Birra del Borgo Re Ale comes in a biiig bottle.

Last night at Convivio’s superb Italian craft beer dinner, the Feed learned from the horses’ mouths—in this case, cult brewers Teo Musso of Birreria le Baladin and Birra del Borgo’s Leonardo di Vincenzo—that the two plan to bring their joint venture, an Italian-only brew bar and retailer called Open Baladin, to the forthcoming NYC outpost of Eataly supermarket (Joe Bastianich’s glorious pet project).

Just to catch you up, Italy’s fairly young microbrew scene, according to Michael Opalenski of B. United, who introduced last night’s libations, amounts to nothing less than a “brewing renaissance.” Per Di Vincenzo, the new generation of suds is “departing from a traditional industrial culture.” Musso added, in his newly acquired English, that their beer is “coming from a slow-food movement” and is “meant to be drunk with food.”

Some of what you can look forward to and what we enjoyed yesterday evening: Birra del Borgo’s oolong-infused Te’ Ale, and Le Baladin’s Al-iksir Ale, which Musso aptly described as a brew with unusual qualities for being “dry and sweet with no bitterness.”