Malalingua
Retorto Birrificio Artigianale in Podenzano (PC), Emilia-Romagna, Italy 🇮🇹
Barley Wine - Barley Regular|
Score
7.19
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This beer, produced in the classic English Barley Wine style, has a dark copper color. Aromas of red fruit in alcohol, cocoa, caramel and a subtle roasted vein. In the mouth it is warm and enveloping, soft and refined but at the same time balanced with a fairly dry finish.
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8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Courtesy of daniele
Pours a hazy dark amber color with small head and gentle carbonation. The aroma of malt is mild. Full bodied; good malt and caramel flavor, sweet without excess, and correctly balanced by a nice bitterness and some alcohol warmth; it also has a nice fruity side from the fermentation, and some oranges from the hops.
Very nice one; drink fresh, I don’t think it’s suitable for aging.
Pours a hazy dark amber color with small head and gentle carbonation. The aroma of malt is mild. Full bodied; good malt and caramel flavor, sweet without excess, and correctly balanced by a nice bitterness and some alcohol warmth; it also has a nice fruity side from the fermentation, and some oranges from the hops.
Very nice one; drink fresh, I don’t think it’s suitable for aging.
Tried
on 27 Sep 2016
at 20:43
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle 50 cl. Reddish amber with no head - the beer is completely flat. The nose is first and foremost boozy, but underlying complexities do come forward if you give the beer time. Dark warm sugars and dried fruit. Body is rich and equally complex, a lot of oxidation - may remind more of a Sherry to some if it wasn’t for the tiny amount of late hops. I actually dig this, and in a beer like this I can live with the lack of carbonation. 150816
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Aug 2016
at 07:07
4.3/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 3
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 4
Süß malziger, etwas muffiger Antrunk. Laff bitter, schokoladig alkoholisch, holzig, unrund. 7/7/6/6//6
Tried
on 26 Jun 2016
at 15:06
7.3/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle 500ml. [ As Retorto Malalingua ].Clear medium to dark amber color with a small, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, bread, caramel, dried fruit, alcohol. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet with a long duration, bread, alcohol, sweet malt. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat, finish feel is light alcoholic. [20160205]
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Mar 2016
at 16:36
7/10
Bardzo intensywnie, ciemnemne owoce, pozniej slody, fajne.
Tried
at
Heritage Birreria Artigianale
on 18 Feb 2016
at 22:03
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 7
Bottled at Birreria Heritage Artigianale, Warsaw, Poland. Clear mahogany colour, no head. Rich caramel aroma. Sweet with full body and soft mouthfeel. Vanilla, licorice, caramel and peat. Intensely warming with balanced bitterness. Harmonious and rich.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Feb 2016
at 13:28
8/10
Tried
on 05 Feb 2016
at 13:17
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
(Bottle)(with mabernac) hazy brown colour with a small beige head; aroma of stewed fruit, raisins; rich, balanced flavour with a very long, medium bitter flavour, well hidden alcohol
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Jun 2015
at 19:10
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Brown amber colour. Aroma of raisins, malts, red wine, sweet sticky dried fruits, brown sugar, old wooden casks, PX sherry and dates. Sweet flavour, malts, caramel, dates and raisins. Sweet finish, wood, dates. Interesting and nice!
(from 50cL-beautiful- bottle @ Leuven Innovation Beer Festival, Leuven 2015. Thanks for sharing, Seba!)
(from 50cL-beautiful- bottle @ Leuven Innovation Beer Festival, Leuven 2015. Thanks for sharing, Seba!)
Tried
from Cask
on 31 May 2015
at 04:52
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 9
Due to artificial coloured illumination, appearance not estimable, arbitrary 4/5 Old, old wine barriques, something forgotten in a bodega - ’vinous’ doesn’t come close. Sweet wine, wood, bit of chocolate, portwine or Malaga. Sample is a bit tired, quite slick, (yeast)laden. Since the sample isn’t 100% any longer, it makes the beer even more impressive. Grand merci à Sébastien!
Tried
on 25 May 2015
at 03:29