Menabrea 150° Anniversario Strong

Bottle at home: Sour, grainy aroma with alcohol, and a little amount of malts. Pours a medium dense foamy head, but it dissapears relatively quickly. Dark golden. The taste is at first a little malty, but then turns sourish and finishes in alcoholic notes that are too obvious for the subdued bitterness of the hops. The palate is quite standard, not watery, not creamy. Overall, this beer is a little below medium.

Bottle. Pours clear pale golden with a fine, creamy, white head. Okay duration. Aroma is lightly metallic, some alcohol, sweet malts and a little sugar. Citric bitterness. Medium carbonation, okay dryish mouthfeel. Flavour is extremely dry and acrid. Malty fatness, hay, some barn-like feel to it. Not good.

Bottle 66cl. @ home.
Clear medium yellow orange color with a large, frothy, good lacing, fully lasting, white to off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, grain, toasted, straw, asparagus water, light hoppy. Flavor is moderate sweet and acrid malt bitter with a long to average duration. Body is medium to light, texture is watery to oily, carbonation is soft. [20090402]

Degustata da bottiglia da 33cl. Aspetto biondo limpido con schiuma cremosa. Profumo intenso, aromi di malto e leggermente luppolata. Di buon corpo e ben equilibrata.

Bottle, poured a clear, light, golden color with a sturdy white head. Malty nose. Thin bodied with ample carbonation. Flavor is sweet malt with mild hints of toffee. Basic with no character but very clean.

Bottle: Poured a hazy to golden color with a white head. Aroma was light but seemed sweet grass. Taste was malty and more warm alcohol.

Bottle (in NZ). Pours a hazy gold with a filmy head. Sweet malt on the nose, with hints of grass. Overpowering sweetness on the palate, but cleanses somewhat in the swallow. Not all that easy to drink at first, but it did get better as it warmed.

Moderate malty aroma. Large, frothy, white head. Good lacing. Clear, yellow body. Moderate bitter flavor very malted. Light to medium palate.