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Quarta Runa
Birrificio Montegioco
- From:
- Birrificio Montegioco
- Italy
- Style:
- Fruit and Field Beer
- ABV:
- 7%
- Score:
- 90
- Avg:
- 4.03 | pDev: 8.19%
- Reviews:
- 35
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Jun 14, 2021
- Added:
- Oct 11, 2006
- Wants:
- 15
- Gots:
- 4
Belgian-inspired ale brewed with fresh peaches.
"Produced with the addition, in fermentation, of Volpedo peaches. In the glass it has a deep, opalescent orange color. The nose is very intense, offers summer aromas of ripe peach, accompanied by floral notes of rose and a clear memory of bitter almond, peach stone. In the mouth it enters soft, with a medium-structured body and hints of fruit in syrup. It closes very clean, just lightened by a slight acidity; very long in the finish, where the characterization of the peach is undisputed, but where an unexpected and slight hopping also emerges. Refined, feminine, unique beer."
"Produced with the addition, in fermentation, of Volpedo peaches. In the glass it has a deep, opalescent orange color. The nose is very intense, offers summer aromas of ripe peach, accompanied by floral notes of rose and a clear memory of bitter almond, peach stone. In the mouth it enters soft, with a medium-structured body and hints of fruit in syrup. It closes very clean, just lightened by a slight acidity; very long in the finish, where the characterization of the peach is undisputed, but where an unexpected and slight hopping also emerges. Refined, feminine, unique beer."
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Reviewed by MonDak_Joe1953 from Minnesota
3.97/5 rDev -1.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.97/5 rDev -1.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
11.2oz bottle. Wrapped in paper bag that has label graphics. No dating found.
Cloudy, dark gold colored body with a hint of peach. Brief off white head, results in a partial cap. No lacing. Lots of bottom sediment.
Aroma is peach and funk. Belgian yeast esters, which are flowery and provide a hint of vanilla.
Taste is a little sour, but has the peach flavor plus yeast esters. Has some spice and vanilla. Dry finish.
Medium mouth feel. Good carbonation.
Similar to a wheat ale with peach fruit and yeast esters. This is a quiet beer with some breadth of aroma and flavors. Good warm weather beer.
Jun 14, 2021Cloudy, dark gold colored body with a hint of peach. Brief off white head, results in a partial cap. No lacing. Lots of bottom sediment.
Aroma is peach and funk. Belgian yeast esters, which are flowery and provide a hint of vanilla.
Taste is a little sour, but has the peach flavor plus yeast esters. Has some spice and vanilla. Dry finish.
Medium mouth feel. Good carbonation.
Similar to a wheat ale with peach fruit and yeast esters. This is a quiet beer with some breadth of aroma and flavors. Good warm weather beer.
Reviewed by Guaro from Italy
3.34/5 rDev -17.1%
look: 3 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
3.34/5 rDev -17.1%
look: 3 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
Opalescent gold with orange reflections, crisp, fine-grained white foam with little persistence. Pronounced scent of peaches and a hint of herbaceous hops in the rear. On the palate the peach pulp is felt with arrogance but its entrance is sweet and rounded. Subsequently light biscuit, floral and bitter almond notes. Slightly hopped aftertaste with herbaceous tones and an almost imperceptible acid. Quite dry finish. Carbonation is medium and fine. The drink is too lean and waterly and the peach dominates everything.
Aug 16, 2020Reviewed by DJ-Hophead from England
4/5 rDev -0.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4/5 rDev -0.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Tap @ Moor, Bristol - Pours cloudy golden with a medium white head. Medium carbonation. Nice lacing. Aroma - Fruity forefront - peach, light vanilla at the back, tart notes. Taste - Tart, fruity - peach, sweet notes. Very refreshing fruity wild ale.
Jul 01, 2017Rated by Beginner2 from Illinois
3.95/5 rDev -2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.95/5 rDev -2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Listed in the "1001", I don't think I'll have this again. It was not a good value and had some off-tastes.
Aug 16, 2016Reviewed by Slatetank from Pennsylvania
3.89/5 rDev -3.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.89/5 rDev -3.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
I tried this on tap at Hunger N Thirst serve in a small snifter.
The color is golden and cloudy with thick white head and rocky top. The smell has mild floral and slightly fruity esters with gentle malt in the aroma. The feel is tangy, fruity and subtle creamy yet lightly mineral in the finish with slight sour aspect with mostly dry finish -like mineral water essence with peach flesh in texture.
