Sprecher Mamma Mia Pizza Beer

Brewed by Sprecher Brewing Company
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Glendale, Wisconsin USA

Bottle, shared with Swoopjones, Jerc & Mabel. Well, its pizza beer. Not as offensive as the legendary Garlic Pils - but not really interesting for anything more than a gimmick. Smells & tastes like tomato sauce. Its impressive that they made it taste that way, but I wouldn’t try it again unless I was looking for a laugh.

Pours a super fizzy golden orange with hints of red. The head is a fluffy off-white and recedes to a ring fairly quickly leaving no lacing. It smells like, well, a pizza, with strong basil and oregano aromas. The taste isn’t exactly like pizza, but pretty darn close. There’s the generic grainy lager taste but with serious pizza flavors of basil, garlic and oregano. The mouthfeel is light to medium and highly carbonated. I have to say that this is one of the more interesting brews I’ve tasted and was pleasantly surprised. It’s definitely the best pizza beer I’ve tasted!

Bottle purchased at Sam’s in Clybourn. Appearance is a murky, cloudy orange hue, minimal white head with no lacing. Smell is pizza-related spices, mostly oregano and garlic, some flowery hops and biscuit malts. Taste is mostly subtle flavors, pale bread malts with grassy hop tones and those pizza spices, finishes dry. Mouthfeel is light-bodied, thinned out and watery texture, poor inadequate carbonation. Drinkability is low, this beer tastes like an unbalanced pale ale with sprinkles of italian/pizza spices, I would consider this to be a primarily novelty beer, I could see no reason to try this again nor would I recommend to any serious beer drinker, this may serve as a caution against replicating non-relevant food flavors in beer.

Thanks to my brother Petrucci914 for this one. I’ll admit it, I’ve been avoiding this one for a long time. Pizza and beer are a great combo, but a pizza beer?! Anyway, purs a goldish color with thin off-white head and slight haze. Aroma is of a freakin’ pizza! Yes, a freakin’ pizza. Tomato, onion, garlic, basil, oregano, the whole freakin family is here. Fuggeddaboutit! Anyway, this is as novel as Cave Creek Chili beer, it’s well done but why do this? What’s next, a turd infusion beer? Blech.

Pours murky gold with an orange hue. Plenty of small particulates in suspension, and a smidge of an off-white head. Retention is moderate, and within ten minutes theres barely a trace left. Aromatics are lightly spicy and pretty bland. A hint of mint-like oregano and lemon zest. Light cloves follow through. Light bodied and thin carbonation. Watery and flatish. The pallet is mainly lemony and lightly spicy. There’s no Oregano, basil, tomato, or garlic coming through at all. Basically tasting like a thin, watery wheat beer with a hint of mint. Finishes quickly and without much flavor. If this beer had any of the "pizza character" at one point, it must have been a long time ago. Of course there is no bottle date and no way to tell how old it is. I picked it up at a Bunny’s in Chicago a couple of months ago. I would probably enjoy a beer with oregano, basil, tomato, and garlic, but this one had none of those characteristics. I guess the joke was on me.

[1602-20080816] 16oz bottle. No joke: this smells like green pepper, red onion, sun-dried tomatoes, and oregano, with an unfortunate hint of bathroom cleaner. Slightly hazy, light orange brown body with quick white bubbles. More oregano and tomato in the flavour with lots of pizza spices. Medium body is a little thin. Super interesting aroma, stunningly pizza-like!
(@ Cole’s IPA Festival; Buffalo, NY)
Overheard: "It smells like pizza." - "It smells like Pizza?!?" - "Well, it smells like Red Sox."

Yuck, yuck, yuck, yuck. The next morning I wanted to go outside to hunt the dog that sh**t in my mouth, But idea that went Frankenstein.

I’m not going to lie- I too was skeptical about this beer. Just from the description, it sounds a bit daring, but it was defiantely an awesome, but interesting tasting beer. Poured a cloudy golden colour with a full fluffy white head. Aroma is immediately of oregano, marinara sauce and and pepperonis. Mouthfeel is light, but easy to miss because your immediately focused on an infusion of pizza and beer at the same time. Pizza and beer in my opinion, is one of the best combos around, and so it only makes sense these two would fit. Taste is soft and spicey, sweet and tomatoey, pleasent all around. and finishes smooth with a delicious pizza crust taste.