Do you think you know where in the beer world this photo was taken? Then leave a comment.
Other comments are welcome as well.
I don’t expect you to know where this table was, but there’s a good reason you should be able to name the country.
Or at least I thought so until I saw an interesting photo on another blog (to be revealed with the answer). That probably doesn’t qualify as a hint, so . . . a lucky search of the New York Times archives will get you on track.
Baladin, Italy!
yup, Theo’s place – Baladin.
Those glasses are there and Lost Abbey in San Diego. Well, the two places that I have bumped into them…
Yes, also at Lost Abbey (that’s the photo I mentioned just noticing).
No, not at Baladin (though the glasses do appear in photos from Baladin that appeared in the NY Times).
The photo was taken at Bir & Fud in Rome, a restaurant that serves only Italian craft beers and water to drink (no wine).
The glasses are the same as at Baladin, conceived by Ted Musso and Lorenzo Dabove and produced by Rastal. Leonardo di Vincenzo, brewmaster at Birra Del Borgo and partner at Bir & Fud, said that the plan is to make this style the national Italian craft beer glass.
Rastal sells them worldwide and when Lost Abbey brewmaster Tomme Arthur saw them he ordered them for the San Diego brewery.