BABB Alba

Brewed by BABB Birrificio Artigianale Bassa Bresciana
Style: German Hefeweizen
Manerbio (BS), Italy

Serve in Weizen

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Da quel che leggo vien da pensare che sia piaciuta solo a me; ottima weizen con sentore bananoso pronunciatissimo che si sviluppa dall’aroma al sapore partendo da un agrumato verso un acidulo quasi lattico. Invito fiulijn e Dorqui a tornare al BABB, che forse è migliorata. Semai ci andiamo insieme e un bicchierozzo da 50cl lo offro me.

Draught: Poured a hazy yellow with a white head. Aroma is banana, vinegar, and wheat. Taste is bitter banana and a soft yeast bread dough.

Bottle at Salone della Birra Artigianale e di Qualità 2008, Milan
Cloudy blond color. The aroma mixes banana and light spices. Thin mouthfeel, quite simple flavor. Ordinary.

chiara opalescente media schiuma non molto persistente gasatura lieve note di frumento leggermente acidule la speziatura è minima un incrocio tra una weisse e una blache ma manca di carattere

Very, very pale yellow. Opaque and minimally covered by a fading white foam. While the wheat is kind of well extracted, I must say that it’s pretty much the only favour I manage to get out of the beer. Very timid yeastiness, but a bit tart. Slightly acetic in its strong acidity. Short finish. Very light bodied. Lacklustre.

My Bottom Line:
Forgettable milky bananas sift into this light-bodied Weizen, as juicy and watery lemongrass spiciness increases drinkability. This is not a bad example of the style, but it is inherently meager.

Further Personal Perceptions:
-A thin ring of foam surrounds the whitish yellow.
-A subtle herbal spiciness swims within.
-Carbonation is prickly, but relaxes after breathing a few minutes.
-The body is thin and its dry cereals not chewy enough to create interest.

Bottle at the Flaveurs Bières et Caprices festival.

Draught @ Brew Pub, Fermento, Milan, Italy. Unclear medium yellow color with a small to average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is light to moderate malty, wheat, moderate yeasty, gum. Flavor is moderate sweet with a average duration. Body is light to medium, texture is watery, carbonation is soft. (061107)

UPDATED: OCT 1, 2007 Hazy orange, small rim. Orange zeste, citrus, coriander, wheat and some dough-smell in the nose. Dry grains taste with citrus component, but not much more. Astringent MF, dry, but with a titillating backthroat feeling. Light to medium bodied. Bit light, poor beer, not very interesting. Was: 5/4/5/3/9
New rating, 2007, draught Hazy yellow-greenish beer with huge snow-white head, some lace. Cloves, and again sulphurr in the nose, and something like wet moss. Sweet weizen, banana, clove flavours. Sweetness is very present, despite the subzero serving temperature. Also something salty-fishy, but not in balance. Light, wheat slickness. Rather poor, disappointing Weizen.

UPDATED: SEP 13, 2007 Draught at the brewpub.
Compact and adherent foam. Good persistence. Typical wheat’s beer. Yellow color clearly, pale. Light, little intense scent. It would seem a weiss but the end is typical of one witbier. Refreshing