The title came to me spontaneously. My son Federico went to high school 50 meters from here. A street I must have walked hundreds of times, and yet I had no idea this place existed…
Open Baladin is immediate, colorful, inviting. A beer wall rises on the large surface that welcomes you at the entrance. A place where beer is in the air, and where you also talk about beer with Andrea Barone, someone who can definitely tell us something interesting about it.
Starting from his interest in homebrewing, I ask Andrea what “craft beer” means today. Is it still truly craft? Is it a saturated market or still a lively one? And then there’s beer culture. According to Andrea, there are still major gaps. Culture, perception, pairings, and the need to break free from the classic “beer and pizza” approach… Andrea talks about “beer pairments” (“abbirramenti”). A cute concept.
I often hear people ask for “a light one” in a generic way. Could beer pairments be the right key to offering beer in a different, more thoughtful way?




















