Sprecher Mamma Mia Pizza Beer

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

Pours a clear golden orange with a very small sudsy head. Nose is like a cheap margarita pizza. I have a bottle of Abyss in me, and I cant stop laughing at the nose of this beer. It’s impressive, but not in a good way. It’s impressive in a "wow, that retarded guy in The Ringer did a great job acting like a retarded guy." Taste is not as pizza as the nose, but is still quite pizza-ee. Obvious flavor of garlic and tomato, but god damn is this beer disgustingly fantastic. It makes me want to order a pizza and throw up at the same time. I was once warned by a friend that all you need of this beer is a couple ounces and it will ruin your pallet and make you want to vomit. My friend was right. I cant help but feel like this beer is just like anal sex. I would have enjoyed it a lot more when I was a kid, and now it just makes me feel dirty and want to forget it ever happened.

From bottle. Well, great aroma of pizza. Tomato and basil, herby and acidic and spicy. But that’s about the only neat thing about this beer. It’s a nice aroma, but not for a beer. Dull golden clear with small white head. Medium watery body with medium carbonation. Underlying beer is fairly clean, but the basil and tomato flavors just don’t mix very well with this approach. I can see the novelty and it is very creative, but the combination for me is just not appealing - with or without food.

1 pint bottle. Bottle is a gusher. Whats left over after the gusher is a half pint of cloudy gold stuff with a small white head. The aroma is strange and pizza-like with tomato, garlic and oregano. The flavor is somewhat reminiscent of Bud chelada, but without the clams. The palate is thin and watery. The finish is short and disgusting. Overall: nasty stuff.

Bottle thanks to byaeger on BA. Thanks, Brian. Wanted to try this for awhile and expected it to be terrible, but it really wasn’t. Pours a clear golden small, slightly fizzy white head. Aroma is pizza sauce, oregano, garlic, and pale malt. Flavor is a lot like a Boboli pizza. Tomato sauce, oregano, basil, and garlic all there, as well as pizza crust. Palate is light and watery, a bit thin. This is not a great beer for sure, but it accomplishes what it’s trying to do: taste like a pizza.

Bottle from Bev 4 Less: I knew when I saw this bottle that it was going to be a recipe that wouldn’t taste good but I just had to try the recipe. In the nose, there is a marinara/tomato sauce scent with all the delicious aromas of garlic, tomato, basil and mushrooms but at the same time it just doesn’t smell appetizing since this is a beer after all, not a pizza or spaghetti sauce. Appearance is a golden blonde color with only a couple of carbonation bubbles seen rising while the head was thick at first but eventually simmered down to a flat layer of film covering. The flavor isn’t very good but I will admit it does have taste similar to a pizza and also starts to leave behind garlic breath which I think is quite disgusting, but natural if I had actually eaten cloves of garlic. There are additional herbs such as basil and oregano in the flavor as well, but in all honesty this is a poor concept if this was to be paired with pizza since why would you want to eat and drink pizza?

This hazy amber beer poured with a thin off-white head and, believe it or not, it smells like pizza. There is a thin caramel malt flavor and a hint of hop bitterness. I won’t be repeating this one.

Bottle from Beverages4Less. Pours hazy orange gold with very little white head. Does have a tomato, undercooked dough aroma set. Medium body with sharpish carbonation. Flavor is pizza spicey at first, then goes rather bready flat. Then it all starts over. Drinkable, but certainly a curiosity. Bet ya can drink just one.

This was one of the most off-the-wall beers I’ve ever tried. I’m not even sure how to rate it. Definite smell of pizza ingredients and it tastes like your drinking a really good pizza. Very different but amazingly pretty good.