Contessa
Birra Amiata in Arcidosso (GR), Tuscany, Italy 🇮🇹
Brewed at/by: The WallIPA Regular
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Score
7.07
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6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
From tap at Moeder Lambic. Pours clear and golden yellow with a huge and lacing white head. Aroma is fruity, floral and light spiced. Crisp fruity, mellow and light malty note. Smooth fruity and crisp hoppy finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 03 Mar 2012
at 15:47
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottled @ cgarvieuk’s Need some Cupboard Space tasting. Clear golden colour, off-white head. Nose is slightly vegetables, rubber upfront, followed by grapefruit. Flavour is grapefruit, hoppy, oily. Fairly bitter finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Oct 2011
at 11:48
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
2nd August 2011
GBBF. Bottle split with Scopey and Leighton. Hazy gold beer, big off white creamy head. Light, soft and dry palate. Nice hops, fresh orange with a little peach. Mild honeyish malt. Semi dry finish. Decent.
GBBF. Bottle split with Scopey and Leighton. Hazy gold beer, big off white creamy head. Light, soft and dry palate. Nice hops, fresh orange with a little peach. Mild honeyish malt. Semi dry finish. Decent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Sep 2011
at 09:34
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle at GBBF 2011, with Ken and Leighton. It pours hazy orange, with a thin white head. The nose is orange, mango, lemon, red apple and urine. The taste is mango, pineapple, juicy orange, sweaty sock, grass and hay, with a big bitter finish. Medium body and moderate carbonation. A very tasty and juicy IPA.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Sep 2011
at 05:37
7.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle at GBBF 2011, Day 1, shared with Ken and Paul. Pours hazy gold with a bubbly, white head. Cat urine and grass in the aroma. Yes! Faint straw and honey. Great hops in the flavor, grass, hay and straw, medium sweetness. Mild zesty citrus. Medium bodied with fine to average carbonation. Mild sticky finish, some good hay, light sweat, grass. Great balance makes this a very drinkable brew.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Sep 2011
at 14:58
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
A golden amber ale with a super thick white head. In aroma, tropical fruits like papaya, grainy malt, herbaceous hops, interesting. An interesting sweet fruity malt, with light Italian herbs, tropical fruits, incense, a bit light bodied, but nice overall. On tap at Moeder Lambic Fontainas, July 13, 2011.
Tried
from Draft
on 26 Aug 2011
at 19:52
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draught Huge, very dense white head, amazingly persistent over faintly veiled golden-orange beer. Hoppy nose, with citrus, grapefruit, ureum and passion fruit, but sweetish. Seems halfway between USA (more) and EU hops (less). Very perfumed sweet taste with background hoppy notes; citrus and quite a bit of rosewater. Sweet, essentialy, which is unsettling for an IPA. DMS in saltiness, shrimplike. The shrimp flavour gets stronger with mounting temperature. The beer or the lines? Very creamy texture from the persisting head, the beer is slick, but not really bodied. Not bad, but this is not a real topper. I wonder how the bottle would compare to the keg.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Aug 2011
at 12:14
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Draught at Moeder Lambic Fontainas. Deep gold to amber, high head. Malty nose with grassy hops, lemon, tropical fruit, mango, peach. Nice hop aroma. Sweet honey lemon flavor, smooth and silky, low carbonation. Nice hops. Not terribly exciting, but a tasty pale ale.
Tried
on 04 Aug 2011
at 03:45