They are over five hundred producers of craft beer and cider who represent the excellence of the Italian brewing world. This was decreed by the judges of the Slow Food Italian Beer Guide which arrives punctually every year "photographing" the world of the best Italian beers.
The Slow Food Guide tells stories of beers, producers who make the craft beer sector alive, continuously growing, respecting the link between territory and quality. 511 realities - among beer and cider producers - being talked about reviewing 2767 labels and reporting 785 places where it is possible to drink or buy Italian craft beer.
«The Guide to Beers – highlights Luca Giaccone, editor of the publication together with Eugenio Signoroni – was born in 2008, when there were 232 breweries in Italy. Today there are more than a thousand». One hundred male and female collaborators participated in the drafting of the Slow Food Guide, beer experts, but above all passionate connoisseurs of their own territory, who visited breweries throughout Italy and tasted their beers and then selected those that are worth talking about. A real guide within the guide is the selection of almost 800 addresses where to buy, drink and pair beers with food, while with the novelty of recognition for gourmet establishments, the guide highlights those who pay particular attention to the gastronomic offer. Nine special prizes awarded this year by the Guide, the debut of the Filiera prize, awarded to those breweries that invest with conviction in the self-production of raw materials.
«Building a bond with the territory – underlines Eugenio Signoroni, co-author of the Guide – has been, since the beginning of the craft beer movement, one of the fundamental objectives of its protagonists. If at the beginning it was mainly very characteristic ingredients that were used but, so to speak, eccentric compared to the basic beer recipe, such as fruit, spices, flowers and unmalted cereals, in recent years the effort of an ever-increasing group of producers was to invest resources in the production, processing and use of barley and hops, grown in Italy or on its own. For this reason, with the 2025 edition of the Guide it seemed necessary to focus our observation on this theme, introducing the new Supply Chain award and describing this interesting new trend in even more depth, which can also have significant repercussions on the agricultural sector of our country" .
49 Snails awarded to the best breweries, 101 excellence awards, 43 Supply Chain Awards
In total the Guide awarded 49 Snails to the best breweries in Italy, 101 awards of excellence to breweries that express a high average quality across all production and 43 Supply Chain awards to companies that pay particular attention to the direct production of raw materials. As far as ciders are concerned, there are 3 Chiocciole, 4 Eccellenze and 5 Filiera awards.
The Special Awards
Il Best New Award it was awarded to the Nama brewery in Treviglio (BG) with the following motivation: In just two years, Mattia Bonardi and Stefano Angeretti's brewery has established itself as one of the most interesting on the Lombard brewing scene with a clear and easily recognizable style.
Il Costanza Award was assigned to the brewery of Forte di Pietrasanta (Lu) with the following motivation: Francesco Mancini's brewery has built its fame precisely on the ability to be creative and constant at the same time. Beers chiseled production after production, in search of a precision that makes them a safe haven of pure pleasure".
Il Italian Supply Chain Award was assigned to the Serrocroce brewery in Monteverde (Av) with the following motivation: Vito Pagnotta is first and foremost a farmer. His brewing project is both ancient and contemporary. Making beer is a consequence and a need, a cultural and cultural fact, a way of truly describing one's territory and enhancing it.
Il Best cellar project award the Siemàn brewery in Villaga (Vi) was assigned "a unique project on the national scene, part cellar and part brewery, with beers that look at the world of agriculture, barrels and wine with naturalness and spontaneity, without no forcing or search for amazement".
Il Best culinary offer award went to the Vecchia Osteria in Marotta (Pu), as the following reason: Vecchia Osteria is a place to go to eat well as well as drink well. And the two experiences are in continuous dialogue, thanks to an innate ability on the part of Simone Massi and all his staff to always suggest the best possible combination and to open up to new, unprecedented experiences.
Il Best Publican Award was delivered to the Bluebeat in Lecce with the following motivation: For over ten years only beer without cuisine, a unique place capable of creating aggregation, of creating culture. A point of reference where crazy festivals are organised, where the brewers are first and foremost friends and where continuous rotation is practiced. The only pub in Puglia capable of being just a pub in the purest sense of the term: beer and conviviality.
Il Best selection of bottled beers award went to the Brasserie Arnage in Cesena, delivered by the President of Slow Food Editore, with the following motivation: A place that, in addition to having an extraordinary selection of bottles, was able to use it to raise funds to support colleagues in difficulty after the hard days of 'flood.
Il Best selection of draft beers award was awarded to Archea Brewery of Florence and was delivered by the President of Slow Food Lombardia, Claudio Rambelli, with the following motivation: A broad selection that looks with the same attention to the past, present and future. A pub in which attention to service is absolute and which manages to make Italy and the world known from a counter.
Il Best Cider Project was assigned to Floribunda di Salorno (Bz) and was delivered by Marco Manfrini, curator of the section dedicated to ciders in the guide, with the following motivation: The Egger family has been pioneers of apple fermentation since the 1980s, dedicating , with respect but also with a rare capacity for experimentation, to a drink as ancient as it is contemporary such as cider. A beautiful story of respect for the land and an eye towards the future.
