Birrificio Italiano Tipopils

Brewed by Birrificio Italiano
Style: Classic German Pilsener
Lurago Marinone (CO), Italy

My guess this is what I had at the woodshop, in a small bottle. Pours yellow with a bright white bubbly head. Nose is sweet and quite biter. Taste is bitter and nice.

Bottled (from You’ll Never Walk Alone, Kolding). Hazy golden colour, small head. Aroma is grassy, earthy and mildly wooden and vanillaish. Flavour is grass, mild yeast and quite frutiy hops. Very nice.

(Bottled, BB 10/2008, lotto #256). Hazy yellow color, small white head. Grainy, a bit bit lemony hoppy aroma. Fruity, a bit grainy, very bitter finish. American hops? Long bitter aftertaste. Good pils! Although with 3.77 average slightly overrated here.

Tap at Oldsmar Tap House. Pours golden, white head. Aroma / taste; grainy, herbal and floral. Beer gained in sweetness and hop flavors as it warmed up. Well balanced, did not leave any of the nasty metallic aftertaste. A much better finish than the average German pilsner. Simple, but very enjoyable.

Bottle at home from my GBBF haul ... pale golden yellow... sweet fruit floral hop nose ... sweet hoppy ... ligth spice ... ligth malt... im afraid i just dont see anything in a Pils even this one.

In short: One of the two best pils to come out of a bottle (along with Christoffel).
How: Bottle 750ml, consumed fresh a few weeks after MatinT brought it from Italia. Ataïr’s bbq tasting session with Montreal crew.
The look: Almost clear blonde body topped by a long lasting small fluffy white head.
In long: Nose of lemony meringue and freshly cut grass. Big body for the style but with no apparent sweetness. Just a lot of hay and unsweetened cookies. Light fruity notes of dried bananas and lemon. Hops, hops and more hops, this one is loaded with hops. Dry grass with a little spicy touch from start to finish. Rather dry. Extra-pleasant dry tasty bitterness. I never thought the best Classic German Pilsner in a bottle would be from Italia. Sometimes an Italian decide to do like the Germans and we get a great beer, and sometimes we get Mussolini.

A lot of glasses on the tap, every time I end up by chance near Lurago Marinone... ok, sometimes is not "by chance"... One word could be enough: wondeful. Engaging appearance, golden-yellow with some light green hint and visible effervescence. White frothy head, which last quite long. The aroma is a perfect blend of light malt and fresh hop. Not too strong but really pleasant. Medium-light body and hoppy bitternes dominating but not overwhelming the malty sweetness. It satisfies all the senses and it’s actually impossible not to have the second.

From bottle at Bruxellensis. Hazy pale golden with a limited head. Intensely grassy hop aroma. Like tasting hay. The ultimate Sauvignon Blanc among beers.