The taste is good with a slight fruity malty entry with a subtle sweet quality and slight floral hint in the middle with peach essence that is semi-tangy yet mildly creamy perhaps from the yeast with a gentle and semi-dry finish. Overall this is interesting but of the peach beers I tried recently this was the most mellow
Jun 01, 2016The color is golden and cloudy with thick white head and rocky top. The smell has mild floral and slightly fruity esters with gentle malt in the aroma. The feel is tangy, fruity and subtle creamy yet lightly mineral in the finish with slight sour aspect with mostly dry finish -like mineral water essence with peach flesh in texture.
The taste is good with a slight fruity malty entry with a subtle sweet quality and slight floral hint in the middle with peach essence that is semi-tangy yet mildly creamy perhaps from the yeast with a gentle and semi-dry finish. Overall this is interesting but of the peach beers I tried recently this was the most mellow
Reviewed by BEERchitect from Kentucky
4/5 rDev -0.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4/5 rDev -0.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Taking pride in their rustic brewing roots that are now more likely embodied in Belgian lowland ales, Italy shows off their barley and wheat-rich tradition with Quarta Runa- a yeast and wheat heavy taste with a delicate array of fruit and spice, but with a certain peach-flavored lead.
Hazy goldenrod and turbid like German wheat ale, the beer's racing carbonation plumps up a large, rocky pillow of froth. With an acidic fruit tinge to the nose, the scent of peach is front and center. With a bready-sweet character looming, its taste is doughy and succulent like cookie dough.
With the rich wheat and bread flavors holding stern, the natural fruit esters of apple, banana, papaya and pawpaw act cidery, vinous with white wine, and share a candied confectioner's whimsy. Balanced with freshly grated white pepper, clove, peppercorn, vanilla and almond, the counter to fruit is spicy. Peach dominance however reign supreme with the mustiness of over-ripe orchard fruit, damp burlap and a whimsy of sea air adding a deep and earthen tone to finish without souring.
Medium-full on the palate, the beer's soft bitter finish is lightly grassy as the beer once again links up with the fruit skin pectin character of peach for an astringency that's mostly reserved for fruit wine. Trailing with a big wheat, yeast, vegemite and angel-food creaminess, the ale rounds out on the palate like a bigger, more complex, fruit-infused hefeweizen
Apr 14, 2016Hazy goldenrod and turbid like German wheat ale, the beer's racing carbonation plumps up a large, rocky pillow of froth. With an acidic fruit tinge to the nose, the scent of peach is front and center. With a bready-sweet character looming, its taste is doughy and succulent like cookie dough.
With the rich wheat and bread flavors holding stern, the natural fruit esters of apple, banana, papaya and pawpaw act cidery, vinous with white wine, and share a candied confectioner's whimsy. Balanced with freshly grated white pepper, clove, peppercorn, vanilla and almond, the counter to fruit is spicy. Peach dominance however reign supreme with the mustiness of over-ripe orchard fruit, damp burlap and a whimsy of sea air adding a deep and earthen tone to finish without souring.
Medium-full on the palate, the beer's soft bitter finish is lightly grassy as the beer once again links up with the fruit skin pectin character of peach for an astringency that's mostly reserved for fruit wine. Trailing with a big wheat, yeast, vegemite and angel-food creaminess, the ale rounds out on the palate like a bigger, more complex, fruit-infused hefeweizen
Reviewed by vfgccp from New York
3.84/5 rDev -4.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.75
3.84/5 rDev -4.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.75
2013 bottle, opened Oct 2015
A - Nice deep golden wheat body with a finger f creamy white head. OK retention and lace.
S - Loaded with delicious yellow peaches, fresh cut grass, sweet melon, and bread crust.
T - Sweet and peachy. Grass, lemon, crisp apple, syrupy canned peaches, and dry earthy hops.
M - Medium body with low carbonation.
O - Fruity and sweet. Almost more fruit lambic-like than Belgian strong ale.
Oct 04, 2015A - Nice deep golden wheat body with a finger f creamy white head. OK retention and lace.
S - Loaded with delicious yellow peaches, fresh cut grass, sweet melon, and bread crust.
T - Sweet and peachy. Grass, lemon, crisp apple, syrupy canned peaches, and dry earthy hops.
M - Medium body with low carbonation.
O - Fruity and sweet. Almost more fruit lambic-like than Belgian strong ale.
Quarta Runa from Birrificio Montegioco
Beer rating:
90 out of
100 with
65 ratings
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