27/07 A 0.75 fliptop bottle, as Cotta 42. It poured hazy brown body with medium sized head. Very fine lightly sweet caramel, chocolate and some dark fruits. Flavor was also a bit on the sweet side, dark chocolate, caramel, coffee and dogfood (which might be these lentils) . Medium bodied, even fuller with quite fine, long dark malt, pleasantly toasted (with some roasted characters) finish. Really good, but 7 euros for a bottle retail, well...

27/07 A 0.75 fliptop bottle, as Cotta 28. It poured hazy honey-amber body with medium sized white head. Honey and propolis in aroma, sweet, but fine. Touched with yeast. Flavor was interestingly bitter, herbal and alcoholic, some weaker sweet toffee and caramel malts, medium in body, rough and tingling on palate. Slightly sweet finish though, caramel and citrus are dominating here. A fine beer, feels more than 5.5% like all of these obviously.

26/07 0.75 l fliptop bottle, as Cotta 19. It poured hazy golden body with a big head that soon goes flat. Fine citrus and sweet fruity malt aroma. Nose included Belgian style yeast and some vanilla that usually goes with it. Slightly sweet, pleasant flavor, peach, vanilla, toast, yeast chalk and yoghurt notes, then candies with crown of herbal and citrus bitterness. Medium body, as much as it could be for only 5%, even slightly alcoholic towards the end which makes me curious did it ferment to a bit more. Moderately sweet finish. A fine Italian micro, overpriced as most of them, but at least didn’t fail.

Another one thanks to heavy and his parents! MBU Cotta 42. Poured a murky brown cola body with a small off white head. Malty, slightly roasty coffee/carael sweetish aroma. Ok soft slightyl roasty, slightly creamy nice maly taste, vague fruitiness and yeah, vague lentils, which I might not have noted if I hadn’t read teh label but hey! They were there! Mild carbonation bite. Yeah, tasty.

As MBU Cotta 28... these are apparently special versions. In any case they are both brewed with grass peas. Which are used as cattle feed and are poisonous if you consume a lot of them over a longer period of time. Great. Still, that’s definitely a first. I think. This poured a murky amber body with a lasting slightly off white head. The aroma was simple but nice, honey, some chalkiness, yeastiness, sweet overall. Simple sweet taste, honey, light bitterness, veeery light herbal noes. Just a weak touch of plastic which might be from the yeastiness. As I noted, tasty, simple, likely overpriced.

As Mastri Birrai Cotta 19. Huge thanks to heavy and especially his parents who brought the 3-pack to us... Man, 20 Euros for 3 0.5l (fancy & swingtop but still 0.5l) bottles. Does it shoot lightning out of its arse? Let’s see. Started off as an enormous gusher that just wouldn’t stop. A bottle that wasn’t shaken at all, but hey, it’s refermented in the bottle & stuff so it’s kinda understandable. Kinda. We did lose a lot of the already "small" package. Yay. The head was, you guessed it, enormous, but the body revealed underneath was a nice, murky gold. The aroma was thankfully inviting. And it had better been. Malt, light dust, sweet candyish notes, light herbal, nice yeastiness, honey. Mmmm. The taste, however, was quite lean. I felt that it was too lean even for 5%, heavy didn’t but never mind. In any case, the herbal notes were nice, slightly tangy, mildly juicy with light notes of apricot. Thin yet juicy, hmm. Light bitterness in the finish, somewhat creamy, light carbonation bite (as expected) though the mouthfeel is otherwise quite soft. An overpriced gusher that’s also a bit thin, but I thought the aromatics were nice, so I can’t hate it...

Hazy dark orange color, with huge head. Strong caramel taste with some honey notes and herbal feel. Light body with medium carbonation. Very pleasant beer.

It’s creamy, good balanced with some caramel and coffee taste. Medium carbonaion. Really nice beer, but little expensive.

37,5cl bottle at Scout Club Irish Pub, Samobor. Pours hazy brown with an off-white head. Very malty aroma with caramel and bready and hoppy notes. Sweet and malty with a light bitterness in the finish. Medium body with average carbonation. (2013-05-19)