Italian brewers’ sustained assault on Italian consumers has, slowly but surely, had its effect. Today, there are over 1,000 breweries, plus a brewer’s organization, UnionBirrai, and a consumer’s group ...

Currently, Italy’s craft beer industry runs far less regulated than, say, Germany where, for the last 500 years, brews have had to abide by a Beer Purity Law. Fewer rules in Italy supports room ...

Italian beers at City Beer Store in San Francisco, Calif., on July 15, 2008. Left-right: Te Birra Del Borgo, Panil Barriquee, Birra Artigianale Demon Hunter, Nuova Mattina, ...

In Italy, the birthplace of good wine and “Slow Food,” homegrown craft beer is suddenly hot (and more on this when Eataly opens its own brewery, completing the beer garden at La Birreria, in ...

Boutique breweries have blossomed across Italy in the past five to 10 years, much as they did here in the States a decade before that. Naturally, coming from Italy, these beers are made with food ...

As a nation, we’ve had a long love affair with Italian beer. Peroni was the first to arrive in 1973. At first, it was ...

When you think of drinking in Italy, wine always pops into your head first. Then come negronis and spritzes. Limoncello. Amaretto. Beer winds up pretty low on this list. That’s a shame. Italy is ...

Alex Liberati's Brasserie 4:20 located in Rome. Sipping a fine Chianti may be your perfect image of Italian drinking. But what about having a beer? Italy's craft beer scene is very new. What ...