Birrificio Italiano Cassissona

Brewed by Birrificio Italiano
Style: Fruit Beer
Lurago Marinone (CO), Italy

shared bottle at the CL RB gathering. Aroma is mostly currants with notes of yeast and spices. Taste is yeasty, fruity (currants), light spices. Sharp, prickly carbonation.

Berry, casis, grape juice aroma. Pours a light amber. Casis, grape, berry, citrus upfront, but not veru strong. Dominated by honey malt flavor. Apparently a lager yeast is used. i could use a bit more fruit.

(750ml bottle) Loud pop and a slight gushing upon opening. The pour has an enormous beige head gradually replaced in the glass by a cloudy amber body. Aroma is medium sweet, currant, some grape, light cookie. Taste is moderately sweet, caramel, currant, some alcohol, light earthy. Sticky medium body.

750 ml bottle. Hazy amber colour, the head is enormous, creamy and persistent and fading leaves some Bruxelles laces on the glass. I liked very much the aroma, fruity with berries, cassis, similar to a fruity wine. The flavour begins with some acidity, and finishes drier with some fruitiness (blackcurrant), but not enough to be a true fruit beer. Better in aroma and appearance than in flavours, but however worths a taste because it’s very strange and unusual and has it’s personality, like all the products of this brewery

1 Pint 9.4 FL OZ bottle. This one scares me as the label says "Sparkling Beer...". Opened to a loud pop. I was expecting to have beer all over my desk, but it didn’t gush. It did pour all head. Settled to a medium amber color. Lots of floaters. Aromas of grapes, berries, and some yeast. Taste was different, not what the aroma lead me to believe it would be. Some berries, but they were muted. Sweet. Body was on the flat side too - another surprise with the way this opened and poured. Different.

This beer has an extremely unique bottle and very un-beer-like labeling. Defintely something different! The beer pours cloudy brown, and is extremely carbonated (more carbonated than champagne). This extreme head has great staying power and takes forever to dissipate, so take great caution when pouring, lest you get a tulip-ful of foam. Smell is pretty much pure sour. I’ve had currant jelly before, but I can’t profess to extreme amount of familiarity with the fruit so I might have a hard time smelling it, although I didn’t pick up much in the way of fruit notes in the aroma. Taste is a weird, totally unexpected maltiness. This was definitely not what I expected from a fruit beer. Surprisingly, this beer was just not fruity tasting. Mouthfeel was also unique. The beer seemed to have a watery viscosity, but a bubbly mouthfeel like a sparkling wine. Very different, but not recommended.

750. Pours a hazy gold woth a huge, rocky, off-white head. Nose is slightly sour apple and berries. Some sweet maltiness in the nose, too. Flavor is sweet bock-like malt, a whiff of smoke, and tiny notes of sour apple and light berry. Where is the currant? Light, bubbly body. This isn’t bad, but it is somewhat odd that the fruit presence is so tiny.

Hazed and ruddy amberish-yellow in color with some sediment within, along with a pinpoint white bubbly head. Concord preserves sneak into the nose and are fresh off the bat, joined by black raspberries and black currant ringing with the sweeter nature of their dark fruited heart. Plums and cream cheese give a smooth demagogue to the sweet aromatic symphony. Cool and husky aspirations calculate in the mouth with a bright carbonation resonation. Wheat bread is lined with black raspberry kernels. A certain dryness comes about to droll up an airy essence to the black currant basis. Effervescence patrols with significant amplification. Bready backbone with blueberry wheat transitions to grape jam spread evenly across the tongue in both mouth feel and flavor. Medium-bodied with a wholesome blueberry muffin intuition, which becomes a boisterously effervescent blueberry cornflake in the finish. Thanks for sharing, John!