Birrificio Montegioco

Microbrewery in Montegioco (AL), Piedmont, Italy 🇮🇹

Established in 2006

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Frazione Fabbrica, 1, Montegioco (AL), 15050, Italy
Description
Il Birrificio Montegioco prende il nome dall’omonimo paese della Val Grue, a pochi chilometri da Tortona, antica terra di confine tra Piemonte, Liguria, Lombardia ed Emilia Romagna. L’avventura comincia nella primavera del 2005 quando un vecchio magazzino viene trasformato in un moderno microbirrificio.
Riccardo Franzosi è l’artefice di tutto questo, la passione per la birra lo ha spinto a iniziare come homebrewer per puro piacere personale ed ha successivamente scelto di trasformare questa passione in un vero e proprio lavoro.

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7.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 8.5
Bottle premiered for start of football season hoping to make rating 2800 but I fucked up and it’s 2801. 2011 vintage Pours flat orange yellow with tart nose of lemons and wood. Tastes of lemons, pears, apple skin, wooden barrel, barnyard, some candy sugar. Tart palate. Enjoyable thanks again Alberto.
Tried from Bottle on 10 Sep 2015 at 21:47

6.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
big thick malty nose. Fairly sweet, but a bit simple without much depth. Ok lingering red wine character in the finish.
Tried on 08 Sep 2015 at 00:50

6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Bottled (backlog). Murky brown colour, small off-white head. Aroma is berries, alcohol, sweet malts, some fruity and nutty notes as well. Flavour is sweet alcohol along with some berries, toffee, mild yeast and some fruity notes as well. Quite boozy, but otherwise the elements are quite right.
Tried from Bottle on 31 Aug 2015 at 06:47

4.1/10 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.
Tried from Can on 31 Aug 2015 at 05:45

4.4/10 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.
Tried from Bottle on 28 Aug 2015 at 14:40

7.3/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 8
Pours dark brown, almost looking like a stout. Aroma reveals somewhat sweet and sticky nature of the beer, definitely great for desserts. Taste is sweet, has some dark fruits, soaked in liquor. Overall, definitely a top notch beer, just being overshadowed a bit by some others I had during this evening.
Tried on 22 Aug 2015 at 21:40

8/10
Tried on 29 Jul 2015 at 07:21

6.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 9 Flavor 9 Texture 8 Overall 1.5
Shared with and from Travlr it is a cherry red color with no head. The aroma is hard to discern rather weak. The taste is a thin kind of bitter flavor that is hard to tell what it is exactly
Tried on 18 Jul 2015 at 23:13

5.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 5 Flavor 4 Texture 6 Overall 4.5
From a bottle shared by Travlr. Thanks! Pours a clear rose with an off white head. Aroma of pasta sauce. Flavors of garlic. Oof.
Tried from Bottle on 18 Jul 2015 at 23:04

6.9/10 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.
Tried from Draft on 24 Jun 2015 at 21:44