Birra Moretti Doppio Malto

Brewed by Heineken Italia
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Milano, Italy

After tasting the nicely malty offering, ’La Rossa’, of the same brewery I had to crack into a bottle of this one. Poured into a tulip glass, hazy gold body with a thin, tight, white pad of foam that lasted and left legs down the glass. Grassy, honey malt nose with a good amount of barnyard grain that continued to waft as I drank it. Sweet, sweet and sweet in the mouth, this seems it is made up of four different blends of sugar, and one of them failed to ferment. Everything was going swimmingly, until I drank it. Creamy smooth, medium bodied and gluggy as all hell, it was heavily off balance, and it was as if the sugars had of fully fermented this may have broken the 15% ABV mark. Pretty full on, with a light grainy and vanilla note only becoming obvious as I dared role it around the tongue. Finish has a little grassy and citrus fruit to it, and thankfully it had little length as I was worried my stomach may rot. Amazingly, it was easy to down and held its alcohol with remarkable control. Definitely a ’Double malt’. Just hope my sample was a little off key, as it was a late night sipper and not your barroom quaffer. (33cL, 7.0% ABV, BBE 10/05)

Pours a clear reddish brown with a modest white head. It smells like caramel corn and alcohol. It tastes sweet and malty with an alcohol presence. A very sticky sweet finish. This is an interesting attempt at... something.

Dark brown. Some aroma of malt, sugar, and chemicals. Flavor is malt. Medium body. A strange beer.

MGC under a small short lasting white head. Faint metallic grainy malt aroma. Medium stale acrid bitter and low sweetness just covers the highish ABV. Faint alcoholic low sweetness finish.

0.33l Bottle Sweet corny malt and metallic herbal hop aroma. Golden, big bubbles, foamy, not very stable head. Light malt flavors, some adjuncts, a bit herbal hop. Light body. Sweet corny malt aftertaste.

Bottle. Pours kind of a brownish color. European Strong Lager, huh? After reading the description it makes perfect sense. I thought this was going to be something like a malt liquor but its not really. Strong and better than any malt liquor but not really high quality.

Limpid. Evanescente foam. Perhaps too much strongly, an emphasized aroma of malto is felt. Too much sand bank.

A hazy orange beer with a collapsing off-white head. The aroma is very sweet spicy with notes of malt, grain, and alcohol. The flavor is sweet malty with notes of oranges and loads of aroma hops leading up to a spicy coriander end.