Baladin Super Cheese

Brewed by Le Baladin
Style: Barley Wine
Piozzo, Italy

Serve in Snifter

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Yellowish head, medium, over pale-amber beer. Alcohol, fusels, old brandy, and cheesy hops (with the accent on hops, not cheese). Bit of syrup (maple?). Toasted alcoholic grain cookies (indeed perfect for drinking with cheese). Alcohol push in terribly, fusels à gogo. Rich liqueur. Fiery alcoholic MF, warming. A very impressive brew. Had I to rate it for cheese-side drink, it would probably head for 5/5.

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Bottle. Torben Matthews tasting. Nice head with good duration. Color is amber. Aroma and taste are lactose sour, sweet bread and malt.

Bottle, bought @ YNWA, Kolding.
Pours lightly muddy orange-amber with a nice, staying, creamy, off-white head. Aroma is lightly tart, some brett-character, oranges, light coriander and yeast. Great, creamy mouthfeel with low carbonation. Flavour is wonderfully malty, rye, some oranges with light tartness. Some sharpish pine hops finish it off nicely.

Off white foamy full lasting head. Cloudy orange colour. Aroma is malty with fruity (peach) and light spicy and sour notes. Flavour is fruity too with apricots tones, ending in a smooth fruity finish. Medium bodied.

Bottle 75 cl. Courtesy of fonefan. Pours a cloudy pale amber with an off-white head. Sweet’n’tart aroma of caramel and overripe fruit. Medium body, fruit - some overripe - caramel and some light oxidization. Tartish, fruity finish while the alcohol is pretty well hidden. 301109

Italian Tasting at FOF, Gyngen, Aarhus, DK Bottled, 291008. Amber with off-white head. Aroma of orange, fruit and allcohol. Flavor balanced of malt with fruit notes and a nice tone of sourness.

Bottle 750ml.
Hazy medium orange color with a average, frothy to creamy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, caramel, orange - mandarin, fruity, light alcohol. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft, finish feel is light alcoholic. [20091130]

Cloudy deep golden pour. Rather lacy, lasting off-white head. Surpringly subtle nose, strongly yeasty, bready and tart, hinting at a Sangiovese barrel. Tea-like, citrusy, lemony palate with a certain chalkiness in the finish. Light-medium bodied whereas I expected beefier malts. Active carbonation. Really unique beer, certainly unclean. Listed here as a barley wine, but the yeastiness feels Belgian with its inherent mushroomy uncleanliness. A weird concept and an appealing name. I was thrilled to find this bottle in Italy when there were absolutely no ratings for it, but the experience did not quite live up to the hype I had created by myself, for myself – don’t try that at home.

Pours a cloudy orange color with a thick, bubbly, offwhite head. Aroma and flavor of wood, fruits, spices and yeast. The body is medium with a creamy texture and moderate carbonation. This is indeed a strange beer, I don’t know what this, but it’s interesting.