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Imper Ale Bionda
Birra Tenute Collesi SRL
- From:
- Birra Tenute Collesi SRL
- Italy
- Style:
- European Pale Lager
Ranked #26 - ABV:
- 6%
- Score:
- 83
Ranked #24,118 - Avg:
- 3.6 | pDev: 13.61%
- Reviews:
- 12
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Dec 19, 2023
- Added:
- Apr 24, 2010
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 1
Elegant and surprising, the foam of this elegant Collesi Bionda Craft Beer is rich, creamy, and at the same time, very fine-grained and with a pleasantly light consistency. Its body is full and well-rounded. Obtained from Pilsen-Munich malt, unpasteurized and naturally bottle conditioned, Collesi Bionda Craft Beer releases the aromas of yeast, vanilla, freshly baked bread and honey. And it reveals fruity notes and strong hints of hop blossom and malt on the palate.
Food Pairings: This Collesi Bionda Craft Beer, with its rich and refined profile, is ideal for enhancing first-course pasta dishes, even when rich and elaborate, and is perfect for pairing with a risotto such as the classic Risotto Milanese with saffron. It goes very well with appetizers and second-course fish and seafood dishes such as scallops. Collesi Bionda Craft Beer elevates the intense flavor of aged cheeses, such as hard or semi-hard pecorino, without weighing it down.
Style: Belgian Blonde Ale; Fermentation: Top-fementing, bottle-conditioned; IBU: 18; EBC: 11; Plato scale: 14.5; Serving temperature: 4/5° C; Suggested serving glass: Stem glass; Ingredients: Water from Monte Nerone, Barley Malt, Sugar, Hops and Yeast.
Food Pairings: This Collesi Bionda Craft Beer, with its rich and refined profile, is ideal for enhancing first-course pasta dishes, even when rich and elaborate, and is perfect for pairing with a risotto such as the classic Risotto Milanese with saffron. It goes very well with appetizers and second-course fish and seafood dishes such as scallops. Collesi Bionda Craft Beer elevates the intense flavor of aged cheeses, such as hard or semi-hard pecorino, without weighing it down.
Style: Belgian Blonde Ale; Fermentation: Top-fementing, bottle-conditioned; IBU: 18; EBC: 11; Plato scale: 14.5; Serving temperature: 4/5° C; Suggested serving glass: Stem glass; Ingredients: Water from Monte Nerone, Barley Malt, Sugar, Hops and Yeast.
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Reviewed by REVZEB from Illinois
3.75/5 rDev +4.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.75/5 rDev +4.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Dark pour for a blonde ale, still mostly clear and has a big white head with trace amounts of lacing. Citrus especially lemon starts the nose off lightly with flowers, biscuit, and grassy hops. Taste is much the same but adds some malt sweetness but loses some of the floral and supporting fruit tones such as orange. Feel is medium-light bodied with a cleaner finish than expecting after a yeasty and malty muddled body for most of the sip.
Dec 19, 2023Reviewed by fumobici from Washington
3.62/5 rDev +0.6%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 3.75
3.62/5 rDev +0.6%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 3.75
Bought at a little bar in rural Tuscany, bought four different beers for a little tasting session there because the stores were all closed on Monday. Poured into a "Prodotto in Italia" water glass.
Little 33cl bottle shaped like a champagne bottle.The beer blew foam out the top when opened, had to find a bar towel to clean up.
L: Hazy, golden amber color in the glass, nice head settling down to a typical cap around the perimeter, not much lacing. Larger flecks of something floating around.
S: Yeast dominating, with a little fruity hop nose and a smoky edge. Reminiscent with the yeast of a Belgian ale.
T: mildly sour, decent malt/hop balance for the type (whatever that really is). Little hint of smoky whisky. Hop heads won't get their fix here.
F: Love it in the mouth, nice bottle conditioned carbonation on the tongue, slightly unctuous, quite luxurious.
O: This isn't a plale Eurolager by any means, probably top-fermented as claimed on the bottle in fact. I quite like it. If it were just a little hoppier, I'd have thrown this one a four.
Dec 03, 2018Little 33cl bottle shaped like a champagne bottle.The beer blew foam out the top when opened, had to find a bar towel to clean up.
L: Hazy, golden amber color in the glass, nice head settling down to a typical cap around the perimeter, not much lacing. Larger flecks of something floating around.
S: Yeast dominating, with a little fruity hop nose and a smoky edge. Reminiscent with the yeast of a Belgian ale.
T: mildly sour, decent malt/hop balance for the type (whatever that really is). Little hint of smoky whisky. Hop heads won't get their fix here.
F: Love it in the mouth, nice bottle conditioned carbonation on the tongue, slightly unctuous, quite luxurious.
O: This isn't a plale Eurolager by any means, probably top-fermented as claimed on the bottle in fact. I quite like it. If it were just a little hoppier, I'd have thrown this one a four.
Reviewed by darktronica from Indiana
3.64/5 rDev +1.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.64/5 rDev +1.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
A nice, easy-drinking Italian lager. Fizzy but not gushing, this overflowed when popping the cap. Pours a nice, hazy golden brown, with some suspension of particulates. This is a fairly straightforward experience, with aromas and flavors of honey, tobacco, and yeasty bread, with an undercurrent of floral hops. Pleasant, but with a very short finish. Agreed with some of the other reviews that this is a perfectly acceptable eurostyle lager, but missing a certain je ne sais quoi that could take it to the next level.
Aug 15, 2015Rated by alcohline_trip from Pennsylvania
2.03/5 rDev -43.6%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2 | taste: 2 | feel: 2 | overall: 2
2.03/5 rDev -43.6%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2 | taste: 2 | feel: 2 | overall: 2
Must have been an old bottle because this was nasty! Drain pour all the way.
Jun 02, 2015Reviewed by Fatehunter from Oregon
3.73/5 rDev +3.6%
look: 5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.73/5 rDev +3.6%
look: 5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Pours two finger of head on a cloudy straw body.
The aroma is fruity with spice.
The taste has lemon bitterness, then a nice mild brown sugar sweetness. The texture is crisp and fizzy.
It's tasty.
May 31, 2015The aroma is fruity with spice.
The taste has lemon bitterness, then a nice mild brown sugar sweetness. The texture is crisp and fizzy.
It's tasty.
Rated by PfBeerMan from Texas
3.51/5 rDev -2.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.51/5 rDev -2.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
Fruity floral flavor that was pleasant to drink but had a bit of a sour after taste.
May 19, 2015Reviewed by StonedTrippin from Colorado
3.44/5 rDev -4.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.44/5 rDev -4.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
again the aftertaste of all these is like i just smoked some cigs, but the looks are nice, pale hazy blonde with an inch of head when you pour it hard, and minimal head when you dont. the nose is cool from the yeast, simple but wheat malty and a little plain but well done. there is a cracker grain profile, a little richer than the other light one, but less so than the amber, which i didnt really like at all. enjoyable fruit esters, and a long grainy finish before the tar and cigarette kick in, o hate the finish, but the rest is solid. good bubbles, even though it looks a little flat, it tickles the tongue just right, and if this had a little less body it would be a much better beer. with all of these, freshness may be an issue. they are well made, but each is lacking something egregiously, and it makes them all average. all of them so far that is, still have a few to go. i would not buy this one again, although it easily beats the amber.
Jan 19, 2014
Imper Ale Bionda from Birra Tenute Collesi SRL
Beer rating:
83 out of
100 with
34 ratings
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