Lombardy is the region with the most quality breweries, Piedmont and Trentino are the largest cider producers
Let's start browsing it. The edition talks about 511 realities (about eighty new ones) - including beer and cider producers - and reviews 2767 labels, to which are added 785 reported places, where it is possible to drink or buy Italian craft beer. There are 46 cider producers to whom a sheet is dedicated for 133 reported labels.
Curiosities of the new edition: the region with the most leading breweries is Lombardy (68 craft breweries). Piedmont and Trentino Alto Adige lead the ranking of the regions with the most cider producers. The region with the most locals in leadership is Lombardy (87) followed by Piedmont (81) and Tuscany (80).
The breweries that have won the Snails and the Excellence and Supply Chain awards region by region
Abruzzo
The Snails
Almond '22
Opperbacco
The Excellencies
Anbra
Bibibir
Delphin
Marso Ferment
Humus
The nursing home
Production chain
Maiella Brewery
Delphin
Basilicata
The Excellencies
Brewery 79
Vulture Brewery
Crazy Hop
Milvus
Production chain
Honey Monkey
Calabria
The Excellencies
De Alchemia
Funky Drops
Limen
Campania
The Snails
Masters of Sannio
Aspide Brewery
Sorrento
The Excellencies
Bonavena
Incanto
Karma
KBirr
Okorei
Production chain
Serrocroce
Emilia Romagna
The Snails
BiRen
Ca' del Brado
Claterna
The Excellencies
Argon
Bayon
Bra
Crociatia
Buttiga
Liquid
Bologna Beer Manufacture
Mazapégul
Production chain
Claterna
Three Rivers
Friuli-Venezia Giulia
The Snails
Bondai
Leaves of Grass
The Excellencies
Basei Italian Craft Beer
Garlatti Costa beer
Cittavecchia – Antikorpo
The Lure
Production chain
Naon Brewery
Lazio
The Snails
hilltop
Ritual Lab
Strong wind
The Excellencies
Sabino Brewery
Collerosso
Eastside
jungle Juice
Rebel's
Production chain
Free Lions
Lands of Faul
Thirsty Brothers
Liguria
The Snails
Altavia
Maltus Faber
The Excellencies
Finalese Brewery
Busalla
Production chain
Altavia
Lombardia
The Snails
Age
Italian brewery
Larian Brewery
Rural Brewery
Carrobiol
Hammer
Lambrate
Menaresta
Burnt Door
Melagodo
The Excellencies
Klanbarrique
Brewfist
Extraomnes
They were apples
Gambolò
Hop Skin
Manerba
Nama Brewing
OV
Valcavallina
Vetra
Production chain
Park Beer
Cascina Don Guanella
The Burnt
Luppolajo
Pagus
Marche
The Snails
MC77
Mukkeller
The Excellencies
61 hundred
Babel
Castelli Brewery
Blink Brewery
Godog
The Keep
RentOn
Production chain
Oltremondo
Jester Cider Brewery
Molise
The Excellencies
Kashmir
Piemonte
Land Snails
Playboy
Drink
Malt Cross
Elva
La Piazza
Montegioco
The Excellencies
Algae
Beer In
Canediguerra
Civilian
De Lab Fermentations
Eighteenzeroone
Filodilana
Kamun
Leumann
Sagrin
St. Paul
Soralama
One third
Production chain
2 Sorelle
Kamun
Kauss
New Nicese Brewery
Troll
Playboy
Cascina Danesa
Puglia
The Snails
B94
Birranova
The Excellencies
Baff Beer
Leavening factory
Bang!
Production chain
gruit
Rebeers
Sardinia
The Snails
Barley
The Cagliari Brewery
The Excellencies
Midway
P3 Brewing
rubiu
Production chain
Murduk
Sicilia
The Snails
Ballarak
The Excellencies
Alveria
Epica
The Ferment Company
Yblon
Production chain
Baroni
Toscana
The Snails
Forte Brewery
Wandering Cellar
The Diana
The Excellencies
Brasseria della Fonte
bruton
22 caliber
Chianti Brew Fighters
Degged
The Stecciaia
Piccolo Birrificio Clandestino
Production chain
The Stecciaia
Podere Fatucchio
Podere La Berta
Poggio Rosso
The Diana
Errante Cider Cellar
Trentino Alto Adige
The Snails
Appleblood
Batzen
floribunda
The Excellencies
Horseradish
Fearless
Rethia
Guggenbräu
Monpiër de Gherdëina
Paladeus
Production chain
Fiemme beer
Guggenbräu
Excellent premises
Out of Style – Riva del Garda (Tn)
Leno Klandestino – Rovereto (TN) [for cider]
Umbria
The Snails
Hermitage beer
Perugia beer
The Excellencies
Upper Tiber
Production chain
Umbrian Brewers
Excellent premises
Elfo Pub – Perugia
Valle d'Aosta
The Excellencies
Les Bières du Grand St. Bernard
Maley
Veneto
The Snails
Mastiff
Ofelia
Sieman
The Excellencies
32 Via dei Birrai
Estense Brewery
BirrOne
Crack
the villainess
Lucky Brews
Production chain
Laorno
Why
Sorio
Sieman
Cider Vittoria