Bran
Birrificio Montegioco in Montegioco (AL), Piedmont, Italy 🇮🇹
Barley Wine - Barley Regular|
Score
7.00
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labeerinthum (8508) reviewed Bran from Birrificio Montegioco 1 year ago
Appearance - 5 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 14
Bottiglia. All'olfatto si esprimono sentori di orzo tostato. L'olfatto viene sollecitato in maniera elevata e la continuità olfattiva è apprezzabile. Il cappello di schiuma ha una scarsa tenuta. La grandezza delle bollicine è a grana media. Il colore è come l'inchiostro nero. Il corpo è strutturato. L'amaro è contenuto. L'intensità gustativa è elevata. La costanza gustativa è buona. Il gusto è piacevole. Il finale è lungo, pulito e complesso. Il retrogusto è intenso. In bocca l'aroma riconosce miele, caffè, liquirizia, pane tostato, luppolo, agrumi e frutta secca.
tricksta_p (13664) reviewed Bran from Birrificio Montegioco 1 year ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle at home. As "Birra Montegioco Bran", abv 8.8%. Huge explosive gusher upon opening the bottle. Aroma is dark malt, spicy notes, roast, Belgian yeast, coffee, dark chocolate, some caramel, touch of raisins. Flavour is medium sweet with some roasty bitterness in the finish. Body is medium, a bit too heavily carbonated. Overall quite nice, a bit like a meeting of Belgian strong dark ale and Porter.
rumore (5447) reviewed Bran from Birrificio Montegioco 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
33cl bottle from Abeervinum, Rimini, Italy. Pours pitch black, with no foam. Aroma is coffee, hoppy, earthy. Body is average, with moderate carbonation. Taste is medium bitter, with a little roasty and also a little vanilla sweetness. Final is
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Bran from Birrificio Montegioco 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 8
Italian dark barleywine, from tap at Dok Brewing Company in Ghent. Regularly shaped, creamy, opening, pale yellowish beige, stable head over a very dark bronze beer with hazy burgundy glow. Aroma of caramel sauce, candied fig, raisin bread, cola, raw red cabbage, ruby port, hazelnut oil, dried banana and a splash of rainwater. Sweet onset, candied figs and dates, baked banana, softish carb, thick and rounded, full mouthfeel, yet lacking in the vinous quality I expect from anything labelled as a barleywine. Caramelly and peanutty malt sweet body with a deeper, darker chocolatey edge, lingering fruity notes but otherwise fairly clean, light spicy aspect in the finish with some leafy hop bitterness, a toasty touch and port-like, warming alcohol. Not a barleywine to me but a quadrupel – these styles are often confused especially in a Belgian context, which I think served as the source of inspiration here, bit straightforward but clean and technically well executed.
ippopotamo36 (4383) reviewed Bran from Birrificio Montegioco 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
On tap @So Good in Rome-Italy. Black color with an ivory medium foam. Nose: ripped prunes, dried fruit, Belgian character, cherries. Mouth: a smokey/burnt malts feel, clean body, round Belgian strong character, the finish is quite peppery although a bit thin.
Maurice (8362) ticked Bran from Birrificio Montegioco 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Almost black. Not too big mocha head which recedes quite quickly but still leaves a bit of lacing. A vivid and warming aroma shows roasted, slightly ’dusty’ malts, liquorice, alcohol warminess and a hint of spiciness. Taste has a bittersweet malt base with caramel and roasted notes, slight coffee, slight spiciness, liquorice and a balsam/herbal note. Finishes again bittersweet with a mild but still not too pleasant aftertaste of burnt caramel/alcohol that quite ruins a very good and complex taste. Medium to dense bodied with low to medium carbonation, quite thick but still going down easy enough. Overall a difficult beer to find words for, let’s say that’s somewhere in the middle of a belgian strong dark ale and a stout. Complex and interesting, maybe not perfectly balanced.
Werckmeister (8041) reviewed Bran from Birrificio Montegioco 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
0,33l bottle at home bought at Astral Beers, Bologna. BB 31.12.2017. dark brown color, small tan head. smells raisins, marzipan, light sherry, light fruity, parfume, some bitter chocolate, licorice. very nice smell. full body, soft carbonation, slick mouthfeel. tastes earthy, dried fruits, light raisins, spices, some sherry, light sweetness. finishes lightly dry with notes of dried fruits and spices. quite good one, i am not a big fan of barley wines, but this one is quite nice and complex.
jcwattsrugger (14787) ticked Bran from Birrificio Montegioco 11 years ago