A.F.O.
Birrificio del Ducato in Soragna (PR), Emilia-Romagna, Italy 🇮🇹
Amber / Red Ale - American Regular|
Score
6.81
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Released the same year as Viaemilia at the end of March 2007, A.F.O. was our second creation. The history of this beer dates back to when Giovanni Campari, brewmaster and founder of the brewery, first came into contact with the new and irresistible character of American hops. Back home, he decided to make the Ale of his dreams, which expressed a complex bouquet, fascinating but never usual. He traveled between England and Germany, visiting hop growers and experimenting, carrying out a research into the olfactory territory of hops which finally materialized in the current A.F.O.
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6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle 75cl.Unclear medium orange amber color with a average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, moderate hoppy, grapefruit, exotic fruit, sour and acidic, light to moderate yeasty. Flavor is moderate sweet and light to moderate bitter with a average to long duration. Bitternes is grapefruit shell. Body is medium, texture is watery, carbonation is soft. (060808)
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Dec 2008
at 03:22
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5
Bottle. Orange colour. Smells hops and malt. Hoppy taste with small bitterness in the aftertaste. Kind of watery.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Dec 2008
at 10:26
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle from Systembolaget. Nice golden brown, the bubbles from the carbonation stick to the glas and there were not much of head which lowers the appearance rateing. It reminds me of a lighter version of doubble bastard but with german hops...
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Dec 2008
at 04:30
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle at home ... from GBBF 08 Haul ... hazy copper.. light yeasty piney hop ... tart lime fruit hop... quite sharp ... juicy ... low bitterness in linger ... medium heavy carbonation ... medium body...
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Dec 2008
at 15:28
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
(Bottle 33 cl) Courtesy of yespr. Hazy amber golden with an off-white head. Aroma of fruit, caramel and good aroma hops. Quite full-bodied, a pleasant fruitiness - peachy - and a very solid hop bite in the finish. A fine one. 030608
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Oct 2008
at 10:15
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
bottled: Pours hazy dark amber with big, firm head. Sweet and hoppy aroma with yeasty notes. Fruity flavour with long piney and resiny bitterness. Quite good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Sep 2008
at 12:23
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Hopfig-aromatischer Geruch mit trocken herber Note. Im Antrunk hopfig-fruchtig, schnell trocken herb werdend. Vollmundig aber nicht übertrieben hopfig, ab dem hinteren Mittelteil röstig malzig sowie etwas fruchtiger. Harmonische Mischung zwischen Hopfen und Malz, angenehm bitterer Nachhall. Test vom 30.8.2008, Gebinde: Glasflasche Noten: 12,10,10,12,12,11 - 11,00
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Aug 2008
at 08:15
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle? at GBBF 2008 Very interesting aroma in which I detected some washing up liquid, and this wasn’t as a result of a glass clean, furthermore I didn’t find this off putting. Tasted lovely in the mouth, soft but ever present hops, some fruitiness coursing through lazy but lingering bitterness, its pretty good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Aug 2008
at 13:49
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottled (Ale For Obsessed). Amber colour, medium creamy white head. Aroma is wood, yeast, grass, caramel malts and some mild spices. Flavour is caramel malts, grassy hops, fruits and mild yeastyness. Very wellbalanced and pleasant.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Aug 2008
at 15:11
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
33 cL bottle. Pours hazy orange with with a fully diminished off-white head. Grapefruity hops aroma with a mild sweetness, light liqourice note. Dry hops flavour with a nice liqourice note and a solid bitterness following. Ends fruity and dry hoppy.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Jun 2008
at 02:59