L'Ultima Luna
(has 1 batch)
Birrificio del Ducato in Soragna (PR), Emilia-Romagna, Italy 🇮🇹
Barley Wine - Barley Regular|
Score
7.26
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L’Ultima Luna is aged in Amarone barrels, filled only for 2/3 of their volume to favor the oxidation of beer with air (a tribute to the oxidized wines of Andalusia). The beer ages at least 24 months, up to 48 months. For the 11th years of the Brewery a special edition of 60 months has been produced. What fascinates in this beer is the exceptional complexity of tertiary aromas due to oxidation (leather, Madeira, dried fruit, cocoa, wood, toasted almond).
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7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle 330ml. @ Th. 4th. Alvinne Craft Beer Festival (ACBF) 2011, De Kasteelhoeve, Doorniksesteenweg 314, Outrijve (Avelgem), Belgium.Clear medium to dark red amber color with virtually none head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, caramel, tobacco, wood, raisin - cherry - fruity - berry. Flavor is heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration, dried berry, tobacco, wood. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat, finish feel is light to moderate alcoholic. [20110304]
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Mar 2011
at 10:10
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
[3/4/11] Bottle at ACBF 2011. Clear deep amber-brown. Aroma of malt, caramel, cookies and soy sauce. Sweet caramelly flavor with lots of malt, fruits and some soy sauce. Finishes slightly drier. Medium-full-bodied.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Mar 2011
at 09:01
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bouteille @ ACBF 2011. Couleur cuivre, mousse est fine beige. Arôme garde une approche bien italienne, je ne pouvais pas m’empêcher de noter une fine présence de noisette. Cela était agréablement accompagné par le malt ainsi que le chêne et une très légère touche de vin. En bouche, je garde ce côté noisette avec un malt un peu biscuité allant sur du caramel. Le tout reste léger en bouche avec un léger fini grillé. L’aspect magnifique de cette bière est la dimension que le fût de chêne de vin donne à la bière. Une bière au caractère évolutif et qui s’améliorera avec l’age.
Tried
on 06 Mar 2011
at 14:33
9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 10
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 9
Looks like dark Armenian brandy - and that doesn’t look bad either. Overwhelming, superb, brandy-like nose, with tutti frutti on brandy, rich and onctuous. Fruity, woody, alcohol and fusels, and... everything you’ld ask from a perfect pousse-caféSips viscous-oily and warming, again like cognac; palate is off the charts. Aftertaste has some more winey notes, rather than brandy. This is simply... overpowering. And yet it’s oh so much more drinkable and refined than, say, a Samuel Adams Millenium...
Tried
on 05 Mar 2011
at 12:43
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 10
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Imported from my RateBeer account as Birrificio del Ducato L'Ultima Luna (by Birrificio del Ducato (Duvel Moortgat)):
Aroma: 10/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 16/20, MyTotalScore: 4/5
05/03/2011 - 33cl bottle @ Alvinne Craft Beer Festival (2011-82)
Clear brown ale, dark brown sediment, no head. Aroma: port, red wine, spices, orange peel, herbs, ... MF: flat, medium to full body, little syrupy texture. Taste: little sweet, fruity, soft, vinous, vie d'eau, alcohol. Aftertaste: little sweet, alcohol, some sour notes, orange peel.
Aroma: 10/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 16/20, MyTotalScore: 4/5
05/03/2011 - 33cl bottle @ Alvinne Craft Beer Festival (2011-82)
Clear brown ale, dark brown sediment, no head. Aroma: port, red wine, spices, orange peel, herbs, ... MF: flat, medium to full body, little syrupy texture. Taste: little sweet, fruity, soft, vinous, vie d'eau, alcohol. Aftertaste: little sweet, alcohol, some sour notes, orange peel.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Mar 2011
at 08:05
5.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Expensive 12.7oz bottle pours murky copper brown with meek white head. The aroma is moldy warm grapefruit, lime, tart red wine, faint wood notes and a sense of sticky malts. The taste is similar with a quick pulse of sweet malts followed by moldy sun warmed citrus, red wine, dry tannins and mild prune to fig undercurrents. This has a water thin mouthfeel too. A soured barleywine but it doesn’t work as well (for me) as others I’ve been lucky enough to try.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Dec 2010
at 16:52
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottled @ Birroteca, Greve. Hazy orange brown color, short head. Sweet aroma of caramel malt, bit roasted, bit red wine, some raisin, orange. Good strong and sweet taste, bit bitter. Decent barley wine.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Aug 2010
at 08:00