Menabrea 150° Bionda Premium Lager
Birra Menabrea SpA
- From:
- Birra Menabrea SpA
- Italy
- Style:
- American Adjunct Lager
Ranked #265 - ABV:
- 4.8%
- Score:
- 74
Ranked #253,407 - Avg:
- 3.13 | pDev: 16.29%
- Reviews:
- 49
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Feb 18, 2025
- Added:
- Oct 09, 2003
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 20
SCORE
74
Okay
74
Okay
Formerly Menabrea 150° Anniversario Lager
Menabrea Bionda Lager is a classic lager beer produced using Menabrea’s own yeast, which has a bottom-fermenting tendency. Menabrea uses pure mountain water sourced high in the Alps, close to Biella. The water combines with selected barley malt and maize (corn) before adding Hallertau Magnum hops.
The addition of maize gives a lightness to the beer both in terms of color and taste and also adds a hint of sweetness, which balances the bitterness from the Hallertau hops. The combination of these ingredients brewed by the master brewer to a recipe basically unchanged since 1846 gives a beer with balanced bitterness, a floral fruity nose and a delicate pale-golden color.
This lager, like all of the Menabrea beers is matured peacefully in their underground cellars for 6 weeks. This beer has been matured in the brewery’s deep, cold cellars the same way for over 170 years.
Menabrea Bionda Lager is a classic lager beer produced using Menabrea’s own yeast, which has a bottom-fermenting tendency. Menabrea uses pure mountain water sourced high in the Alps, close to Biella. The water combines with selected barley malt and maize (corn) before adding Hallertau Magnum hops.
The addition of maize gives a lightness to the beer both in terms of color and taste and also adds a hint of sweetness, which balances the bitterness from the Hallertau hops. The combination of these ingredients brewed by the master brewer to a recipe basically unchanged since 1846 gives a beer with balanced bitterness, a floral fruity nose and a delicate pale-golden color.
This lager, like all of the Menabrea beers is matured peacefully in their underground cellars for 6 weeks. This beer has been matured in the brewery’s deep, cold cellars the same way for over 170 years.
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Reviewed by Badonde from England
3.68/5 rDev +17.6%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.68/5 rDev +17.6%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Pours from the 660ml bottle a beautifully clear gold with a soap-white head, very fizzy. Slightly skunky on the nose, then classic dry lager on the tongue. Ends sticky, wheaty and sweet.
Oct 14, 2024
Reviewed by stevoj from Idaho
2.83/5 rDev -9.6%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2.75
2.83/5 rDev -9.6%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2.75
330ml bottle from Boise Co-op. Clear golden pour, with a thin, white foamy cap. Light grainy aroma, citrus, wet paper. Taste is sweet, grainy, corn, vegetal, cardboard.
Oct 05, 2024
Reviewed by Efraim_Barkbit from Sweden
3.8/5 rDev +21.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
3.8/5 rDev +21.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
On tap in a tall, narrow goblet with the logo on. White mould cheese on the nose. Light elegant body. Very wet mouthfeel. Limestone, mountainside plains. Green and red apples, well rounded but a bit coarse and one dimentional taste. Raspberry jam. Subtle all the way through.
Sep 28, 2024
Reviewed by MattDecker from Texas
3.18/5 rDev +1.6%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
3.18/5 rDev +1.6%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
Taste: lemon citrus/zest, grassy hop, hop bitterness,
Feel: light-light medium body, crisp
Overall: a bit more going on here than most Italian beers I've had. Nothing amazing, but better than most
Jun 14, 2024Feel: light-light medium body, crisp
Overall: a bit more going on here than most Italian beers I've had. Nothing amazing, but better than most
Reviewed by Alexc11 from Canada (QC)
3.65/5 rDev +16.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.65/5 rDev +16.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
Pour pale, fizzy and clear gold color. Good head little retention and lacing. There's a sweet hint of corn in the aroma with some malt. Taste of grains and light caramel even Medium carbonation and bitterness with a good mouthfeel. This beer is what it is as an American lager. I don't want to say it's simple because it isn't there's some funkiness going on here. Good tasting. Pairs great with pizza.
Mar 12, 2024
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