6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

3.9

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 4

6.3

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6

(Bottle) Golden amber colour with frothy, off-white head. Malty nose with crisp-bread, tropical fruit, orange and honey. Malty, sweetish taste with notes of crisp-bread, tropcial fruit, orange peel, honey and a mild herbal bitterness in the finish. More than medium body, with a certain sweetness. Fairly normal strong macro lager, but quite drinkable. Enjoyable.

7

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

It is a correct one, better than the strong ale. The color is brown and copper. The taste is malty, sweet, caramel, few hop, a bit metalic,.16.05.16, at Lausanne, Prélaz, buying it at the ipercoop, Crevoladossola.

6.3

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6

330m ml bottle. Pours a dark copper color with very little head. Aromas of dry apples, a bit of postage stamp, other nondescript fruit, and toasted malts. Flavors of dried apples, thin dry caramel, a bit of honey and toasted malts. Clean, but sweet of the style. Easy to drink

6.3

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 5.5

Standard pale lager from an old school Italian lager brewery founded by one Giuseppe Menabrea in 1846 in the Piemonte region, distributed internationally - but not in Belgium, as I have never encountered it here and sampled it from tap at a hotel in Scotland. Stable and frothy, membrane-lacing, snow white head slowly diminishing over a clear yellow golden robe with visible sparkling. Aroma of wet cereals, industrial white bread, grass, minerals, hints of raw potato, raw cauliflower even, damp cotton cloth, vague diluted tonic water. Crisp onset, neutral but feeling very pure and agreeably clean, like a babbling brook - an effect I can surely appreciate in a lager. Very strong carbonation adds to this overall crisp minerality, running through a smooth, slender, sweetish graininess, a tad white-bready even, acquiring a grassy, subtle yet clear and pure hop bitterness in its tail, balancing and even efficiently drying - at least to general macro pale lager standards. Simple by nature - the style intrinsically calls for that - but clean, pure and easygoing, topping the likes of Moretti and Peroni as far as I am concerned, even to the extent that in a blind tasting test, I may easily take it for a true German Pilsener. Efficient and above average for the style, in my opinion, pairing well with the haggis bon bons I had at the aforementioned hotel.

5.4

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 5

(tap 0,5l @ pool bar Hotel Santa Caterina (Scalea IT))
* Mediocre sweet beer. *
Clear amber color. Long lasting white head. Sweet, light caramel, light toasty, light wort. Light-medium body.