Birra Messina

Brewed by Heineken Italia
Style: Pale Lager
Milano, Italy

Suprise suprise - I gotta give credit for suspecting the worst and getting mediocre beer. Yellow color, fizzy carbonation, small white head. Nose quite ok, some cardboard, herb and greass. Weak grainy taste with grass and perfume.

Dusty sweet lager nose, pale gold-yellow color, foamy fizzy head. Quick sweet malt with some citrus, hop zing at end, which is the highlight of the beer. Medium body. Average lager, but much better than expected.

Pours a MGC under med-thin white short lasting head. Aroma is faint stale bitter hops with a touch of corn syrup. Flavour, err . . . what flavour? Watery stale medium bitter acrid taste and light drip tray finish.

(Bottle 33 cl) Again this typical and wonderful Italian hoppy nose. Extremely flowery and fresh - reminds me of my first Steinie. Fully golden, nice head. Pure, malty - and then not so much more. Classical good Lager-type. "Birra di Sicilia" brewed in Milan?? 150403

Instead of leaving horses’ heads in beds, the Mafia should leave cases of this Sicilian lager. NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! Okay, it’s not that bad - just another undistinguished Mediterranean lager. Pale gold colour, hello-goodbye head. Some pepper in the vaguely herbal nose. Quenching and utterly inoffensive. The beer they’ll make you drink in Purgatory. (Bottle)

Clear copper golden body with a poor lasting head. Malt aroma that wasn’t too flash. Fairly boring lager taste, a touch metallic, caramel, corn, not much body and just managed to finish it.

An acceptable lager. Yellow with a short-lived fizzy head and moderate carbonation. Sweetish aroma. Caramel malt flavor, but very mild. Tastes like a US macro.

A light orange beer with a small disappearing white head. The aroma is sweet with strong notes of caramel. The flavor is sweet malty with notes of caramel and a thin body. Not bad, just plain boring.