Abruxensis 2020 - Mandarini
Microbirrificio Opperbacco

Farmhouse Wild Ale with Saccaromuces, Torulaspora and Brettanimyces yeast extracted from local grapes (also thanks to the collaboration with the University of Teramo). Fermentation and maturation take place in barrels of former Montepulciano d'Abruzzo wine.
Just uncorked acid note between lactic and bacterial. Very light scent of unidentifiable fruit.
The appearance is, as usual, slightly hazy straw yellow and the foam is little and completely evanescent (like that of a Lambic).
In the mouth the first impact is that of mandarins: you can feel this taste of ripe orange, even with a pinch of dessert.
Then a pleasantly astringent note that "erases everything" that precedes it: short but with the right scratch. Tongue that almost dries up.
In the final notes more of wet wood and mold, of bacterium (Brettanomyces) that do not clash at all.
On the palate sweet notes of ripe citrus reappear and the true taste of citrus is perceptible, not as something artificial.
Splendid balance, although obviously there are few typical hints of a classic Farmhouse Ale because it lacks that herbaceous and straw-yellow note that makes it "funky".
It is more of a Wild Ale with fruit, but in any case, the passage in the barrel was also very successful, because you can feel those woody and impregnated wood notes, but they emerge only at the end of the drink almost to crown the whole gustatory path that is short, but very interesting.