Semedorato
Birrificio Semedorato SRL

0.66l bottle into tumbler.

Faint chloridic nose with hint of planed wood.
Tiny fizziness in the arrival followed by a very smooth mouthfeel, drinks like a lager version of Guiness. (This is not it, but is nitro lager a thing?) Sweet arrival that dissipates quickly, cheap apricot marmelade. Dry, chloridic taste. Mintyness and some other herbality, sage, lamb's ear? Aftertaste of grill marks on good fatty beef and grilled champignons along with other dried mushroomy and hardwood notes.

Pours a clear yellow with fine, soapy head.

Smell is crackery and metallic with notes of citrus, wheat dough and some skunky, weedy hints.

Taste is crackery and a bit muddled. Metallic and skunky with notes of citrus, toast and weed. Moderate bitterness.

Mouthfeel is thin with good carbonation.

Jan 27 2025

Poured from a 330ml bottle.
Pours a very light straw yellow with a thick white head.
A mild nose and taste but great on a hot day on Lipari Island Italy.

Appearance: Pours a completely clear, medium golden color with a moderate white head. SRM of 8. (4.00)

Aroma: Strong and earthy aromas. Not skunky though. There's earthy bread notes Deep. A robust yeast. (4.00)

Flavor: Moderate flavors of earthy and bread malts. A rich earthy yeast. A slight sweet finish. (4.00)

Feel: Full-bodied. Moderate carbonation to match. No sweetness. (4.25)

Compared to Stella Artois 8/8/22: Pours a darker color. Similar pour. Earthier flavors. Less lemon and flower.

Compared to Dos Equis 8/8/22: Similar, but smoother and less peppery flavor and mouthfeel.

Overall: A nice, flavorful Euro Pale lager. This one has a nice earthy and bready flavor. Malty, bready, smooth. Drinks extremely well. (Rating: 4.08)

I bought a 6 pack 330ml bottles at 5%.
At the beerstore in Ontario.
Poured into glass with a 1to 2finger creamy head that went down slowly and leaving a lace as you drink it.
Fast carbonation
I like this beer better then the other Italian beers.
Overall easy to drink and refreshing
Drink it cold preferred yes .
Would buy this again.
Cheers.

 

From the bottle, it pours a clear light yellow color with a modest white head that soon reduces to a ring and islands. Scent is grainy with notes of grass. The mouth follows the nose with a moderately dry finish and mild to no aftertaste.

Drink it cold on a hot day in Sicily!!

 

 

Poured into a Seattle Beer Week pint glass. Pours a light to medium golden amber with a fine, two finger white head with great retention and solid lacing. Aroma of mildly grainy malt, grassy hops; very skunky. Flavor is grainy malt and light grassy hops with a developing light sweetness; finishes skunky and grassy. Medium bodied with light creaminess. My first chance at a beer from Sicily, but not too unexpectedly, it's a run of the mill pale lager. Came in a green bottle and had the expected skunking. Underneath, there is the typical lightly sweet, grainy character of a light lager and though mild, pleasant enough. Why this was distributed in green glass is a mystery; I'm not sure the skunkiness is an asset for most people.

 

Taste: crisp, wheat grain, yeast, some herbal floral hops. Same with the nose. Golden hue, clear with a white head and a webbed lattice of lace. Medium/light body. Easy to drink. 22 IBUs

It pours clear and has a nice honey color, with a tall head that quickly dissipates.

It smells strongly of earthy, central European hops. This might be off-putting to some people, and it is fair to compare it to a skunk, but the smell is expected for this style of beer and isn't, in my opinion, a bad smell.

The taste is very good. It is a traditional Italian lager, and as such is sweet and not remotely bitter. Once again, I will insist that this is normal for the style of beer, and is not bad. It doesn't taste like a porter, an IPA, or an American lager because it is none of those things. It tastes like a nice, sweet, malt-forward beer with a corny, beady aftertaste.

Feels good in the mouth. Has very little texture, and goes down smooth. Is best chilled on a warm summer day.

Overall, if you like sweet, malty, earthy lagers, you will like this. On the other hand if you like "cleaner" more bitter beers with less strong odor and aftertaste, you might want to look elsewhere.

Pours a crystal clear light straw-gold color. Extremely effervescent. Thick pillowy white head collapses leaving nothing but a thin white residual head.

Aroma is initially like sticking your nose in a skunks ass. But as the beer warms and the skunky aroma dies down you get much more in the way of sweet corn and grain. Hints of skunky earthy hops peep through.

Taste has notes of sweet grain, light bready malts, some sweet corn notes, a touch of lightly bitter hops on the back end. Surprisingly sweet.

Feel is light, pretty crisp, Bright vibrant carbonation.

Overall its somewhat drinkable, but the skunkiness and sweetness is a weird combo.

Picked this up at Aldi. It is a very light and bland lager. It’s not bad with food, but certainly nothing special.

 

Light, refreshing, not too carbonated. I'd put in the same category as Rolling Rock: incredibly inoffensive and mildly tasty.