Though the Italian craft beer movement has borrowed much from the American, one point that sets the two apart is that Italy is actually having an artisanal beer movement, not a craft beer movement. No one in Italy defines or defends this point more than the brewing pioneer, Teo Musso, owner and brewer of Baladin. “To me artisan means that you have to make live products.” In 2010 the Boston Beer Company brought the discourse of craft front-and-center in the US craft beer scene

While sours took a while to catch on with Italian beer drinkers, there have always been plenty of brewers making them, such as Panil, Black Barrel and Montegioco with almost all breweries having one or two. But Valter Loveriere, owner of Loverbeer, decided to take it all the way and adhere to the long-established traditions from Belgium. Not far from Grado Plato brewery in Torino, it didn’t seem to bother Valter that not too many people in Italy bought his product, but then,