About

This is a blog about Italian beers made by an Italian for foreigners. Well, Italians are welcome too, but not Italian being English the language of this blog.

Why a blog in English about Italian beers? Because our scene is on the big rise with a lot of good and innovative brewers, because we have outstanding pubs and a lot of enjoyable festivals. But only a few foreign beer lovers are aware of this, probably due to language barriers and lack of communication. With this blog I will try to share informations about the Italian beer world, hoping to satisfy potential interest coming from abroad and to stimulate beer hunting in my country as I often do abroad.

English is not my first language, neither the second one (my dialect), so I hope you will concentrate to the contents and that you will forgive my unavoidable English mistakes. I live in the Northern part of Italy and I will mainly focus on what I directly experience. Questions and suggestions are more than welcome, please feel free to contact me.

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Stefano Ricci. First of all a beer lover. A member of MoBI, the Italian beer consumers association, and writer for the magazine of the association (in Italian, sorry). A beer judge at professional and homebrewers competitions when necessary. A certified second level Unionbirrai taster. Writer for e-magazines and blogs about beer and food. Very active in the small but very lively Italian beer world. Sometimes polemic… ok, very often… but not here (maybe). Beer traveller and beer hunter everytime I can. That’s it!