Making beer out of Chestnuts

There’s a Rodari’s poem that talks about a man from Scandicci who would “throw chestnuts away to eat their shells”, it’s called “Bravi Signori”, if I’m not wrong. Well, we do the opposite, and we make a beer out of chestnuts: the CastagnAle, September’s Bizarre. We dry chestnuts on the fire and smoke the malt…