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

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.

(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.

Magus, mõru, karamelline, linnaseline, humalane, kerge papp on taustal. Okish.

10/VII/25 - 33cl bottle, shared @ Taverna del Falconiere (Castell’Arquato, IT), BB: VI/2026, L25084B 04 (2025-662)

Clear pale gold beer, big creamy white to off-white head, pretty stable, adhesive, leaving some lacing in the glass. Aroma: very malty, a bit metallic, hay, cow fodder, grains. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: very malty start, some cardboard, hay, a bit sweet, slightly bitter, a bit oxidized. Aftertaste: soft acidity, cardboard, hay, cow fodder, very boring plain lager, ok but nothing more.

Bottled. Grass & grain, a tolerable pale lager better than most you’ll find from these parts.