Sloefmans (15519) reviewed Bran from Birrificio Montegioco 18 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Yellow-brown head, black beer. Extremely liqueurish beer, vinous, liquorice. Alcohol, fusels; sweet like a sweet brandy-based liqueur. Dark fruit (prunes), dried and flambéed. Absolutely fiery MF. Alcoholwarming². Superb, but difficult beer; maybe a tad too sweet, but all the same impressive. I got a slightly different, experimental version, characterized by the smaller bottle with white plastic cap.
Sloefmans (15519) reviewed Bastarnà from Birrificio Montegioco 18 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Medium beige head over black-looking beer with red-amber highlights. Smoked, ashes as from a BBQ-grill, but all the malts seem disappeared. Smoked, tobacco, a pinch of hops and chocolater; lactic acid in the finish. Burning MF - not too much - well-bodied and slick. Extraordinary (not even counting the label) but not really great. The wrapping paper is an absolute hoot - worth an extra point.
Koelschtrinker (42759) reviewed Draco from Birrificio Montegioco 18 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Getestet beimn LCRBM Leicht malzig, man merkt, dass da noch etwas kommen wird. Der Alkohol verbindet sich mit einer fruchtigen Note, trotz des starken Alkoholaromas ausbalanciert. Lecker! Test vom 10.9.2007, Gebinde: Glasflasche Noten: 6,10,11,12,-,11 - 10,47
patrick767 (7172) reviewed Draco from Birrificio Montegioco 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
bottle shared by thedm and hotstuff - This beer comes with really cool packaging. I’ve got to love the paper wrapping with the dragon theme. It pours murky light brown with a thin head. The aroma is yeast and malt with little if any blueberry noticeable. The flavor is mostly caramel malt and yeast with some dark fruit notes, but nothing I could pinpoint as blueberries. It tastes more like the typical fruit notes one might get from the yeast. Pretty average.
daniele (14510) reviewed Bran from Birrificio Montegioco 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
scura non molta schiuma poco persistente profumi di tostato in bocca decisamente tostata amara alcolica
fiulijn (28383) reviewed Draco from Birrificio Montegioco 18 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
2008-05-30, blind tasting at Yespr’s, 5-2-6-3-12=28
Cloudy brownish color with floating particles, not nice to see. There is some malt and sweet caramel here, a very light fruitiness across it, a strange yeast but leaving positive traces. Quite strange but not bad.
2007-07-22, draught at Bi-Du Beer Fest, 7-5-8-4-15=39
Triple fermentation, one with blueberry syrup.
Cloudy dark amber color, with a purple shade. The aroma is not too strong, with some malt, caramel and yeast fruitness, but also some alcohol and light phenol. Full bodied, quite malty, well balanced between sweetness and bitterness, with a touch of fruit sourness, maybe from the blueberries.
For me, too much strong/alcoholic, but anyway it’s a good Strong Belgian Ale, with some complexity.
fiulijn (28383) reviewed Quarta Runa from Birrificio Montegioco 18 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
2008-05-30, blind tasting at Yespr’s, 6-2-4-2-10=24
Cloudy blond color. Strong aroma of yellow fruits, mango peach and plums; vanilla perfume. Slim body, soapy flavor. The final is not very interesting.
20087-07-22, draught at Bi-Du Beer Fest, 7.5% ABV, 7-4-5-2-12=30
With Volpedo peach.
Cloudy blond color. Fruity aroma: dry apricots and medlar (nespole). Soft mouthfeel, some sweetness, but without any special flavor; too ordinary.
Oakes (33770) reviewed Demon Hunter from Birrificio Montegioco 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle, private tasting
Cloudy amber...more murky than cloudy actually. Yeasty, tart aroma with notes of raisin and chocolate. Quite yeasty on the palate as well, in that "bottle conditioned beer that’s still going" sort of way. Hints of red currants, vague toast and breadyness. A little fizzy...there’s that overactive bottle ferment again. Finishes slightly tart with a vague fruitiness. The tartness in the nose that I thought held promise I guess was unintentional. Hmm, that was the best part.
JK (8171) reviewed Draco from Birrificio Montegioco 18 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
An interesting fusion style with the blueberry. Thick and very heavy. The aroma has blueberry and some balsamic vinegar. Flavor has caramel, sugar, berry, and yeast.
cagarvie (40235) reviewed Demon Hunter from Birrificio Montegioco 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Clowdy ruby colour, rich malty lots of fizz, with mayple syrup and toffee malt tones.