Genziana
Birra del Borgo in Borgorose (RI), Lazio, Italy 🇮🇹
Spiced / Herbed / Vegetable / Honey - Herbal Regular|
Score
6.55
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One of our ‘terroir’ beers, brewed with Gentian roots, traditionally used for a local liqueur, added at the very end of the boil. The aromas are peppery, earthy and floral. The mouthfeel is firstly of honey flavors then earthy, peppery and yellow fruits. The finish is delicate and long lasting.
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6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Clear golden with a medium white head. Sweet and yeasty aroma with ripe fruits, caramel and malt. Fruity flavour with malt, yeast, caramel and ripe fruits. Finished somewhat dry from the hops.
Tried
on 02 Jul 2010
at 22:45
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
From tap at Open Baladin. Pours hazy orange with a small white head. Aroma is mild fruity and slight yeasty. Sweet fruity flavoured. Mild citrusy hops note, slight peachy too. Light mellow yeasty note. Ends dry and mellow.
Tried
from Draft
on 22 Jun 2010
at 22:31
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Sweet aroma, citric fruitiness, orange peel. Cloudy dark yellow colour. Small white head. The flavour has a good, clean bitterness, like orange peel again. Good refreshing fruit flavour. Sweet, but balanced.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Jun 2010
at 14:20
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draught @ Open Baladin Roma, Via degli Specchi 6, Roma, Italy 00186.Clear medium orange color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, white to off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, moderate hoppy, flowers, gentian! Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a average to long duration, flowers, anis seed. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20100602]
Tried
on 12 Jun 2010
at 05:18
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Tap @ Open Baladin, Rome. Pours unclear orange with a small creamy white head. Nose is yeast and herbs. Lots of coriander and some cardemum. Dry yeasty and fruity flavor. Medium bodied. Spicy end
Tried
from Draft
on 10 Jun 2010
at 01:38
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle from JV Wine & Spirits in Napa, CA. Pours gold with a huge foamy white head. Nice aroma, but hard to describe. Medium body with foamy carbonation. The flavor is rather concord grapey. Also somewhat woody. Certainly a bittering aspect. Marvelously different and quite wonderful. Finishes clean and refreshing - but quite uncommon.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Jan 2010
at 20:50
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Bottled (AR 2010)@MC
Hazy orange color, small off-white head. Grassy, leafy, cardboardish, spelt aroma. A bit tart, sweetish honey, some herbal notes in the flavor. Sweetish aftertaste. Soft palate.
Hazy orange color, small off-white head. Grassy, leafy, cardboardish, spelt aroma. A bit tart, sweetish honey, some herbal notes in the flavor. Sweetish aftertaste. Soft palate.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Dec 2009
at 15:41
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottled@Monks Café, Wallingatan. Orange colour, small white head. Aroma is wood, some glue and mild notes of alcohol and herbs. Also some green apples. Flavour i malty, some glue, mild grassyness as well as some mild earthyness and herbs.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Sep 2009
at 12:26
5.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Clear amber, thin pale head. Aroma of freshly mown grass. Dry, malty, spiced. Not sure about this one. Gentian is a disinfectant that I’ve used to clean out people’s wounds in the emergency room.
Tried
on 28 Nov 2008
at 21:25
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
courtesy of one of our tasting member. Pours golden Aroma / taste, floral and herbal. Love the idea of the unique use of this flower gentian that really brought something new to a beer. Beer was really smooth to sip, leaving a fresh floral/herbal feel almost of mint.
Tried
on 27 Nov 2008
at 01:56