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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6.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Small white rim over hazy yellow beer. Spicy, but not overspiced nose, and also a slight chocolate aroma? Again fine spicy taste, this time more coriander-like, but not domination. Light body, and preciously little palate. Doable. Not one you make big searches for, but if you stumble upon it, one to try - only if it is for the gentian.
Tried
on 16 Oct 2008
at 05:06
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle shared by tertons (I think). Its a gusher. With the beautiful light golden shiny body looks awesome in the glass. Aroma is lemon grass, perfume, and spicy wheat. I bet the gentian is responsible for most of it. The spicy really takes over. A bit too much on the lemon-y side, even for me. Taste is a bit more relaxed but still too much lemon. Easy drinking with a bit of nice placed residual sugar sweetness in the very end of the flavor. Of course the carbonation is strong and stingy.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Jul 2008
at 14:52
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
(Bottle, Monk’s Café, Stockholm) Golden amber colour with brief, foamy, white head. Fruity, floral nose with herbs, caramel and fresh grass. Fruity, herbal taste with notes of flowers, spices and bitter-sweet hints of gentian lingering in the background. Surprisingly light body, fairly dry. Refreshing and nice with balanced notes of gentian.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Jun 2008
at 15:57
6.3/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 6
Bottled at Monk’s Café, Stockholm. Clear pale golden, airy head. Interesting herbal nose. Medium sweet with clean, rounded mouthfeel, Medium bodied with an interesting combination of vanilla and bitter herbs. Fresh, drinkable and intense, although perhaps a bit edgy.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 May 2008
at 01:48
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
bel ambrato schiuma non abbondante ma persistente note agrumate di luppolo e fruttata in bocca piuttosto bilanciate il luppolo prevale e le spezie si fanno ben apprezare
Tried
on 10 Mar 2008
at 17:34