Birrificio Italiano Cassissona

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

Bottled. An unclear golden beer with a lazing beige head. The aroma has notes of vinegar and malt. The flavor is both sweet and sour and dominated by malt.

(Bottle 75 cl) Courtesy of Ungstrup. Pours a very cloudy amber golden with a rough, dense, off-white head. Distinct butter aroma. Medium body with some sweet fruitiness. No bitterness. 311008

75 cL bottle, courtesy of Ungstrup. Pours dark orange with a white head. Solid butterish aroma. Light spiced and wineous fruity flavoured. Towards dry and spiced into the finish. Sad aroma, decent flavour.

Bottle. 75cl. [2007].
Light unclear medium orange color with a huge, frothy, excellent lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to light heavy black currant, black currant sour and sweet. Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet and light to moderate acidic with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. (180408) 7/4/73/15
Bottle. 75cl. [Vintage 2004].
Clear medium amber orange color with a large, frothy, excellent lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, vintage, notes of black currant, moderate yeasty, acidic. Flavor is moderate sweet with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. (180408) 6/4/7/3/14

Date: 11/18/2006
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting

foams out of the bottle creating a huge frothy white head that leaves lots of lace, cloudy yellow, light malt aroma, nice moldy flavor, light bitterness

Aroma: 5/10; Appearance: 5/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 12/20
Rating: 2.9/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: *4

<i>2008-10-31, tasting at Papsoe, 6-5-6-3-14=34</i>Cloudy deep blond, huge head. Creamy aroma, milky, not fruity. Good mouthfeel, sweetish malt flavor, light sourness and fruitness, delicate, balanced, leading into a more balanced flavor; good but not surprising.


<i>2002-07-24, bottle at the brewpub, 7-5-7-4-14=37<i>
Served in a 75cl bottle, it comes with a tray of different sorts of cheese; poured by the waiter in 2 giant original glasses &&#35;40;look at the picture, each is about 1 litre&&#35;41;.
Hazy amber colour, giant head &&#35;40;at least 15 cm&&#35;41;, rocky, that sticks to the glass in a beautiful lace.
Nice aroma, not particularly strong: malt, fruits &&#35;40;cassis&&#35;41;. <i>Italian Doppio Malto</i> as a base &&#35;40;that means Bock beer&&#35;41;, corrected by the fruit and a hopping stronger than the average. The malt is quite good, leaving some sweetness, and participating in a good body structure; the fruit is discrete, the hop may be too strong and the bitterness hides the fruit.
As most of the beers from this brewery, it´s bottom fermented; the fruits come as a syrup, I heard that it´s produced by some farmer in Alto Adige region.

(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.

Bottle @ Italian tasting @ YNWA, Kolding. Pours a muddy pale deep orange with a gigantic bubbly white head. Okay lacing. Aroma is grapes, black currants and ligthly tart.Lively and fresh mouthfeel. Flavour begins malty sweet with fruity grapes, some apples and black currants. Finish is very dry with lots of hops at the end. Is this a wine or a beer? Still it is rather wonderful.