Birrificio San Michele Aida

Aida

 

Birrificio San Michele in Sant'Ambrogio di Torino (TO), Piedmont, Italy 🇮🇹

  Smoked / Rauchbier Regular
Score
5.77
ABV: 5.2% IBU: - Ticks: 12
A beechwood smoked beer, with a refreshing and delightful aftertaste obtained from smoking the malts over beechwood. The amber colour remembers the hot Ethiopian atmosphere where Verdi's opera is set.
 

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6.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle. Pours a hazy yellow color with a small white head. Has a fruity malty spicy smoky aroma. Fruity malty spicy smoky flavor. Has a fruity malty smoky caramel finish.

Tried from Bottle on 17 Jun 2017 at 04:09


5.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Bottled. A hazy golden beer with a beige head: The aroma has notes of straw and malt. The flavor is sweet with notes of straw and malt, leading to a dry finish.

Tried from Bottle on 17 Mar 2017 at 13:30


5.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Bottle@yesprs - Orange pour with white head. Sweet and smoked malty, slight meaty notes, some straw, some burnt meaty notes, smoked malty into the finish. --- Beer merged from original tick of Aida on 26 Mar 2025 at 06:29 - Score: 5. Original review text: March 17, 2017
Bottle@yesprs - Orange pour with white head. Sweet and smoked malty, slight meaty notes, some straw, some burnt meaty notes, smoked malty into the finish.

Tried from Bottle on 17 Mar 2017 at 12:54


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

33 cl bottle. Pours cloudy orange with a small whit head. Aroma is toasted malty and slight herbal to smoked. Smoked and lingering dark malty. Bitter, dark malty and slight herbal. Dry and smoked malty far finish.

Tried from Bottle on 17 Mar 2017 at 12:50


6.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Hazy bright amber colour, huge dense yellowish head; aroma of smoked cheese, some caramel, and smoked grains; taste is the same; a bit too intensive carbonation, otherwise correct and enjoyable smoked beer

Tried on 13 Mar 2017 at 17:15


4.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4

Bottle 330ml. @ [ (PBF XI) by oh6gdx - Petalax ]. [ As San Michele Aida ].Light unclear medium amber orange color with a large to huge, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, pale malt, herbs, light to moderate yeasty. Flavor is moderate sweet with a average duration, plastic - rubber, yeast, herbs. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20160708] 5-3-4-3-8

Tried from Bottle on 12 Dec 2016 at 04:40


4.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5

Bottle sample at a tasting at Ariel’s place. Thanks Max & Stas. Cloudy yellow with a white head. Aroma is sourish, smoky, with burnt rubber, olives, some fruits. Sweetish and tart flavor with smokiness, fruits. Medium-bodied.

Tried from Bottle on 26 Jul 2016 at 06:08


4.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4

Bottled@PBF XI. Hazy orange colour, small white head. Aroma is toffee, mild sourness, rubber, smoked wood and some earthy notes. Flavour is toffee, mild smoked notes as well as diacetyl and some metallic notes.

Tried from Bottle on 22 Jul 2016 at 00:04


3.9
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3.5

33cl bottle @PBF XI. Poured amber color with a thin white head. Campfire smoke, rubber in aroma. Flavor has buttery smoke notes. Ugly.

Tried from Bottle on 08 Jul 2016 at 19:26


5.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bottle, 5.2%. Clear amber with small off-white head. Aroma is malt, caramel, smoke and a little meat. Flavour is malt, caramel, toasted, smoke, meat, medium sweet, hop and a little bitter.

Tried from Bottle on 01 Apr 2016 at 10:27