Beer in Naples?

[beerking]

Any members near or familiar with the Naples area? I will be there in 2 weeks.

[chazwicke]

Post that question on DC-Beer. Several of those guys have info on Italian Craft brew. I'll be in Italy, Spain, France, Greece and Tunisia in April. I'm expecting more wine than beer. Last time I was in Italy was in the north Alps. Only Forst beers.

[evanrail]

I've got a travel story on beer in Italy coming out this autumn, but it's set in Piedmont and Lombardy, way up in the north. These regions seem to be home to some of the biggest names in the Italian craft beer scene: Baladin, Grado Plato, Montegioco, Lambrate, Troll, Como and Birrificio Italiano. Panil is not too far away in Emilia-Romagna.

That said, I'm not sure what's going on down in Napoli; I haven't heard of a brewpub or microbrewery there. At the very worst, you can look for bottles from some of the above names. Craft beer seems hard to find in most supermarkets, but if you see a fine foods shop or upscale delicatessen, they're likely to have at least Baladin's bottles.

Fair warning: craft beers in Italy are pricey, and many .75-liter wine bottles of craft beer go for as much as 10 or 20 euros just in a food shop, not even a bar. (Some of Baladin's beers retail for almost €30.) In a bar, half-liters of craft beer on draft are regularly €4.50 or €5.

[wortchillergoal]

Silly me, my brain went straight to Naples, FL.

[beerking]

Fair warning: craft beers in Italy are pricey, and many .75-liter wine bottles of craft beer go for as much as 10 or 20 euros just in a food shop, not even a bar. (Some of Baladin's beers retail for almost €30.) In a bar, half-liters of craft beer on draft are regularly €4.50 or €5.

HOLY F@#$ Batman! That's more than they cost here in the states!

[evanrail]

Last week I was visited by Andrea from www.cronachedibirra.it. He said that in Rome, beers are now getting to €6 per half liter (just about a US pint) and up.

Not just craft beers — all beers.

I've got the menu for the Baladin brewpub here on my desk. Of their six standard brews, five are listed at €4.50 per half liter. Piozzo, where the pub is located, is in the middle of freaking nowhere, with fewer than 1,000 people in a village not too far away from Cuneo (as in: where?).

In other words, €4.50 per pint of craft beer can be a small-town price in Italy.