Menabrea 150° Anniversario Bionda

Brewed by Menabrea (Forst)
Style: Pale Lager
Biella, Italy

Bottle shared with the gang at Decemberfest 2006 -- courtesy of Jon. Pours a very light, clear pale yellow with lots of bubbles and a small diminishing white head. Aroma: Oh, I’m not fond of that! Sweet, sugary and grainy with faint stale hops -- yuck. Watery flavour starts with a weird stale hop taste followed by grain and corn and a very light bitter finish. Light bodied. Not good at all.

Bottle
Pale gold with medium-large white top. Little to no lacing. (3-)
Aroma of rice, pale plain grainy nose. Simple.
Very bland, light watery with some hints of sweet corn. Very light hop finish. Forgettable brew.

Bottle @ Decemberfest 2006: Poured yellow, very little head. Aroma of corn, cardboard, malts, and grains. Flavour is cardboard and straw, and heavily carbonated at that. If I were Dogbert I’d probably wave my paw at Italian beer. *sigh*

This bottled brew from a bottle shop poured a large sized head of foamy finely sized white colored bubbles that were long lasting and left behind a transparent typically carbonated light and a thick foamy lacing. The weak aroma was malty. The mouth feel was weakly tingly at the start mediumly tingly at the finish. The mild flavor contained notes of malt hops astringent soft rice and softly acidic. An OK brew just nothing special.

Lemon and corn in the lightly herbal aroma. Lightly hazy blonde body is topped by a shy white head that recedes rapidly to ring. Somewhat metallic aroma is vaguely sweet but also offers a grainy character and some creamed corn. Very low bitterness. Watery, low carbonation, light body. Bottle (Ireland, May-06).

Bottle. Large off-white head that mostly diminished, decent lacing, carbonation, transparent, and an orange hue. Nose was malty, somewhat grassy and hint of hops. Flavor was malty, caramel, sweet, grassy, and some hops. Tingly mouthfeel and light-medium body. Just so-so.

Aroma of fresh rolls with maise ontop to mkae them crunchy, corn lager malts. Taste is caramel , corn, sweetish, with some grassy herbal hops.

From a slender 11.2 oz. capped green bottle with a silver foil wrapped neck, no bottled/freshness date I could find. Poured a slightly hazy dull golden yellow with a foamy white head that settled into a thin lacing. Aromas of bread dough, a light lemon and a herbal hoppiness. Good lager carbonation and a softly crisp, smooth light bodied mouthfeel. Pleasant, but average tasting, a nice bread doughy, plus with a sugary maltiness as well, a subtle lemon flavor that mixes with a light, softly spicy, herbal hoppiness, a very soft bitterness and a lemon herbal, sweet malty finish, not bad, but overall, average euro lager drinkability. A decent lager from Italy, comparable to other Italian lagers, passable, but average.