Rome Starbess Strong Ale

Brewed by Rome Brewing Co.
Style: American Strong Ale
Roma, Italy

From tap at the brewpub. Pours almost clear deep orange with a fully diminished off-white head. Sweet corn/hay-ish aroma, brewing cereal. Hayish flavour yet smooth from the alcohol but surely doesnt hold any complexities. Very straight forward and too sweet and cereal-like for my taste.

Considering the style, Scores ranging from 1 to 5, 5 being the most intense
Appearance:
Body:   Clear(1)->Murky(5) : 3   Light Brown(1)->Dark(5) : 4   Ruby : 2   Still(1)->Sparkling(5) : 2
Head:   None(1)->Large(5) : 2   White(1)->Tan(5) : 2   Lasting: 1   Lacing : 2
Aroma:
Intensity : 3  
Yeast : 1   Bread : 1   Apple : XX   Esters : XX   Banana : XX   Phenols : XX   Leather : 2   Perfume : XX   DMS : XX   Diacetyl : XX
Malt : 3   Biscuity : 3   Toast : 3   Caramel : 2   Toffee : XX   Maple : XX   Molasses : XX   Nuts : XX   Candy : XX   Pumpernickel : XX   Cereals : XX   Fruits : 2   Chocolate : 3   Coffee : XX   Vanilla : XX   Grapes : XX   Blackberries : XX   Dates : XX   Cherries : XX   Plums : 2   Figs : XX
Hops : 2   Noble(1)->American(5) : 4   Leafy : XX   Floral : 2   Orange : 2   Herbal : XX   Spicy : XX   Pine/Spruce/Resin : XX
Notes :   Earth : 2   Wood : XX   Cloves : XX   Smoke : 2   Pepper : XX   Ginger : XX   Peach/Pear/Apricot : 1   Candi Sugar : XX   Anise : XX   Vinous : XX
Flavor:
Initial Flavor : Dry(1)->Sweet(5) : 3   Finish Dry(1)->Sweet(5) : 3   Sourness : XX   Bitterness : 2   Complex : 2   Length : XX
Palate:
Light(1)->Full(5) : 3   Flat(1)->Fizzy(5) : 2   Clean : XX   Sharp : XX   Watery : XX   Oily : XX   Chalk : XX   Astringent : XX   Alcohol : 1   Mineral : XX   Oxidation : XX   Metallic : XX

Comments: I just learnt that this beer surpasses 10%ABV and am astonished. It is a clean, soft, well-made, very fruity, sweetish, toasty-biscuity ale of softness more than punch – but perhaps not very spectacular. Still very impressive task with the alcohol.

Draught. Sweet yeasty nose, some sourness. Strawberry esters and some caramel. Nice deep celar amber, almost brown with good head retention and lacing. A bit thin and shallow in flavor, but not bad. Sweet in a malt/fruit sort of way.

[Draught at the brewpub] Clear nut brown, small creamy head. Aroma of rye bread. Sweet, fruity and estery with notes of bubblegum, Full bodied with burnt malt, nuts and syrup, but surprisingly low bitterness. An unusual but complex and tasty beer.

Bottled. Dark amber coloured. Fruity aroma. Sweet and fruity flavour with some hoppiness. Slightly one-dimensional.

A beer rare to find as the brewery will probably close; brought by Laurent Mousson
Dark amber color. Light malt and fruitness. Maybe it used to be reasonable, but…

reddish colour, fine little foam, lactic and caramel aroma, sweet and full-bodied, sour and very bitter, dry bitter finish - something’s went wrong here

An unclear amber beer with a fine lazing white head. The aroma is great: sweet with lots of hops - reminds me a little of an Imperial IPA. The flavor is strong, sweet and with lots of hops.