Menabrea 1846

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

As Birra della Storia - Il Compagno (Stalin) and shared with ozujsko (thanks!)
Poured a big thick fluffy white head. Chemicals ftw, eh ? Golden colour, lively carbonation. The nose is a bit stale, malty and honey with hints of wine. The taste is... bad. Cardboard, hints of grapes, some hops, a bit oily, but somehow... dry. Almost mouthpuckeringly so. Yet another crappy gimmick beer. How nice.

Bottle. Clear olden colour with a small fizzy head. Pretty mainstream boring pale lager.

Bottle. Golden with a bubbly mostly diminishing white head. Aroma of grass, bit malty and fruity. Flavour is grassy, some malt, fruity with some lemon. Dry bitterish finish. A quite refreshing beer.

330ml bottle from BeersOfEurope. A dull pale lager with a light, dirty bitterness of no distinction or character. Clings to the mouth unpleasantly. Slight whiff and taste of corn. Unsatisfactory.

Clear yellow. Medium head. Hoppy nose with hay notes. Sweet hoppy flavor. A bit watery. Slightly bitter aftertaste. Nothing special.

Dark yellow colored, little white head. Lively carbonation. Fruits, lemon and esters in surprisingly strong aroma. Thin to medium bodied. Flavor is also fruity with corny lemon touch, some carbonation also there. Some cardboard in aftertaste.

Yellow-gold, modest head. Offputting aroma of vegetables (cucumber, celery) with corn syrup . Palate was much the same with an unpleasant sharp finish, almost sour. I may have had a bad bottle.

Bottle. Floral hops and simplistic malt in the nose. Clear yellow body with a creamy white head. Hay, hops, and surprisingly sweet maltiness in the taste, light bodied-watery but somehow more substantive than most standard pale lagers. Some straw/honey and only the slightest wisp of bitterness (there’s more apple there, for example). Pretty good for style, but that’s not saying much.