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<p>EXETER &#8212; Since Lindo Sabatini purchased Sabatini&#8217;s Pizza from his father in 2005, he&#8217;s worked hard to incorporate craft beers into the business.</p><p>The beers&#8217; popularity prompted Sabatini to open a <a href="https://www.timesleader.com/news/business/18391/sabatinis-craft-beer-bar-and-bottle-shop-in-exeter-getting-set-to-open" target="_blank">craft beer and bottle shop</a> last spring, and the various selections available have prompted Times Leader readers to vote Sabatini&#8217;s for having the Best Beer Selection in the 2016 Readers&#8217; Choice Awards.</p><p>This marks the first time the business has received this award.</p><p>Sabatini&#8217;s has 12 rotating drafts and a hand pump with a few hundred beer selections, but the craft beer and bottle shop is where customers can really dive into various selections.</p><p>All in all, Sabatini&#8217;s sells over 2,500 different types of beer.</p><p>&#8220;As far as the beer goes, we have probably 100 to 150 Belgium beers, 60 German beers and beers from countries from Austria to Switzerland,&#8221; said Sabatini. &#8220;As far as American craft beers go, we basically have the best beers we can get from the best American craft breweries.&#8221;</p><p>The craft beer and bottle shop sells individual beers as single bottles, six-packs or 12-packs of beers from all around the world.</p><p>At the bar are four dedicated import towers &#8212; German beer Schneider Weisse, Netherlands beer La Trappe and Belgium beer Chouffe and Delirium Tremens.</p><p>On the back wall are 16 rotating beers which Sabatini said are changed a couple times a day.</p><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s very rare that there is not a new beer on there everyday,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We&#8217;ve changed as many as 12 in one day in the (new building) alone. There are some beers that will reoccur, but the majority of them are just in a constant rotation.&#8221;</p><p>In order to obtain beers from around the world, Sabatini said relationships need to be formed with brewing companies, which is not an easy task.</p><p>&#8220;There&#8217;s a lot of work into getting all of the beers,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s not like we just pick up the phone and order them. We have to develop relationships with breweries and with importers, and we have to support the breweries to get the beers we want. There&#8217;s a lot of time between myself and my staff and managers that we spend in developing these relationship to get what we need.&#8221;</p><p>Hours for the craft beer and bottle shop are 10 a.m. to midnight Sunday through Thursday and from 10 a.m. to 2 a.m. on Fridays and Saturdays.</p><p>Sabatini said the response to the bottle shop since its opening has been overwhelming and that business will still be booming heading into its second year.</p><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s been fun,&#8221; he said. &#8220;A lot of people still don&#8217;t realize we&#8217;re here and once they come in to see the place and taste some of the beers maybe they haven&#8217;t had, they fall in with something and they come back.&#8221;</p><style>
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<div class="neCaption">Lindo Sabatini with international beers at Sabatini&#8217;s brew house restaurant in Exeter. </div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo0>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/web1_sabatini02.jpg</photo0><caption0>Lindo Sabatini with international beers at Sabatini&#8217;s brew house restaurant in Exeter. </caption0><photoCredit0>Pete G. Wilcox | Times Leader Pete Wilcox | Times Leader </photoCredit0></div><div class="neFile"><img class="neImage" src="https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/web1_sabatini01.jpg">
<div class="neCaption">Lindo Sabatini draws a beer from a tap at Sabatini&#8217;s brew house restaurant in Exeter. </div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo1>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/web1_sabatini01.jpg</photo1><caption1>Lindo Sabatini draws a beer from a tap at Sabatini&#8217;s brew house restaurant in Exeter. </caption1><photoCredit1>Pete G. Wilcox | Times Leader Pete Wilcox | Times Leader </photoCredit1></div></div>
<div class="metaInfo"><bylineMeta><p>By Jimmy Fisher</p><p>jfisher@www.timesleader.com</p></bylineMeta></div><div class="metaInfo"><shirttailMeta><p>Reach Jimmy Fisher at 570-704-3972 or on Twitter @SD_JimmyFisher</p></shirttailMeta></div>

Sabatini’s offers various beers from around the world