Pietra (Amber)
Brasserie Pietra

Pietra (Amber)Pietra (Amber)
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From:
Brasserie Pietra
 
France
Style:
Vienna Lager
Ranked #131
ABV:
6%
Score:
75
Ranked #27,463
Avg:
3.26 | pDev: 15.03%
Reviews:
96
Ratings:
164
Status:
Active
Rated:
Dec 28, 2023
Added:
Nov 19, 2002
Wants:
  6
Gots:
  25
Pietra, the chestnut beer
Beer of the land and nature

PIETRA is a specialty beer, of low fermentation.

Using traditional methods it is brewed from selected malts and chestnut flour.

The chestnuts used come from the most beautiful and highest chestnut grove in Europe, located in the Castagniccia, at an altitude of over 1,000 meters.

Every autumn the fruit is hand-picked, transported down the hill on donkeys and sorted by hand. This guarantees flour of a very high quality, from a totally natural environment.

Highly fermentable, chestnut flour has an excellent impact on the quality of the head and gives beer its beautiful coloring. Mixed into the malt during the mashing process, the chestnut flour is a prime ingredient and not just a flavoring.

This recipe, unique in the world, gives PIETRA its conflicting taste accentuating a lingering subtle bitterness.

Powerful and delicate, robust and smooth, Pietra has a 6% alcohol content. It displays a beautiful amber color, an intense chestnut head, dense and creamy, making the pleasure of tasting it all the more enjoyable.
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Ratings by FCox143:
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Rated by FCox143 from England

3.77/5  rDev +15.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75

Oct 03, 2016
More User Ratings:
 
Rated: 3.65 by Thomas_Wikman from Texas

Dec 28, 2023
 
Rated: 2.98 by Robertas from Lithuania

Jan 15, 2023
 
Rated: 3.96 by Ushouldbeworkinh from England

Oct 28, 2020
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Reviewed by PJBScript from California

4/5  rDev +22.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
ok, this isn't a 'real' review because I'm not yet up to speed on the terminology ... but ..... as far as Pietra is concerned, let me review from memory exactly one year ago. My wife and I rented a car and, camping, circumnavigated Corsica and criscrossed it twice last summer over two weeks. Beaches, mountain peaks, ancient villages everywhere, and Napoleon. I drank plenty of Pietra, and it's incredibly fresh out of the cans there. Draft, well, it's even better! It's hard not to love the island and the unique, proud people, and their beer is spectacular. I find it very hard to say that about the rest of the beer in mainland France. The chestnut in Pietra adds an excellent flavor overtone, and is far from overpowering, and blends in perfectly with the malt and hop flavors. The chestnut likely adds a bit of body to the beer, which is not a bad thing here. Carbonation, head are above average for an inexpensive beer. It's the flavor, for me, that did the job ..... have it with a couple of newfound Corsican friends overlooking the harbor in Bastia ... maybe take out French citizenship, move there, relax ....
Sep 17, 2020
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Reviewed by Steve555 from Wales

3.46/5  rDev +6.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Copper colour one finger head leaves half finger white head remaining, nutty and caramel aroma. Taste is nuts and flour. A bitter flour taste makes this a sipper rather than a chugger and burned malts. Right level of alcohol. Pretty balanced and pleasant.
Jul 03, 2020
 
Rated: 3.6 by Silke_Neryn from Sweden

Dec 19, 2019
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Reviewed by superspak from North Carolina

3.78/5  rDev +16%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
Got in a trade with Shanex. 330 ml bottle into lager glass, best before 7/2021. Pours fairly crystal clear deep golden/amber, light orange/copper color with a 1 finger fairly dense and rocky off white head with great retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a moderate amount of of streaming carbonation. Aromas of brown sugar, brown bread dough, and toasted biscuit; with lighter notes of caramel, nuttiness, roast, wood, pepper, herbal, floral, grass, and yeast earthiness. A bit too fruity/yeasty aromas, but not overwhelming. Nice aromas with good balance and complexity of bready malts and light-moderate earthy hop notes; with good strength. Taste of brown sugar, brown bread dough, and toasted biscuit; with lighter notes of caramel, nuttiness, roast, wood, pepper, herbal, floral, grass, and yeast earthiness. Light-moderate herbal, floral, woody, grassy, peppery bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of brown sugar, brown bread dough, toasted biscuit, light caramel/nuttiness/roast, wood, pepper, herbal, floral, grass, and yeast earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Very nice complexity, robustness, and balance of bready malts and light-moderate earthy hop flavors; with a great malt/bitterness balance, and no astringent flavors after the finish. Fairly crisp finishing. Fairly clean on lager flavors, not overly fruity/yeasty. Light-moderate increasing dryness from lingering bitterness. Medium-plus carbonation and medium body; with a very smooth and moderately bready/grainy/sticky balanced mouthfeel that is great. Zero warming alcohol for 6%. Overall this is a very good Vienna lager. All around nice complexity, robustness, and balance of bready malts and light-moderate earthy hop flavors; very smooth and fairly crisp/refreshing to drink with the mellowly bitter/drying finish. Nicely clean vienna malt showcase, and noble hop presence/balance. Mild residual sweetness with crisp dryness. A very enjoyable offering, and well made style example. Just wish it was a bit cleaner on the yeast.
Sep 16, 2019
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Reviewed by mishi_d from Romania

3.27/5  rDev +0.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
Clear amber color with white head, malty aroma with herbal notes, taste ol malts, herbs, chesnut and hopps, medium sweetness, medium bitterness, light to medium body.
Jul 05, 2019
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Reviewed by pat61 from Minnesota

4/5  rDev +22.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
L: hazy amber with a thin white film of a head

S: nuts and a little tartness, some fruit, biscuit and a little alcohol

T: Mildly sweet nuts and brown sugar with a little tartness and a hint of fig. Hop bitterness is low.

F: medium plus body, medium low carbonation

O: An unusual but interesting and pleasant beer.
Jun 10, 2019
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Reviewed by flyingpig from Scotland

3.25/5  rDev -0.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
330ml Bottle from Franprix, Paris (€2.60):
Slightly basic but pleasant, this one was an interesting beer with a sticky-sweet opening that almost seemed overdone but mellowed slightly further on. There was some nice biscuit malts and earthy flavours too with a hint of alcohol further on as well, surprisingly.
Dec 18, 2018
 
Rated: 3.25 by YvesB from Belgium

Oct 29, 2018
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Reviewed by elnachooo from Spain

2.47/5  rDev -24.2%
look: 3 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.25 | feel: 2.25 | overall: 2.5
Cerveza con cuerpo medio y carbonatación media. En su aroma se puede percibir la malta, el caramelo y la castaña. Algo pesada al paladar y con un final amargo.
Oct 19, 2018
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Reviewed by BierRunner from Ohio

3.56/5  rDev +9.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Pretty copper color with light lacing in the pour with a pleasant nose. Very malty with hints of chestnut. Basic lager mouth feel with a reasonable finish.
Aug 09, 2018
 
Rated: 3 by prisdefer from New York

Jul 14, 2018
 
Rated: 3.9 by McWooze from France

Nov 09, 2017
 
Rated: 3.75 by AGust82 from Connecticut

Oct 08, 2017
 
Rated: 3.33 by HopBelT from Belgium

Jul 29, 2017
 
Rated: 2 by Hayley_86 from Netherlands

Jul 29, 2017
 
Rated: 3.46 by jeschaefer from Texas

Jun 23, 2017
Pietra (Amber) from Brasserie Pietra
Beer rating: 75 out of 100 with 164 ratings