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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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8/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 9 Texture 8 Overall 8
Hazy brown amber body with a small tan head. Sweet caramel aroma. Sweet honey flavor with some light caramel, there’s a hint of blueberries, but its so light that it’s barely noticable.
Tried on 25 Dec 2006 at 08:20

6.6/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Pours cloudy amber with a small head. Aroma is present, slightly tart fruit, slighty sweet. Taste has a slight hop bite character, a malty, biscuity flavor. But mainly nothin disinctive anywhere in this beer. Its just kind of there. Slightly tangy aftertaste. Really forgettable if it wasnt for the price tag and the cool bottle wrapper.
Tried from Bottle on 16 Dec 2006 at 16:40

7/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7
Small, fast gone creamy-yellowish head over fully hazy red-brown beer. Very slightly sourish, caramel, wood and brown sugar syrup; ending faintly glue-y. Dark, bitterish and woody malts, on a rather sweet, full-rounded basic taste. Fruity character without really fruity flavours. Fleeting impression of chocolate. Ending is again more glue/ketonish, but not disturbingly so. Quite full MF, very well bodied, slick to oily texture. Alcoholwarming in a nice way, bit like after swallowing malt whisky. Reasonably complex beer, filling. No trace of blueberries, just a fruity impression.
Tried on 24 Nov 2006 at 13:53