Demon Hunter
Birrificio Montegioco in Montegioco (AL), Piedmont, Italy 🇮🇹
Belgian Style - Strong Ale Regular|
Score
6.66
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5
Pours a pretty clear intense red, with a greyish small head that shows good enough retention and not much lacing. Nice but not very intense aroma with a bit of warming feel: caramel, a bit of honey and red fruitiness, plus perhaps a slight chestnut note. Taste is medium to high in sweetness and medium bitter with an overall sweetish edge in both taste and aftertaste. Still very nicely balanced. Sadly, as for the aroma, the taste notes were not very intense or defined. Caramel and slight honey malts, red fruitiness, a background earthy/bitter edge to bring balance. Light warming/alcohol feel throughout. Medium to dense in body with low to medium carbonation, resulting in a semi-full mouthfeel. The beer was overall enjoyable and interesting enough but it felt kind of muted down. Possibly a not too lucky bottle.
CraftBeerNick (11005) reviewed Demon Hunter from Birrificio Montegioco 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle at home, 12th May 17. Pours a dark amber, hazy. Aroma is typical Belgian Strong, sweet notes, dark fruit, a little yeast and caramel. Taste is rich, sweet, but not overlly, caramel, slight bitter. Pretty good.
Kyotolefty (15912) reviewed Demon Hunter from Birrificio Montegioco 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
33 cl bottle from Tanakaya. 9.1%. Vinous nose, chestnuts, chocolate, caramel, honey, apricots/plums, and grapes. Very complex, with the Belgian yeast pulling it together nicely. Lovely, shiny reddish brown with a full, rocky head. Richly malty and very fruity. Not overly sweet, dry, with a very bitter finish. Raisins, chestnuts, plums, light orange. Excellent stuff. Very rich and yet very fruity and not cloying at all. Up there with the best Belgian-made beers of this strength. Full, smooth body.
TDA (6957) reviewed Demon Hunter from Birrificio Montegioco 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3.5
At a tasting, small bubbly head, cloudy rusty orange to very light brown color, honey and wax aroma with some candy in the back, flavor of manure and a strange spiciness with some dried fruits in the back as the beers warms up, very sweet and alcoholic. Over the top, almost undrinkable.
DSG (25977) reviewed Demon Hunter from Birrificio Montegioco 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 3.5
Bottle sample at a tasting at tomer’s place. Thanks kerenmk. Hazy orange. Aroma of cardboard, fruitiness, a bit of honey. Sweet flavor with honey, cardboard, fruitiness, and a bit of alcohol in a bitterish finish. Medium-bodied.
Mansquito (19100) reviewed Demon Hunter from Birrificio Montegioco 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Owl Farm, Brooklyn tap: Pours orange with a white head. Aroma is dark fruit, earthiness, a little bit of alcohol, and some yeast. Taste is a little bit sweet. Plenty of fruitiness and earthiness. It is more subdued than one might have expected. That said it was good.
panzerxiii (3989) ticked Demon Hunter from Birrificio Montegioco 10 years ago
Bitterbill (4330) reviewed Demon Hunter from Birrificio Montegioco 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
A loud pop when I popped the cap, which has a curious plastic cylinder thingy attached to it. Hazy copper coloured with plenty of sediment floating around.
The smell is big on toasted malt with side notes of Belgian yeast and some conglomerate of spices.
The taste is spicy, again, not easy to distinguish which, with toasted malt, Belgian yeast...maybe that spice is or at least reminds me of rye. No mention of rye in the beer’s description but that won’t stop me from mentioning it. This also has a dankness and earthiness to it. And the finish? I get light fruity tones that make it on the dry side.
Okay, this beer really has me befuddled; I’m now getting hints of horse blanket as it warms up and you probably know what that would suggest. Overall, I’d say smell wins over taste.
This is weird and I will just have to let the cards fall where they may. If you see bottles of it, give it a go.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
On tap at the King Arthur pub in Rome-Italy. Pours a great hazy amber/copper colour, off white head which leaves lacing and drafts. Nose: dry fruit, hint of caramel, fresh candy sugar. Mouth: medium carbonation, round sweetness, molasses. Very balanced and refreshing. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone
bb (18428) reviewed Demon Hunter from Birrificio Montegioco 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle. Caramel colored beer with a dark cream head. Malt and dried fruit aroma with a little backing sugar. Caramel and dried fruit flavor with light honey and light herbal notes. Medium bodied. Dried fruit and light herbal notes linger with rich malt and alcohol.