Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Brighella from Birrificio Lambrate 19 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
1 yr. old Bottle Dark orange-amber, hazy; medium off-white head, leaving lace. Phenols, sweet fruits and oxydized malts. Drier, still quite fruity estery in the taste, alcohol fixed, and a bit of sweetened orange peel. Medium bodied, way more alcoholic than the 7.5% announced. Fruity brew, but off-putting nose (not everybody agrees). Alcohol is very apparent.
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Sant'Ambroeus from Birrificio Lambrate 19 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Draught Good dense head, yellowish coloured; pale orange beer. Nose of wet dog, old Wallonian houses’ aroma (sorry) but then I get some hops and sweet aniseed grains. Taste is rosewater, sweet almonds and some light malts, leaving a lot of restsweetness, ending spot-on with quinces’ jelly. Very slick, sugar-filled. Aftertaste gets some peppery, lingering flavour. It’s sweet, but not cloying. The sweetness is intentional, and it is nowhere boring.
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Lambrate from Birrificio Lambrate 19 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Draught Light amber-pink colour; absolutely huge head, very straight (?); clear amber-red beer. Colour malts, parsley, roasted; quite malty and a strong cheesy aroma, like a young, hard Dutch cheese. More toasted malts in the taste, bit of caramel. There is a slight dryish-hops related taste on the back of the tongue, which helps to balance. If I found Dutch cheese in the nose, here it’s rather stewed mushrooms. Medium bodied, quite slick. Not very bursting with character, but OTOH, it has a quite good balance. Given now for 6.8% ABV only.
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Porpora from Birrificio Lambrate 19 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Draught Huge topped-up, brownish head, over dark chestnut beer with, indeed, a purple shine. Lots of caramel, toffee, liqueurish, sweet bread, like a Bock. Warming up, I get more dark candi sugar. First dry taste, leafy, then sweet-bready, going over again to dry, rather toasted taste. Caramel seeps in, making up for a very malty beer indeed. A bit of Valerian retronasal. Gives a probably exaggerated full bodied impression, slick, viscous nearly, but in fact, the beer is a bit thin, really. Good amber ale, for lovers of a good malt dose.
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Montestella from Birrificio Lambrate 19 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Draught Thick, voloptuous head, slightly yellowish, leaving some lace over near-clear orange-golden beer. Nice hoppy nose, as with fresh UK hops. A bit toaste, dry aroma of excellent malts. Very British. Nice, dry hoppy taste, really very good. Ends lightly sweetish with a light corn flakes flavour. Very refreshing, just a bit burning sensation. There’s a retronasal flavour/aroma that reminds me of Belgian yellow asparagus tips. Light to medium body. Excellent beer, more than worth going out of one’s way for.
Anders37 (30296) reviewed Ghisa from Birrificio Lambrate 19 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle. Black colour with a small tan head. Sweet malty aroma with some hints of smoke and licorice. Sweet malty flavor with some smoky hints and hints of licorice. Malty finish with some hints of chocolate.
Svesse (15730) reviewed Ghisa from Birrificio Lambrate 19 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
(Bottle at GBBF, London, 4 Aug) Colour is pitch black with a huge, explosive, but quickly disappearing, brown head. Nose is roasted and smokey with notes of tar and black coffee. Taste is roasted and tarry with black coffee and liquorice. Modest bitterness in the finish. Rather thin body but nice taste.
Harrisoni (26233) reviewed Ghisa from Birrificio Lambrate 19 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle at GBBF 2006. Black beer with thick dark beige head. Smokey charcoal aroma with some dark malts. Lacks a certain depth. Smokiness is nice. Charcoal finish, with a certain dryness. Good effort.
fiulijn (28382) reviewed Brighella from Birrificio Lambrate 20 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Christmas bottle
Nice hazy amber color; the head is persistent. The aroma is light, malty, some sweetnees and some hops, light fruitness and light yeast. The flavor is not very complex, but harmonious, well malty and quite sweet, without being cloying nor thick, just corrected by the spices; the bitterness is quite low, maybe showing more at the very end. Very pleasant.
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Ghisa from Birrificio Lambrate 21 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
(I tasted Ghisa on draught two years ago on GBBF - now the bottle) Dark brown, nearly black; very dark brown-purple head, huge & tenacious. Undoubtedly smoked nose, tobacco, smoked wood, malt, lavender. Again smoked, taste, lots of tobacco & cigar ash. Slight acidity, malt is there, but not overmuch. Problem is that apart from the smokey flavour, not much else is going on. Not supported as the Bamberger Rauchbiere. Warming up some chocolate notes. Reasonably full bodied, warming. Well, it's definitely not Bamberger. Still, I like the style well enough. "Ghisa" is Milanese slang for a traffic policeman. They are daily smoked meat too, it seems.