Came across this story in the NY Times:
http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/11/02/travel/02Beer.html?em
Now, so far my experience with Italian beer has not been great. Menabrea is an especially bad beer as far as I am concerned. (It all holds to my theory that a country can make nice wine or nice beer but not both). However, I may have to start looking into some of the craft brewers in Italy.
