Bran Reserva
Birrificio Montegioco in Montegioco (AL), Piedmont, Italy 🇮🇹
Barley Wine - Barley Special|
Score
7.57
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Nel bicchiere è nera, impenetrabile, con schiuma color cappuccino; al naso convivono le tostature (con un sentore che ricorda la pasta del cacao) e le note derivanti dal passaggio in legno (che ricordano l’aceto balsamico).
In bocca è decisamente articolata: da un lato le evidenti note tostate, di cacao, di salsa di soia, dall’altra l’acidità.
Lunghissima in bocca, nel finale emerge il tannino del legno e una lieve astringenza di tostatura.
Birra molto complessa, difficile, per gli amanti delle emozioni forti.
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Bierkoning (17699) reviewed Bran Reserva from Birrificio Montegioco 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle from Secret Santa. Deep dark brown color, almost opague. Grapes and oak in the aroma. Vanilla, roast, oak, apple, grapes and hints of ash in the flavor. tart and fauirly complex. Sweet and completely unnoticeable alcohol. Great beer!
mcberko (47456) reviewed Bran Reserva from Birrificio Montegioco 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
2009 vintage. 375mL bottle, courtesy of fiulijn (thanks Alex), pours a deep dark mahogany / dark brown with a small beige head. Aroma is very dry, oaky and vinous, with dry wood and grapes. Flavour is similar, with dominating dry vinous and oaky notes - I get mostly wine and wood here. Quite complex. Drinkable in small amounts, as the intense wine and oak become slightly overbearing after a while. This has held up exceptionally well over the past 5 years. Nice stuff.
SHIG (13882) reviewed Bran Reserva from Birrificio Montegioco 12 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle: Poured a reddish black with thin tan color head. Aroma was strong sour grapes and very wine like. Taste was sour grapes with offsetting malts and strong alcohol warming.
fiulijn (28382) reviewed Bran Reserva from Birrificio Montegioco 13 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
2014-10-25, vintage 2009, 5 years old, 8-4-8-4-17=41
Perfect balance, good chocolate, very vinous, maturing very well. Excellent.
2012-03-24, bottle from the brewer, thanks Riccardo! Vintage 2009, 3 years old, 8-4-8-4-16=40
Very dark brown color, almost black; small head. Aroma of dark malts, chocolate, with a pleasant wine twist, light wood too. The body is strong enough, with malt flavor, chocolate, quite strong sour presence, light fruits, vinous. Astringent final.
Dynamic and very pleasant, complex.
fonefan (84534) reviewed Bran Reserva from Birrificio Montegioco 13 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Bottle 375ml.Clear dark brown colour with a small to average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, caramel, dark malt, berry, tart, barnyard, dark berries, raisin, plum, oak, red wine. Flavour is moderate to heavy sweet and light to moderate acidic with a long duration, raisin, red wine. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20120324]
madmitch76 (40452) reviewed Bran Reserva from Birrificio Montegioco 13 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
14th September 2009
Opaque brown beer. Crisp palate. Sour start but it’s not puckery! Unsweet wood and some herbs in the malt. Finishes tangy and a crisp. An interesting sourish dark beer.
Dedollewaitor (22132) reviewed Bran Reserva from Birrificio Montegioco 13 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle @ Miss January / AA Meeting Afterparty Tasting, March 2012. Pours dark brown with a creamy bubbly head on top. Nose is fruity and tart. Lots of oak, caramel and red wine. Vinous, dry and tart. Really nice.
daniele (14510) reviewed Bran Reserva from Birrificio Montegioco 13 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
scura schiuma media poco persistente naso maltato leggero fruttato vinoso un tocca acido poco gasata discreta acidita finale non molto lungo
Fata2683 (2200) reviewed Bran Reserva from Birrificio Montegioco 14 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
bottle pours dark brown with a thin tan head that fades quickly leaving little trace. Aroma is dry red wine, strawberries, big horseblanket notes. Flavor is rich toast and caramel malt notes, mild booze and a big red wine finish of oak, leather and grape tannin. Really nice beer.
bhensonb (22605) reviewed Bran Reserva from Birrificio Montegioco 15 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9
333 from Pizza Port Bottle Shop. The plastic bottle cap liner is more 3D than any I’ve ever seen. Pours quite black with a fluffy, bubbly 3/16 inch tan head. It smells like sour wine. Not vinegar. Sour wine. Near full in body with very mild carbonation. The flavor is vinous and sour. Red wine yes. Barbera? It seems too smooth for such a crude wine. Maybe oak aged Barbera (vice E&J Gallo) does become smooth. So barley wine? No way. This is a sour ale. Friggin brilliant. Right in there with Flemish sours. Perhaps a discriminator is that there seems to be a hit of sweet at the end of each sip. Or this may be too complex for my palate. Friggin brilliant!!!!!