Sedicigradi
(has 1 batch)
Birra del Borgo in Borgorose (RI), Lazio, Italy 🇮🇹
Barley Wine - Barley Regular|
Score
7.69
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A unique and distinctive beer in the international beerbrewing scene. Sixteen is its ABV, sixteen are the months this beer spends ageing in the wooden barriques. This gives the beer a deep complexity in its flavours, aromas and color. A true barley nectar with an ebony tone, dark and dense, that once in the glass emanates unusual aromas: from vanilla and nutty notes to malted ones, finishing with strong and clear toasted and maderized scents. It has a good minerality and a gentle sweetness
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8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
33 cl bottle @ Ma Che Siete Venuti a Fà. Bottled 06.11.2014, batch LS912B
Bottle says 16 months
Aroma has cognac, licorice and ripe fruits. Also chocolate. Flavour has strong licorice tones, alcohol, ripe fruits and raisins. Also some woody tones. Complex and sweet slow sipper, reminds me of some Lost Abbey beers. Gets a bit berryish with calvados at the end of the glass.
Bottle says 16 months
Aroma has cognac, licorice and ripe fruits. Also chocolate. Flavour has strong licorice tones, alcohol, ripe fruits and raisins. Also some woody tones. Complex and sweet slow sipper, reminds me of some Lost Abbey beers. Gets a bit berryish with calvados at the end of the glass.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Apr 2015
at 07:02
8.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 10
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Exclusive, limited, unusually strong Italian barley wine refermented with champagne yeast and oak aged; sampled young at Horeca Expo in Ghent in 2009. Thin, unstable, off-white head, dark burgundy colour, hazy. Intense, extremely seductive and complexely perfumed aroma reminiscent of all kinds of good things: chocolate liqueur, vanilla extract, old port wine, almond, cranberries, raspberries, elderberries, liquorice, sage... Candied fruits in the mouth, liquorice, chocolate sauce, complex spiciness, soft and elegant roasted bitterness in the end, full mouthfeel, alcohol warming but otherwise remarkably well-hidden for a beer of 16% ABV. If you’re a sucker for barley wines like me, you will thoroughly enjoy this; I guess it’s the Italians’ experience with fine wine which leads their progressive breweries to come up with exquisite barley wines like this one. Very memorable and one of the best Italian craft beers I ever tasted.
Tried
from Can
on 04 Sep 2014
at 13:35
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle, big thanks to Luca (Mortlach) for sharing at the one and only Ma Che, Roma, 08/02/14. Lightly hazed/semi murky chestnut brown with moderate beige edgework formed of bubbleage. Nose carries a boozey pa pang, dark toffee, nutty, earthy, dark fruits, Xmas cake mix, sherry twang, woody. Taste comprises rich dark fruits, caramelised sugars, lick’o’booze, woody twang, dates, raisens, dark toffee fudge. Full bodied, fine carbonation. A well balanced barley wine, solid rich dark fruit vein running through it, it never gets overly sweet. The 16% ABV just doesn’s show up in this one ! Good work !
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Feb 2014
at 03:09
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle shared at a tasting at the Beer & Beyond shop. Thanks David K. For this bottle! Murky brown color. Strong malty flavor with wood, some soy sauce, lots of prunes and other dried fruits. Sweet malty flavor with caramel, plums, prunes and raisins. Full-bodied but not syrupy. Great.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Jul 2013
at 07:58
8.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
03/01/2013 330ml bottle (Vintage 2010). Bruna, intensa, riflessi color caffé, schiuma leggera beige, non molto persistente. Naso esplosivo, sentori di datteri e frutta matura, alcol, nocino, vaniglia, anche una nota acidula. In bocca è se possibile ancora più complessa, simile a un Porto, con sentori di frutta matura, caramello, cioccolato, erbe medicinali, un leggero tocco di liquirizia, una leggera astringenza. Corpo pieno, carbonazione leggera. Barley Wine sontuoso!
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Jun 2013
at 01:10
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle: Poured super cloudy dark brown color ale with a small foamy head with minimal retention and some light lacing. Aroma of brown sugar with some dried fruits notes is quite intense. Taste is also dominated by loads of sugar with some dried fruits thought still balanced by a solid malt backbone. Body is full with limited filtration and medium carbonation with no apparent alcohol. This is quite sweet but never gets into gross territory and stays somewhat drinkable with a good amount of complexity.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Feb 2013
at 18:12
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Honigartig süßer, sehr intensiver Geruch. Der Beginn ist ähnlich und vor allem sehr intensiv, hopfig mit starken Malzeinflüssen, würzig, die Süße hält sich dann stärker im Hintergrund auf. Intensive Malznoten mit Tiefgang. /9/9/9/13/9
Tried
on 23 Jun 2012
at 12:32
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Small off-white head over unclear foxy-copper beer. Alcohol, fusels, wood, lactic acid, fresh oak with vanilla, and lots, lots of fruit (red grapes, preserved oranges, peach,...). Taste totally in line with the nose, with again lots of winey esters. Other ferments are obvious: pediococcus,...? Sharp, slightly burning MF, viscous. Overall superb, winey beer in the style of some of the better RR-ion beers.
Tried
on 17 Mar 2012
at 03:48