32 Via dei Birrai Oppale

Brewed by 32 Via dei Birrai
Style: Belgian Ale
Onigo di Pederobba (TV), Italy

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

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Bottle 75cl @ [ Mafioso Blind Tasting @ yespr, Bottle #04.]
Unclear medium orange color with a average, frothy, good lancing, mostly lasting, white to off-white head. Aroma is light to moderate malty, moderate hoppy, citrus, orange, light to moderate yeasty. Flavor is moderate sweet and moderate to heavy bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. (300508)

Bottled. A hazy golden beer with a lazing cream colored head. The aroma has strong notes of citrus, flowers, and hops. The flavor is sweet with strong notes of hops, leading to a dry and bitter finish. Bone dry. Huge thanks to yespr for sharing.

(Bottle 75 cl) Courtesy of yespr. Pours a hazy and opaque golden with a creamy and lacing off-white head. Aroma of citrusy hops. Medium body with pale malts and a somewhat earthy note of elderflower. Fairly hop bitter finish. Not really Belgian aye? 290508

Bottle #4: 75 cL bottle. Pours murky yellow to orange with a slowly collapsing, white and creamy head. Light fruity hops aroma: light citrusy and peachy. Flavour is bone dry hoppy with a mild fruity note. Holds a medium dry caramel malt base. Solid bitterness into the finish.

Bottled. Cloudy deep golden, rich airy head. Orangey minerally nose. Mid-sweet with light-medium body, rounded mouthfeel. Notes of canteloupe and rubber. Yeasty finish with some ash. Quite reminiscent of some Argentinian microbrews.

Bottled. Hazy yellowish orange colour, mediumsized foamy white head. Aroma is fruits, some earth, mild notes of bready malts. Flavour is caramel, wood and some slight herbal notes.

Bottle #4 at yesprs mafioso blind tasting. Hazy golden coloured with a huge white ehad. Fruity aroma of spices and berries with notes of pine needles. Fruity flavour of spices, berries, hops and pine needles. Hoppy finish.

UPDATED: JUL 12, 2009 2009-05-10, 8-4-7-4-15=38
Golden color, small head. Very nice malt and cereals aroma, deep, sweetish medium body, with good malt flavor and very strong biterness, light residual sweetness that balances well. Very good.

2008-12-24, batch 20, about 2 years old, 7-4-7-4-14=36
Hazy deep blond color; big frothy head. Nice Belgian aroma. It has a strong, dry malt flavor, spicy (coriander), with strong bitterness, light bitter oranges and pine needles, some Belgian yeast character too. Probably with the age it loses the freshness (it’s the same batch as my first tasting) and the bitterness is more evident.

2008-05-30, blind tasting at Yespr’s, 6-3-4-2-9=24
Cloudy deep blond color; big head. It has some hoppy aroma. It has a dryish mouthfeel, with some malt and strong bitterness, reminding me too much the Pilsners brewed with kits (malt extracts and possibly powedered hop); and there is too much yeast; the final therefore, between yeast and bitterness, is unpleasant.

2007-03-23, bottle at Salone Della Birra Artigianale e di Qualità, Milan, 8-5-8-5-17=43
Not an IPA, but a Belgian Ale, with hops from Poperinge
Cloudy golden color; creamy head. Delicate aroma, fruity, pears, orange, flowers. Even if the alcohol rate is low, it has a good malt flavor, lasting, with an interesting hopping, and still some sweetness till the end. Excellent!

My favorite beer at the Beerfest and the biggest surprise; brewed with the perfect Belgian art, a masterpiece from the West Flanders. And it’s a real pleasure talking to the brewmaster!

[Italian Blind tasting @ yespr, Bottle 4#] Hazy golden with large white head. Sweet aroma with hoppy adn yeasty notes. Sweet flavor with floral hops and pine needles. Ends bitter.

Bottle. Pours a hazy pale yellow color with a small white head. Has a fruity malty yeasty aroma. Fruity yeasty malty flavor with some spicy hints. Has a fruity malty spicy finish with some yeasty hints.