Italy may not come to mind when you think of "top producing beer countries..." at least not yet. Although Italy is located in the wine belt of Europe, which is south of the beer belt, beer is not new to Italy. In fact, Italy's two most well known breweries date back to the mid 1800's.

The Peroni Brewery, or Birra Peroni, was founded in Lombardia in 1846 and has been based in Rome since 1864, and the Birra Moretti was founded in 1859 in Udine. Unfortunately, those two beers seemed to be the only two that people automatically thought of when talking about Italian beers and in the beer world they just weren't that exciting.

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Source: http://www.lagazzettaitaliana.com