Inspired by the news of the 12 liters bottles of “Vieille of Bon Secours” sold in London for 700£, we had on last Friday one of the most interesting off-topic discussion of the Italian version of this blog: an a debate on craft beer prices in Italy.
I immediately want to make clear that in these lines you won’t find a solution to the problem, neither an analysis that finally clarify the reason for so elevated prices. For similar conclusions it would be necessary to carry out a serious investigation, since so many times we tried to unravel the skein without getting satisfactory results. It is not what I intend to do with this post. I will just write some remarks to reflect on, inspired me from so many comments read in these days. Hope these would be inspiring for you too, in order to have a useful debate on this fundamental topic.


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