wheat; Original IPA, made with barley; Escocesa, made with wheat, barley and oat flakes; and Antiga…

100% Lleida beer.

Reportage in the provincial newspaper El Segre, pg 50
The full circle beer projecte: 100% Lleida beer. Two entrepreneurs from Almacelles in the province of Lleida have decided to manufacture their own beer, growing the ingredients themselves. In tha way, all raw materials are produced organically, and the product is crafted artisanally, without additives or colorants. It is the first organic hop plantation in Lleida and the first closed-loop system in craft beer production in the whole country.

Hops technical day.

In the programme of the Technical Days of the Fira Sant Miquel de Lleida, Day of Alternatives to traditional crops: The cultivation of hops (current situation, future prospects, pros and cons). Technical hop workshop.

10:15 h

Hops.

Mr Antoni López Querol; IRTA.

Cervesa “Lo Vilot”; (Almacelles).

Catalana del Llúpol SL; (Pallars Jussà).

Sr. Josep Anton Betbese Lucas; IRTA.