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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7/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7
Good yellow-amber head; hazy orange-amber beer. Grapey, crude grape brandywine; oxydized malts. BItter, liqueurish taste, like a Cynar or something similar; with an enormous sweet malty underbuild, including coloured malts. Very alcoholic, alcoholwarming. Difficulty accessible beer, but it grows on you.
Tried on 01 Oct 2007 at 01:52

7.8/10 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.
Tried from Bottle on 01 Oct 2007 at 01:46

6.8/10 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.
Tried on 30 Sep 2007 at 13:34

6.4/10 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
Tried from Bottle on 09 Sep 2007 at 22:00

6.1/10 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.
Tried from Bottle on 03 Sep 2007 at 14:46

5.5/10 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
Tried on 22 Aug 2007 at 17:19

6.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 7
Small offwhite head. Hazy orange-brown body. Acidic barn aroma with grassy hop notes and a firm maltiness. Dry-and-sweet malty taste with grassy toffee notes. Dry grainy grassy aftertaste. Very nice. Mild, drinkable session beer, except it’ll be a short session. (0.75l bottle at glouglouburp’s.)
Tried from Bottle on 09 Aug 2007 at 03:39

7.9/10 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.
Tried on 07 Aug 2007 at 06:58

6/10 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.
Tried on 07 Aug 2007 at 06:57

6.2/10 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.
Tried from Bottle on 28 Jul 2007 at 01:47