Birra Flea

Microbrewery in Gualdo Tadino (PG), Umbria, Italy 🇮🇹

Established in 2013

Contact
Via Fratelli Cairoli, Zona Industriale Sud, Gualdo Tadino (PG), 06023, Italy
Description
Matteo & Cristina Minelli founded Birra Flea in 2013, with the dream of showing their love for the town of Gualdo Tadino and combining the best traditions with an innovative approach. They decided to create a product with a very strong local identity: a beer containing the best fruits of their hometown. The output is 55.000 hectoliters of Italian craft beer per year!

Birra Flea is produced from the well-known waters of Gualdo Tadino and the best malts - 100% Italian barley - produced and selected from the Minelli's farm. Birra Flea is produced with only wheat and barley malts - no other unmalted grains - and is both unfiltered and unpasteurized. It is refermented in the bottle in order to preserve its organoleptic properties, without the addition of preservatives and chemical additives.

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6.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
750ml bottle. Dark orange, cloudy, with lace. Estery nose, biscuits, honey, oranges, peach, banana. Sweet and estery flavor, honey and biscuits, spicy yeast, a bit of tart fruit, and raisins. Very yeasty and a bit phenolic.
Tried from Bottle on 18 Mar 2015 at 20:05

5.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 6 Texture 4 Overall 6
750ml bottle. Pale pastel yellow color. Smells a bit infected, lemon, honey, grains, lots of minerals. Sweet and a bit cloying with Belgian yeast esters. Oily body. I find the yeastiness annoying. Not much happening here, and the mineral character reminds me of infection.
Tried from Bottle on 18 Mar 2015 at 20:03

6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
750ml bottle. Nose of peaches, melon, orange, grapefruit. Strangely creamy. Orange-gold color, cloudy, with a low head. Sweet and creamy flavor, tropical fruits and candy. Nice prickly, bitter finish, though a bit too sweet and that in a slightly fake way. Soft and smooth body, though somewhat thick. This is uniquely hopped and quite interesting. Very untypical ipa, and needs fine tuning but worth a try.
Tried from Bottle on 18 Mar 2015 at 20:02

6.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
on tap oro spezia agrumata lieve nota fruttata discreta beva poco corpo rinfrescante
Tried from Draft on 26 Feb 2015 at 18:09

4.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 4 Flavor 4 Texture 4 Overall 5
on tap oro buona schiuma cavolo erbacea discreto amaro diversi difetti cereale astringenze
Tried from Draft on 26 Feb 2015 at 18:07

6.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Ambrata velata buona schiuma piuttosto persistente buona nota maltata lievi tostature nota di caramelo lieve nota erbacea amaro medio non molto secca discreto corpo
Tried on 24 Dec 2014 at 12:01

5.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 6
Ambrara buona schiuma discreta persistenza discreta luppolatura non freschissima amaro medio buon corpo ipa??
Tried on 26 Aug 2014 at 04:34

6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Bottled. Yellowish golden colour with a mediumsized white head. Aroma is herbal, some yeast, mild spices, mild fruity and some sour wooden notes. Flavour is fruity, spicy, some mild wooden and earthy,
Tried from Bottle on 01 Aug 2014 at 11:04

5.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 5 Texture 4 Overall 5
at a tasting, thanks Ariel, almost no head, murky orange colour,aroma of fruit and hay which is a bit stale with a touch of fruit frops, malty hay flavour with a light and a bit coarse bitterness. Not too good.
Tried on 29 Apr 2014 at 21:58

5.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 4 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
Bottle sample at a tasting at Beer Market Jaffa. Thanks Ariel. Cloudy orange. Aroma of yeast, stale skunky hops, a buttery hint and some fruitiness. Sweetish flavor with malt, yeast, some fruitiness, some stale hops and a bitter finish. Medium-bodied.
Tried from Bottle on 27 Apr 2014 at 05:36