Bottle. Color: Lightly hazy golden, no head. Aroma: Tart, grape, grapeskin. Taste: Over medium tart, puckering vinegar notes, (unripe) grape, grapeskin, quite a lot of tannins. Funky hints. Long lasting finish. A lot of taste for a relatively low alcoholic beer. Medium body, very low carbonation. Very refreshing grape ale.

Low alcohol grape ale – this unique Italian style need not always be barleywine-like apparently – made with unripe (!) Marzemino grapes from Trentino. Thanks to Ama Deke for sharing at Billie’s Craft Beer Fest. Snow white, open but otherwise stable ring of foam on a hazy deep golden beer with vague khaki tinge. Aroma of indeed sour green grapes and lots of them, green gooseberry, Granny Smith apple, sourdough, unsugared yoghurt, chalky note, unripe peach, raw rhubarb, lemon juice hint. Lots of rhubarb- and green apple-like green, tart fruitiness in the onset, very crisp, the sourness accentuated by lively carbonation; quite full-bodied for this modest ABV. Wheat-slick, cereally malt core dried by green grape astringency but nowhere harsh, along with chalky notes feeling like a Berliner Weisse rather than an Italian grape ale. Yoghurty-sour finish, something sweaty, with lots of sour grape effects, adding a tannic grape peel factor to the whole. Crisp, very ‘green’ and ‘crystalline’, utterly refreshing and very ‘different’ take on the Italian grape ale idea, pleasantly surprising indeed.

Sampled @ Billie's Craft Beer Fest 2021. A slightly hazy yellow golden beer. Aroma of tart pale malt, grapes. Taste of grapes, lime, brett.

13/XI/21 - sample @ Billies Craft Beer Festival Day 2 (Waagnatie, Antwerp), BB: n/a (2021-1420) Thanks to the Brewver crew and other beer buddies for sharing today’s beers!

Pretty cloudy pale yellow beer, no head. Aroma: very sourish impression, lactobacillus, vinegar, spicy, peppery, very funky. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: sourish start, very acidic, very lemony, some tropical fruits. Aftertaste: very sourish, burning acidic, lemon juice, meh…

Great sour. Crisp neitral tart smazingч Billies bf antwerp good Billies bf antwerp

Bottiglia, dopo quasi un anno a riposare in anfora. All'olfatto si esprimono sentori di sour. L'olfatto viene stimolato in maniera elevata e il modo in cui permane è apprezzabile. Il cappello di schiuma resiste poco. La grandezza delle bollicine è a grana fine. Il liquido è di consistenza limpida. Il colore è giallo dorato. Il corpo è pieno. L'amaro è contenuto. La forza gustativa è elevata e la durata è buona. Il finale è acido. Sul tetto della bocca si attestano indizi di agrumi, limone verde, mela verde acerba e pipì di gatto.

Tap@Himmeriget, Copenhagen - Orange pour with white head. Tart fruity with notes of grape, light apricot, some bretty action, medium acidic, light floral, grape skin, medium to light body, tart green grape fruity finish.

From tap. Pours cloudy orange, small white head. Aroma is wooden, citric and fruity. Wineous, fruity. Bretty and funky. Dry, citric and sourish. Smooth fruity and sourish finish.