Meridiano Ø
Birrificio Del Forte
- From:
- Birrificio Del Forte
- Italy
- Style:
- Extra Special / Strong Bitter (ESB)
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.97 | pDev: 3.27%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Apr 16, 2017
- Added:
- Aug 03, 2013
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
4.07/5 rDev +2.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.07/5 rDev +2.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
750ml bottle, another off-center, yet very stylish offering from an Italian brewery, like it's in their blood, or something. Anyways, big props once again to doktorzee for lugging this back from (my) old country for me. Big seaside/maritime theme to this brewery, apparently - perhaps due to that paltry mile or so distance between them and the Ligurian Sea? That extra 'Ø' seems more Norwegian in origin, though.
This beer pours a rather dark, murky bronzed amber hue, with two fingers of reservedly puffy, fairly creamy, and bubbly off-white head, which leaves some random sea plume lace around the glass as it gently subsides.
It smells of grainy, rather biscuity caramel malt, a soft citrus and drupe fruit salad sweetness, and crisp earthy, leafy, and grassy noble hops - stiff upper lip, Tower of London stuff here, I say! The taste is more gritty, bready caramel malt, soft pitted orchard fruit, and earthy, somewhat spicy leafy hops. Simple, kind of, but those in the GMT zone can hardly argue with this.
The carbonation is pretty active, but in a base, low-fi, supportive kind of manner, the body a staid medium weight, and generally quite smooth. It finishes just off-dry, the biscuity malt doing well to carry this one through on premise alone - the fading leafy, earthy hops just a happy add-on.
Well, my Italian is hardly proficient, but when I read beer labels from said country, I'm suddenly damned-near fluent, it would seem. Anyways, they indicate that this is an ode to the hop-forward styles of central London, and I can only infer that, in addition to their further elucidation on specific maltiness, and my own, well, present tastebuds, that this is a straight-up, veritable ESB. And a pretty agreeable one at that - alla salute!
Aug 03, 2013This beer pours a rather dark, murky bronzed amber hue, with two fingers of reservedly puffy, fairly creamy, and bubbly off-white head, which leaves some random sea plume lace around the glass as it gently subsides.
It smells of grainy, rather biscuity caramel malt, a soft citrus and drupe fruit salad sweetness, and crisp earthy, leafy, and grassy noble hops - stiff upper lip, Tower of London stuff here, I say! The taste is more gritty, bready caramel malt, soft pitted orchard fruit, and earthy, somewhat spicy leafy hops. Simple, kind of, but those in the GMT zone can hardly argue with this.
The carbonation is pretty active, but in a base, low-fi, supportive kind of manner, the body a staid medium weight, and generally quite smooth. It finishes just off-dry, the biscuity malt doing well to carry this one through on premise alone - the fading leafy, earthy hops just a happy add-on.
Well, my Italian is hardly proficient, but when I read beer labels from said country, I'm suddenly damned-near fluent, it would seem. Anyways, they indicate that this is an ode to the hop-forward styles of central London, and I can only infer that, in addition to their further elucidation on specific maltiness, and my own, well, present tastebuds, that this is a straight-up, veritable ESB. And a pretty agreeable one at that - alla salute!
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