Birrificio Baladin Rock'n'Roll

Rock'n'Roll

 

Birrificio Baladin in Piozzo (CN), Piedmont, Italy 🇮🇹

  Pale Ale - American Style / APA Regular
Score
6.88
ABV: 7.2% IBU: 44 Ticks: 109
A beer with a white head and a persistent finish, Rock’n’Roll has a deep color and a slight, homogeneous hazy appearance. The first peppery scents leave room to light spices and notes of cereals, with a balanced harmony between freshness and warmth. The cereals sing their sweet notes while the ensemble of pepper, spices and hops supports them with a powerful counterpoint.
 

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7.5/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 7.5 Flavor 7.5 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Can (080/250 - 3 08/2027 on bottom of can) from Steve. Lightly hazy, golden yellow, light sparkle, ring of head, no lacing. Aroma is strong pepper, apricot, malt. Taste is strong pepper, spice (grains of paradise?), apricot, malt. Smooth texture, soft carbonation, finish as taste. Pepper and spice is strong but not overwhelming. Spices add unique interest.
Tried from Can on 27 Jul 2026 at 01:40

7/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 6.5 Flavor 7 Texture 7 Overall 7.5
Hazy golden. Aroma is mint resin some fruit some turkish honey. Taste is medium bitter hops with little sweetness. Quite bitter finish. Somewhat rough but still enjoyable. Smooth and oily on the tongue. Good drinkability. Not bad.
Tried from Can on 23 Jun 2026 at 21:05

7.3/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 7 Overall 7.5
Again not a bad, it could have more aromas, decent pale ale, side of hop, malty and a bit sweet for the style, 20.05.19, in one bar at Freiburg, shared with one ex ratebeerian to exchange some beers.
Tried from Draft on 01 Feb 2026 at 07:05

7.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7.5 Flavor 7.5 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
APA à l'italienne, by one of Italy's great pioneers in artisanal brewing, having done so for three decades now; from bottle at Pane & Vino, an Italian restaurant in the Nederkouter in Ghent. Salute Jacqueline! Snow white, moussey, medium thick, stable, bit creamy head on a warm orangey golden robe with near-amberish tinge, misty with sediment. Aroma of lemon bread, orange peel, dried lemon thyme, biscuit, vague cheese rind, white pepper, green melon, Cape gooseberry. Crisp, sweetish onset, rounded and focused, clean with the orange, Cape gooseberry and green melon returning, medium in carbonation with slick, oily mouthfeel gliding down dangerously easily. While doing so, it leaves a trace of biscuity malts with a smooth cracker-ish edge, followed by citrusy, mildly peppery and floral hops, providing a bright orange peel- and lemon zest-like aroma and gentle yet confident, adequate bitterness. Supple, bright, colourful APA, very much to the point of what this style is all about - Baladin proving its keen sense of flavour and technique again, but also its deep connection with the earlier days of U.S. style craft brewing. Enjoyed it very much.
Tried on 05 Sep 2025 at 23:28

7.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 7 Overall 7
(Draught at Baladin Camden, London, 29 May 2025) Golden colour with frothy, white head. Fruity, hoppy nose with citrus, pineapple and peaches. Fruity, hoppy taste with notes of citrus, grapefruit, pineapple, peaches, white bread and a balanced citric/piney bitterness. More than medium body, with a touch of sweetness. Tasty and well balanced. Nice one.
Tried from Draft at Baladin Camden on 18 Jun 2025 at 20:18

6.8/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 10 Overall 5
Bottle. Pours orangeish with a thin head. Your classic widely available oldschool hoppy beer. It’s citric, somewhat grassy, obviously oxidized a bit with a honey sweetness and massive malt body. Medium to full bodied with soft to average carbonation.
Tried from Bottle on 17 Mar 2025 at 12:18

8.4/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 9 Overall 8
Optisch goldgelb und opaltrüb mit leicht sichtbaren Trubstoffen. Die weiße, feinporige, benahe cremige Schaumkrone gibt sich dabei flaumig und unglaublich langlebig. Der Duft schmeichelt mit getreidigen, brotigen Malznoten und geht mit einer leichten Staubigkeit in eine weiche Hefecharakteristik über. Gelbe Steinobstnoten paaren sich mit kräuterigen bis heuigen Noten. Der Antrunk kommt süßlich, honigartig malzig, feinrezent und kräuterig bis heuig und leicht bitter hopfenaromatisch. Im Mund zeigt sich ein Körper mit guter Fülle, weicher, feiner Rezenz, cremiger Textur und einem Hang zur Süße. Geschmacklich und aromatisch breitet sich eine getreidige, brotige bis honigartige Malzbasis aus. Darüber legt sich eine sehr angenehme, leicht würzig-pfeffrige, kräuterige bis grasig-heuige, sehr zart bittere Hopfenaromatik. Das ergibt in Summe ein recht vielschichtiges, unglaublich gut komponiertes Gesamtbild auf hohem Level mit einer, für 7,5 % Alkohol, unglaublich hohen Drinkability. Im Nachtrunk halten sämtliche Aromen sehr lange an und man kann sich zurücklehnen und dieses Bier richtig genießen. Erst nach mehreren Minuten setzt sich eine zart trockene Hopfencharakteristik durch.
Fazit: Ich würde dieses Bier sogar weniger im Bereich des American Pale Ale einordnen, sondern viel mehr im italienischen "dolce far niente". Es ähnelt sogar eher der Charakteristik eines Bière de garde. Und ja, es darf und soll auch ruhig so sein, dass sich dieses Pale Ale sehr nach dem italienischen Gaumen richtet und einer regionalen Charakteristik entspricht. So taugt es mit seiner kräftigen und vielseitigen Aromatik als toller Begleiter zu ebenso aromatischen Speisen wie Speck, Salami, reifem Käse, aber auch Pasta mit Trüffel. Das ist schon ganz großes Kino!
Tried from Bottle on 09 Feb 2025 at 00:11

6.8/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 7 Overall 7
Old rating from 2016 - 330ml bottle, pours cloudy orange with a white head. Aromas & tastes of fruits, citrus, honey, vanilla, biscuit, pepper, hops, yeast & malt. Moderate body. Light bitter finish.
Tried from Bottle on 03 Feb 2025 at 21:00

Tried from Draft on 28 Dec 2024 at 11:36

7/10
Tried on 30 May 2024 at 21:58