Amiata Cinabro

Brewed by Birra Amiata
Style: Barley Wine
Arcidosso (GR), Italy

Serve in Snifter

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Ieri questa era in formissima, complessità di frutta rossa, cioccolato, liquoroso, ma comunque straordinariamente leggiadra nella bocca, con erpoepri

bevuta in bottiglia si presenta di color rosso con profumi importanti di frutta matura. Scarsa la schiuma ma molto persistente, in bocca lascia un piacevole amaro dopo un inizio dolcino.

Bottle, 10.5%. Good citric aroma, hint of vanilla and dried fruit. The flavour is also citric, seems to come from hops, or perhaps a wooden cask. Good wooden flavour, balanced well by alcohol and hop bitterness. There is a little strange note, some weird plastic or something.

Verre de dégustation, provenant d’une bouteille de 330 ml, au Mondial de la Bière 2011 (Montréal, QC). Arôme: Légère odeur de caramel fruité. Apparence: La couleur est ambrée foncé. Présence d’un mince col mousseux et d’une fine dentelle sur le verre. Saveur: Goût de caramel légèrement fruité avec une pointe d’agrumes. Durée moyenne de l’arrière goût. Palette: Le corps est moyen avec une texture légèrement onctueuse. Moyenne effervescence en bouche. Présence de caramel en arrière goût. (Rating #3742)

Batch 95E
Beautiful red-amber color; creamy head. The aroma is malty, but unfortunately it shows a very light, suspicious sourness. Quite good body structure; good caramel flavor; it’s less malty than the sample I had at the recent IBF in Milan, so I suspect that some of the sugars have been processed by an infected yeast. It has a quite strong bitterness, more than an English example, but not aromatic or resiny like an American one; the bitterness level is also influenced by the infection (?). The final is also nutty. Not bad, but imprecise.

A reddish brown barley wine with a thin moka head. In aroma, vinous malt, fruity, dark prunes, musty. In mouth, a sweet candy sugar with faint hops, treacle, barley candy, a bit thin, but nice. Bottle at Mondial 2011, June 9, 2011.

33 cL bottle. Pours hazy orange with a small off-white head. Roasted, mild citric spiced and sour milky aroma. Sweet and citric flavoured. Mild spiced. Lasting roasted malt impression mixed with a mild citric milky note and light spiced finish.

Good persistent, yellow head, slightly hazy orange beer. Acidic, lactic, yoghurt, oxydized. Yoghurt flavour, with alcohol and raisins. Very burning MF, fiery alcohol and acids. Not convincing. Very strange beer.

courtesy of fiulijn - pours a fully cloudy reddish-brown colour with a little beige foam; aggressive nose with notes of prune, malt and lemon; very sweet and sticky, thick; good malt body and with a late and solid bitterness; the finish is sticky with lot of fruity notes and a very burning alcohol touch - quite a strange beer.

Bottled. An unclear amber beer with an off-white head. The aroma has notes of malt combined with lighter notes of fruit. The flavor is lightly acidic with notes of malt and caramel, leading to a dry and lightly roasted finish.