Birrificio del Ducato Machete Double IPA

Machete Double IPA

 

Birrificio del Ducato in Soragna (PR), Emilia-Romagna, Italy 🇮🇹

  IPA - Imperial / Double Regular
Score
7.05
ABV: 7.6% IBU: 52 Ticks: 102
Machete is an eye-catching Double IPA with an overwhelming but balanced aromatic explosion. Hops emerge in a decisive, powerful and imperious way, triumphing over everything and giving beer hints of grapefruit and tropical fruit.
 

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7.6/10
Tried from Bottle on 01 Jan 2026 at 00:38

5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 4 Overall 5
Light hops, quite a bit of doughy caramel malts. This is very muddled and messy. Quite sweet with some hops in the end with a light bitterness.
Tried on 28 Feb 2025 at 05:35

7.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Hazy amber with a huge frothy white head. Complex floral aroma of malts, yeast, various tropical fruits, spices and hops. Flavour is much the same, some malt sweetness and a moderate bitterness in the aftertaste. Quite a special Double IPA.
Tried on 18 Feb 2025 at 05:18

6.3/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 5 Overall 6
Pours a quite hazy pale golden, average sized white head, good retention and nice lacing. Average intensity in the aroma: citric fruitiness upfront (lemon/lime, grapefruit, maybe a hint of tangerine), a quite vivid piney backbone, perhaps a lightly perceptible crackery malts base. Quite good freshness in a simple, clean aroma. Taste notes follow the aroma, with good enough intensity and so/so definition. Medium sweetness and medium bitterness; balanced, semi-neutral mouth, a slightly unpleasant sweetish reminiscence in the aftertaste that also has a light (and again not totally pleasant) earthy feel. Medium body, average carbonation; a not too fine, slightly coarse carbonation though the overall mouthfeel is still decent. Strikingly similar to their lower abv 'freeride', which i had a few months ago and remember quite well, just a bit more intense obviously. I've pretty much copied that review with a few corrections and i will just copy-paste the overall evaluation here: a very basic ipa, and not so good at that, mediocre but still acceptable.
Tried from Draft on 21 Jan 2025 at 12:52

7/10
Tried from Draft on 23 Aug 2024 at 21:01

7/10
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Tried from Bottle at De Palm on 02 Apr 2022 at 21:40

7.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
On tap at zapap pratello. A really drinkable double IPA, fruity, lots of citrus fruit, pine, light bitterness. Very nice.
Tried from Draft on 17 Mar 2022 at 20:36

8.8/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 8 Flavor 9 Texture 10 Overall 8
Bottle at Lumière Light Amber color, light have, big thick head, persistent, lacing. Flavor of bold pale malts, spices (rosemary, sage), plenty of hops on the tropical/resiny side, apricot, grapefruit, grapes. Thick texture solid body, malty and well hopped. Finish propely dry, super juicy, sugary taste followed by a smooth bitter persistent but not aggressive, a bit spicy. A nice Italian d.ipa
Tried from Bottle on 08 Jul 2021 at 17:32

7/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 6
Bottle, small stable bubbly head, clear deepish gold color, aroma is a melange of citrus and some herbs, flavor is a melange of ripe citrus with a noticable light malty presence, a touch heavy herbal bitterness. Nice.
Tried from Bottle on 13 Mar 2021 at 15:02

6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
33 cl. bottle @ Una Volta, Culemborg. Hazy dark yellow with a white head. Nice hoppy aroma with citrus and tropical fruit notes. Taste is mediumbitter with a smooth creamy malty mouthfeel. Very nice malty DIPA.
Tried from Bottle on 21 Dec 2019 at 19:10