La Cotta Nera
Società Agricola Colleverde
- From:
- Società Agricola Colleverde
- Italy
- Style:
- American Stout
- ABV:
- 5.2%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.71 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Feb 10, 2015
- Added:
- Feb 10, 2015
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.71/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.71/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
750ml high-end sparkling wine-style bottle. The brewers' description lacks any overt mention of adjuncts, but there is the issue of those Cascade hops, so American it is for now.
This beer pours a very, very dark brown colour, bordering on black in lower light, with a lazily teeming tower of puffy, loosely foamy, and weakly bubbly ecru head (it's bottle conditioned, all right), which leaves a few instances of sudsy chunky lace around the glass as it very slowly abates.
It smells of bready, crackery roasted caramel malt, bittersweet cocoa powder, Nordic liquorice, a soft earthy nuttiness, and leafy, weedy, and lightly grassy hops. The taste is grainy pale malt, a touch of dry caramel, medium gritty chocolate, nut dust, muddled dark fruit notes, and more leafy, grassy, and low-key citrusy hops.
The bubbles are pretty involved via their tight, bottle-aided fizziness, the body on the low side of normal-ass medium weight, and plainly smooth, the chocolate and nutty essences lending a psychological helping hand here. It finishes off-dry, the malt re-gaining some of its caramel cred, while the pan-Atlantic hops continue their spiraling death knell.
A decent stout, of Italian extraction, using ingredients from all over this great big world. The conditioning from the bottle is mostly evident in the carbonation, which is maybe a volume or so too high to be considered particularly pleasant. So let it sit a while in the glass, and things work themselves out - hardly something I feel I should be doing for well north of $10 a serving.
Feb 10, 2015This beer pours a very, very dark brown colour, bordering on black in lower light, with a lazily teeming tower of puffy, loosely foamy, and weakly bubbly ecru head (it's bottle conditioned, all right), which leaves a few instances of sudsy chunky lace around the glass as it very slowly abates.
It smells of bready, crackery roasted caramel malt, bittersweet cocoa powder, Nordic liquorice, a soft earthy nuttiness, and leafy, weedy, and lightly grassy hops. The taste is grainy pale malt, a touch of dry caramel, medium gritty chocolate, nut dust, muddled dark fruit notes, and more leafy, grassy, and low-key citrusy hops.
The bubbles are pretty involved via their tight, bottle-aided fizziness, the body on the low side of normal-ass medium weight, and plainly smooth, the chocolate and nutty essences lending a psychological helping hand here. It finishes off-dry, the malt re-gaining some of its caramel cred, while the pan-Atlantic hops continue their spiraling death knell.
A decent stout, of Italian extraction, using ingredients from all over this great big world. The conditioning from the bottle is mostly evident in the carbonation, which is maybe a volume or so too high to be considered particularly pleasant. So let it sit a while in the glass, and things work themselves out - hardly something I feel I should be doing for well north of $10 a serving.
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