Birrificio Italiano Scires

Brewed by Birrificio Italiano
Style: Sour Ale
Lurago Marinone (CO), Italy

Bottle @ my brothers (Vac) & Abby’s (zug4abby) house warming party. Poured a red-brown with a reddish head. The aroma seemed musty with a wood background. There also are some sour undertones. The flavor found fruit (mainly cherries) and some acidic to sour flavors. Light to medium in body with lively carbonation. Interesting and different.

Bottled exploded open into a fountain of red-brown frothy. Fun! The beer is very murky, medium red-brown with a large, frothy, rose-brown head that diminishes mostly.<P> The aroma is malty with a moderate note of toasted grain, light note of caramel; Hoppy with a moderate note of lemon zest, trace of cedar, light notes of dilly herb, light floral, straw; Yeasty with moderate barnyard bret notes; Light moderate notes of spicy wood, juicy vinous sour cherry.<P> The flavor is moderately sweet, lightly acidic, lightly dry with an average-length, trace bitter, lightly sweet, juicy-dry finish.<P> The body is medium, the texture is velvety and the carbonation is lively.<P> Far superior to the cassis.

Bottle (GEYSER-gusher!). Head is initially small, fizzy, pink, mostly diminishing. Body is murky dark red. Aroma is lightly malty (caramel), moderately yeasty (horseblanket, barnyard), with notes of cherry and other berries. Flavor is moderately sweet, lightly to moderately acidic. Finish is lightly sweet, lightly to moderately acidic, lightly bitter. Medium body, watery/syrupy texture, lively carbonation, lightly alcoholic. Not bad...quite a bit of Brett character; in fact, maybe a bit too much. There’s not much going on here, and I’d like it more sour than this, but it’s significantly better than the cassis beer.

Large pink, brown head Good retention with thin lacing left behind. Murky brown color with some red hues showing themselves. Nose is tart, cherries, cinnamon, a touch woody, pecil shavings and cedar. Body is med/light with a lively carbonation. Semi-tart cherry flavors, some lumber and a hint barnyardy, musky and fruity with lightly sweet malts about. Finish is fairly dry and fruity. Interesting brew but a bit pricey. Thanks to eaglefan538 for sharing this with me in State Lines tasting room. Good times!

Poured a deep red-burgundy color with a strong carbonated head that had great retention, yet somewhat weak lacing (like soda-pop). The aroma was down right funky, smelled like a lambic with off aromas (can you really sense such a thing in a lambic?). A little barnyard funkiness, bret?, rubber, azalea bushes (but not skunky), rather interesting and somewhat concerning after dropping $18 on this sucker. The flavor, though, was much better, a soft lambic kriek type experience blended with some flemish sours perhaps. This had the funk underneath, but the tartness was gentle instead of mouth puckering like a Cantillon, berries, cherries, light wood, pretty drinkable. The mouthfeel was thin to moderate (the latter only after some warming), artificially carbonated. This one had some shortcomings in the lesser critical categories, which keeps its average down for me, but overall and in the flavor category this was nice (although short of a $18 beer - so go the Italian beers, imo).

Cloudy ruby red; small pink head. Cherries, sour cherries, tart nose, wheat-like background. Cedarwood (like pencils), cherries (real fruit). It is reassuringly tart in the taste/MF too, but all the same, there’s a strange presence that I would like to loose - yeast esters? lesser malts? Well-bodied, fruit filled. Generally nice, but there’s something... I might live with some longer lagering.

Full mixed fruit nose, murky brown, a few floaties. Flavour is mixed berries, soft sourness. Medium bodied, sour, somewhat bitter. Good. Thank You R!

Bottle shared with the crew in late November, thanks R. Sour cherry, weird medicinal quality in aroma. Very sour taste, some cherry,still kind of odd. Good but a very long odd medicinal linger. Strange one this beer.