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Amarcord Gradisca (Prima Donna)

Score
2249
OVERALLStyle
Brewed by Birra Amarcord
Style: Premium Lager
Apecchio (PU), Italy
Serve in Lager glass

bottled
common

on tap
available

Broad Distribution

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RATINGS: 92   WEIGHTED AVG: 2.65   EST. CALORIES: 156   ABV: 5.2%
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COMMERCIAL DESCRIPTION
Prima Donna Special Lager is a classic lager noted for its unique aroma and its unsurpassed hoppy flavour. It is characterized by a brillant golden color, a compact head, and its fresh, thirst-quenching qualities.

An Oscar-winning beer
…we chose to call our beer Gradisca, because we brew it in this corner of Romagna and San Marino, between the sea and the hills, a land rich in history and amazing stories. But above all, as a tribute to an illustrious celebrity who was born here, film director Frederico Fellini, who conquered cinema-goers the whole world over with his rich and poetic vein of inspiration, winning as many as four Oscars for his films, including, of course, Amarcord, where Gradisca is the protagonist. 4.7% Alc. Vol.

Note: Uses the name Gradisca on the local market, and Prima Donna for export.
Known for being 4.7% ABV in the past, now at 5.2% ABV.


2.4
   AROMA 5/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 4/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 9/20
HenrikSoegaard (7858) - Randers, DENMARK - MAY 22, 2012
Bottle. Creamy white good mostly lsting head. yellow colour. Light bitter flavor. hay notes. Average light bitter finish. Oily palate.

2.8
   AROMA 5/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 5/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 12/20
onystrom (1275) - Magellan Hunter! - Skanderborg, DENMARK - MAY 22, 2012
Hazy golden colr with fine head. A lot of malty sweetness and smooth palate. not bad for a premium.

2.5
   AROMA 5/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 5/10   PALATE 2/5   OVERALL 10/20
saxo (8425) - Højbjerg, Aarhus, DENMARK - MAY 22, 2012
Bottle. Nice head with good duration. Color is golden. Aroma and taste are sweet malt and hops.

2
   AROMA 3/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 4/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 7/20
Rune (4924) - Tromsø, NORWAY - MAY 4, 2012
Two 330ml bottles with the pasta food at Italia Bar in Edinburgh. Clear, straw coloured body. Diminishing, airy white head. Modest taste of grainy malts. Herbal hops and vegetables in flavour. Very dry and sweet to the finish. Possible to drink with the food, 14.04.2012.

2.9
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 11/20
yngwie (9175) - Kristiansand, NORWAY - APR 8, 2012
Bottle. A clear, golden colored beer with a small, white head. Almost ham-like aroma with fruityness and maltyness as well. The flavor is mostly on the fruity side, with a backbone of pale malts. Some bitterness detected, but it wouldn’t hurt with some more, and that goes for the finish as well. Medium body, with pleasant carbonation level. Some metallic notes in the end. A decent and drinkable beer, but I don’t like the metallic finish. 110916

2.3
   AROMA 5/10   APPEARANCE 2/5   TASTE 5/10   PALATE 2/5   OVERALL 9/20
solidfunk (647) - Ontario, CANADA - MAR 25, 2012
This one isn’t quite as bad as your average lager from around here but it’s still quite crappy. There’s a faint touch of cloudiness that makes it taste like watered-down hoegaarden (which I also hate). I don’t know, got this at the beer boutique excited because they actually had something I hadn’t seen before at the Beer Store but it was just a trick - the same old crap as usual.

1.7
   AROMA 4/10   APPEARANCE 1/5   TASTE 4/10   PALATE 2/5   OVERALL 6/20
kschep (1494) - DENMARK - MAR 22, 2012
#1345 bottle; Nose is decent elderflower, hay, some sweet piss, then sweet green apple, feel is watery, carb is mediumlow, taste is some lemon, barnyard, piss, green tea, late sweet celery

2
   AROMA 3/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 3/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 8/20
gunnfryd (7013) - Kristiansand, NORWAY - FEB 28, 2012
Bottle. Golden colour with a white head. Aroma is sweet, malt, berries, fruit. Flavour is sweet, malt, fruit, berries, grass. Boring beer.

0.9
   AROMA 2/10   APPEARANCE 1/5   TASTE 3/10   PALATE 1/5   OVERALL 2/20
mcberko (2463) - Vancouver, British Columbia, CANADA - FEB 24, 2012
Sampled from bottle at Brewery Creek, pours a clear piss golden yellow with a white head. Aroma and flavour: more or less the same as any bland mass-marketed lager, with corn, rice and some sweet malt. Drinkable and not overly offensive, but not good.

2.9
   AROMA 5/10   APPEARANCE 2/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 12/20
terrybail (403) - London, Ontario, CANADA - FEB 14, 2012
bottle from Steve and lisa Pours a pale flat yellow Aroma is sweet hay and malt pretty good for a lager nice sweet malt taste NB


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