Riserva Speciale
Birra Amarcord in Apecchio (PU), Marche, Italy 🇮🇹
Bière de Champagne / Bière Brut Regular|
Score
6.90
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This is obviously a celebratory beer. Its high alcohol content (10 degrees by volume) and the other organoleptic characteristics that distinguish it, such as some unusual ingredients, among which the Champagne yeasts, two types of honey (wildflower and acacia) and some stand out wild fruits, among which the sour cherry and the blackthorn are the prizes. Its foam is affected by the intense alcohol content and is not necessarily persistent any longer than is allowed by its powerful ethyl burden.
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6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
75 cL bottle. Pours hazy orange with a small white head. Aroma is fruity, toasted malty and light yeasty. Fruity, yeasty and mellow hoppy. Citric and lingering fruity. Dry and mellow citrusy into a crisp hoppy finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Mar 2012
at 22:10
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Creamy white good mostly lasting head. Dark orange colour. Moderate malty and light hoppy and yeasty aroma. Moderate bitter spicey flavor. Average moderate bitter finish. Almost no fruity esters. Dry.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Jan 2012
at 05:48
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Pours a hazy pale reddish amber color with a small white head. Has a fruity spicy yeasty aroma. Sweetish malty spicy yeasty flavor with hitns of caramel. Has a sweetish malty spicy yeasty finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Nov 2011
at 01:59
7.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
75 cl. bottle/shared@Chez Moeder Lambic: swing-top, version with a white label and blue peacock, cloudy orange/slight pink hue, taste is lots of slightly sweet wheat, pale malts, slightly tart & boozy fruits (raspberries, oranges, grapes, berries,…), hoppy, esters, spices, hint of venous aftertaste, slight booze aftertaste, hint of Champagne body & carb
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Oct 2011
at 02:52
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Very fine & dense head with a faint pinkish sheen; orange-amberish beer with again a faint rosy/pink haze; textbook lace. Alcoholic, fruity (wild fruit, unripe raspberry, orangezeste), and greenery. Again unripe or wild, tart fruit. Faint artichoke-like flavour with some more pale malts and other grain. In a discreet way, vinous. Quite carbonated MF, some alcohol, but again discreet. Medium bodied at best, seems well-attenuated. Fine, but not really outstanding. Wheat is not obvious. I wonder what the Garrett Oliver connection might be. The Italian is too exotic for me.
Tried
on 13 Aug 2011
at 12:27
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 7
Tasted this at a special tasting session at Café Buitenlust, Oirschot, given by Benito. It’s quite an experience to drink this one. A colour i hadn’t seen before, very luxurious glasses. Doesn’t have to much of a smell except for something sweetish, honey like. Some people loved it, but to me it was a bit to watery and lacking in taste. Special one though.
Tried
on 27 Jun 2011
at 10:10
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Amarcord Riserva Speciale (by Birra Amarcord):
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 13/20, MyTotalScore: 3.3/5
25/11/2010 - 75cl bottle @ horeca expo 2010
Cloudy light amber coloured beer, little white head. Aroma: malts, grasses, spices, some hops. MF: soft carbon, medium to full body. Soft creamy texture. Taste: first sweet malts, then some spices, hop bitters and fruits. Aftertaste: fruity, citrus fruits, hop dryness. I was pleasantly surprised by the quality of this beer.
Note: I also had another sample from a bottle with yellow label, with lots of American hops. It was even better, but alas no tasting notes. :(
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 13/20, MyTotalScore: 3.3/5
25/11/2010 - 75cl bottle @ horeca expo 2010
Cloudy light amber coloured beer, little white head. Aroma: malts, grasses, spices, some hops. MF: soft carbon, medium to full body. Soft creamy texture. Taste: first sweet malts, then some spices, hop bitters and fruits. Aftertaste: fruity, citrus fruits, hop dryness. I was pleasantly surprised by the quality of this beer.
Note: I also had another sample from a bottle with yellow label, with lots of American hops. It was even better, but alas no tasting notes. :(
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Nov 2010
at 08:03