Dama Bruna
LoverBeer in Marentino (TO), Piedmont, Italy 🇮🇹
Flemish Red / Bruin Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.95
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Bierkoning (17699) reviewed Dama Bruna from LoverBeer 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Tap @ BBf 2011. Amber color. Oak, vanilla, caramel in the aroma. Soft sour flavor with oak, vanilla, caramel and red berries. Short aftertaste.
rumore (5447) reviewed Dama Bruna from LoverBeer 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Draft at Ranzani 13, Bologna, Italy. Pours plum colour, hazy, with a moderate head of whitish foam, very fine. Aroma is fairly acetic, grapes. Body is average, with good carbonation. Discrete astringency, not extreme. Taste is clearly sour, again not extreme. Finish is fairly short, clean.
explosivedog (14050) reviewed Dama Bruna from LoverBeer 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
375ml bottle, 2016 vintage. Pours red brown. Biscuit, earthy, balsamic complexity, raisins, touch of lemon juice, white wine. Good clean body with a nice spritz to it. Tasty.
Idiosynkrasie (17851) reviewed Dama Bruna from LoverBeer 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
375ml bottle [2011 vintage]. Opaque, dark brown colour with late awakening, small, creamy, half-way lasting, minimally lacing, beige head. Vinous, tart-ish, fruity and spicy aroma, notes of morello, red currant, blackcurrant, blue grapes, hints of balsamico, nutmeg, a touch of dark chocolate mimes the foil. Taste is vinous, slightly dry, tart-ish, dark fruity, slightly spicy, minimally earthy and dark chocolately with subtle residual sweetness, notes of blue grapes and morello, hints of bramble and blackcurrant, dry and bitter hints of fruit parings, a touch of black pepper and nutmeg; lingering tart-ish, fruity finish; an insistent film coats the lips.
daniele (14510) reviewed Dama Bruna from LoverBeer 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
on tap ambrata piuttosto velata non molta schiuma legno cantina non molto intensa discreta acidita lieve caramello
Iznogud (14627) reviewed Dama Bruna from LoverBeer 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
On tap at at Beavertown Extravaganza 2017. Pours hazy amber brown with white head. Fruit, cherries, malty, caramel, some wooden notes. Vinous, medium acidity. Medium bodied.
tmrmwel (4623) reviewed Dama Bruna from LoverBeer 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
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On tap @ What's Brewing 17. Pours hazy hazelnut, with a tiny creamy, mocha head. Aroma is fruity notes of cherries, currants and leather, as well as wooden brett, farmhouse and light red wine vinegar. Medium body, with soft carbonation. Flavour is acidic with red wine vinegar, cherries and fruit peel, as well as some wooden bretty notes, farmhouse and earthy fruits.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Dama Bruna from LoverBeer 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Vintage 37.5 cl bottle of three years old, with ABV of 8.4% rather than the 6.7% given here, perhaps the recipe has been changed meanwhile? Anyway, this is Loverbeer’s tribute to Flemish ’oud bruin’, the brown / red, at least partially barrel aged sour ales indigenous to the south of Flanders; contains wheat, in contrast to the traditional Flemish sours (though Rodenbach is known to contain corn, at least nowadays). Opens with a bang and a lot of smoke, but no gushing. Medium thick, irregularly shaped, pale cream beige coloured, bubbly head quickly dissappearing in the middle but well-retaining around the edge, over a mahogany-bronze beer with warm ruddy red hue, translucent but hazy, very similar in appearance to e.g. a Rodenbach Vintage. Aroma of overripe gooseberry, fresh fig, fermenting apples, balsamico and sherry vinegar, redcurrant, caramel, some ’old furniture’ wood in the background, old and very dry red wine, hints of pickled beetroot, dust, cold tea, dried out blue cheese, old mouldy nut shells - very convincingly ’oud bruin’, in all. Same in the mouth: lots of fruity esters, sweetish in its core but completely embedded in drying sourness, with impressions varying from red apple peel and blue grape over redcurrant and blackberries to the wryness of unripe stonefruit, drenched in a sherry vinegar-like acidity - though I hasten to add that this acidity remains altogether fairly soft, with a drying effect rather than anything puckering. The wheat seems to accentuate the sour character rather well and matches nicely with the caramelly barley malt core, which works agains the wheat in softening the sourness, so that everything comes to balance. Meanwhile redcurrant-, unripe grape- and yellow plum-like sourness continues to dry the mouth, leading to a quenching, fairly complex finish in which the malty ’underground’ and the fruit tartness are accompanied by a lovely tannic woodiness, quite outspoken in the end, actually tasting like old furniture as it were; an earthy, late hop bitterish touch brings things to closure, along with an afterglow of warming, sherry-like alcohol. A first, brief glimpse of onsetting oxidation seems to appear retronasally but very shallowly so and not disturbing at all - in fact making things more interesting. A balsamic vinegar-ish flavour lingers after swallowing. I’ve seen many non-Flemish attempts at this style pass by, some classically oriented and true to the originals like this one, some more experimental, but in the majority of the cases, the acidity is too much on the sharp and puckering side and insufficiently backed by a rounded malt body. These issues are not under discussion here: this one has clearly understood the essence, complexity and fragile balance of authentic ’oud bruin’ (or rather ’Vlaams rood’ but I won’t open that discussion here). This is a lovely example, with some bitterish balsamico-like notes adding some complexity, an outspoken ’old wood’ character and the perfect amount of sourness for this style; glad I found this as a vintage from 2014, I have a suspicion that some years of cellaring did this beer good. In any case: textbook example of the style, even though made in northern Italy. Perhaps a bit too classic, though: connecting a beer like this to the indigenous Italian wine culture in some or other way, like several other Italian craft brewers have done, may lead to even further greatness...