CloakedDagger (37227) reviewed Top Restaurant 75 Bock from Menabrea 13 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle 75 cl. Courtesy of fonefan. Pours a clear amber with an off-white head. Sweet burned caramel in the nose - very clean. Medium body, sweet caramel and subtle caramel, a little metal and sulphur before a dry and hoppy finish. Gets quite boozy late. Drinkable. 290512
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
Nov 2010: Found this in Cork, Ireland, wish I hadn’t. Green 330ml bottle, impressive looking label and packaging, pity about the bottle contents. The beer was poured into a tumbler and was very, very pale indeed, weak urine yellow with a slight green hue to it. The head however looked lovely for a short while, huge bloom of white bubbles were produced, but they faded quickly to just a collar and wisp. The smell was of corn and maybe some citrusy lemon hints, but very little of anything. I don’t recall any taste and my notes say ’no taste’, it was watery, weak and had nothing going for it bar the initial head display. A typical Italian/Mediterranean light lager, OK for hot sunny days by the beach maybe, but not the beer to have on a cold wet and windy evening in Ireland.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
Originally rated July 2004. This Italian lager poured a pale yellow colour with a short lived foamy head. Some lacing occured. Lightly carbonated, I could smell grainy aromas. Grassy hops for taste and a thin mouthfeel. The better Italian beer I have tried so far (but that does not mean much).
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Christmas Beer from Menabrea 13 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Good, dirty-amber head over clear foxy-amber beer. Rusty nose, slightly toasted malts, corn flakes, bit of indifferent UK hops. Sweet-sticky, with a strange, unrefined bitterish syrupflavour as a finish. Sticky, filmy MF, medium bodied. Something to celebrate a very sad Christmas with... Thanks for the effort, Davide!
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Yellow with a small white head. Weak grainy aroma with a bit of cardboard, and a fruity/grassy note. Sweetish grainy flavour with a firm hoppy bitterness.
cheap (9533) reviewed Original from Menabrea 14 years ago
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4
Mine does not say original, it says italia birra. Drank directly from a bottle and it looks like pale lager. Weird processed aroma. Sweeter, old lager feel with some interesting background, if I put it in a nice way. Pretty good sizzle. A little cagey at times, you know like wew. Its OK for 4.5% but it is a little rude for a pale lager. If alky content was any more, it may induce a gag reflex. It must be a little old, thats all I can figure. Not as good as some other pale lager italy beers I’ve had. Hey, I’m a pale lager liker and this is a little below average, I guess I would feel differently if it was fresh.
Camons (21577) reviewed Strong Ale from Menabrea 14 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
Bottle @ Home. Pours brown with a white head. Aroma of malt, caramel,grassy hops. Taste is malt, caramel, grassy hops, boozy. Medium body, soft carbonation. 300112
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
33cl Bottle at Restaurant Bella Storia. Clear golden colour, white head. Aroma is sweet, light malty, honey, corn, light hops. Flavour is sweet, malty, light grainy, light flowery, honey, light bitter hoppy finish. Light bodied. Not bad.
JaKeAFC (2242) reviewed La 150° Ambrata from Menabrea 14 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
33cl bottle. Clear amber with a fine but short lived reddish head. Roasted malts on the nose. Light toasted malts with some caramel and undefined fruity tones. Overall sweetish with a little grassy hops in the finish. Smooth, soft carbonation, light bodied and easy to drink. Not an high end product, OK in it’s range.
fonefan (84534) reviewed Top Restaurant 3.5 Light from Menabrea 14 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Bottle 750ml.Clear light yellow colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, white head. Aroma is moderate malty, grain, hay - grass, cereal, cardboard. Flavour is moderate to light light heavy sweet and light to moderate bitter with a average to long duration, acrid malt bitter, cereal. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20111125]