Cellaring Mattina Rossa?

cracked one last night... its wayyyy more complex now with a huge tartness. raspberrys are still there just not as prominent but still juicy.

this beer develops nice. so funky now.

 

Good to know. Still have one in the reserves. May put another 4-6months on it. We'll see.

 

Does anyone know how to distinguish a Batch 1 from a Batch 2? I know there's a Feb 2015 bottling date on the most recent release. Mainly asking as I've been in talks with someone who has a Mattina bottle with no bottling date on it that he was given at an event prior to the release of the 2015 batch. I did a google search and noticed that there are Mattina labels with a line across the top where the picture of the raspberries are. The person I'm talking to who received it as a gift sent me pics of both and am wondering if he ended up receiving a bottle of batch 2 prior to the actual release of the beer. The pic of the bottle with no date didn't have the line across the top.

 

Sounds like a headache. If it was before the 2015 release, i'd say its the 1st. There was a similar anecdote from someone else in here.

 

The past year or so they started using a separate back label on all their sours, where before they only had a front label. So besides the bottle date, that's a good determination of when it was bottled.

 

Not sure why I didn't mention it, but I had one of my two bottles on New Years, almost a year ago. It was on a fresh pallet. And it was SO fucking sour. Like almost undrinkable. And I love very sour stuff. Until I had Postcursor from Proclamation a couple months ago, it was by far the most sour beer I had.

Im fearful for this beer now. Should I expect it to get more funky, less sour? Obviously the fruit will fade somewhat. Really think this and New Glarous Wisconsin Belgian Red blended together would be great. The NG stuff is perfect but too sweet.