When I think of Italy, I think luxury: exquisite wines, sprawling villas and high-end sports cars. Beer doesn’t usually make that list. However, Italian brewery LoverBeer is out to change that. With its lineup of wild ales, fruited sours and Imperial stouts, BeerBrugna is putting Italy on the world beer map. Its brews are expensive (and hard to find), but the quality is well worth the price. This month, seek out a bottle (my favorite is BeerBrugna, an aged sour ale brewed with plums) at Randall’s Wines & Spirits in North County and split it with a deserving beer lover who has a taste for the finer things in life.
This article appears in February 2015.