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9995
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Brewed by Le Baladin
Style: Barley Wine
Piozzo, Italy
Serve in Snifter

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RATINGS: 172   WEIGHTED AVG: 3.81   SEASONAL: Special   EST. CALORIES: 405   ABV: 13.5%
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A beer brewed and matured to 13.5% ABV going to 14.5% in next productions. Malts: Pilsner Durst, aromatic Dingemans, caramunich 140 Dingemans. Hops: Hallertau Hernsbrucker, Spalt Select and East Kent Golding. Brewing process: the wort is hyperconcentrated then boiled for two hous and half. Primary fermentation for 25 in steel vessels. Then after a sterile filtration (to eliminate primary yeast strains) the beer is transfered in a steel vessel with transparent membrane and a "oxygen hat". Afeter several tasting from 6 to 24 months later (it depends on the oxidation velocity, very inconsistant!) the brewer decides when it’s time to bottle in 50cl. champagne shape bottles with good quality cork. The production is very limited. Three productions brewed during two years will be available from October 2006.


2.3
   AROMA 5/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 4/10   PALATE 2/5   OVERALL 9/20
pepsiedcan (1082) - The Student Ghetto, Iowa, USA - FEB 22, 2008
Pours a hazy dark amber with no head. A large sherry and malt nose. Flavor is just not good in every way. Fake sugar, odd alcohol (powerful but no burn), green apple, raisins, rotten bodies. If this was classified as schnapps instead of beer I’d be a bit more forgiving in the score. This isn’t just a bash it because it is expensive review, this stuff is awful. I honestly had a difficult time getting through my small sample.

2.1
   AROMA 3/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 5/10   PALATE 2/5   OVERALL 8/20
luckygirl (1221) - Boulder, Colorado, USA - OCT 16, 2007
Bottled. Beer is hazy dark reddish-brown. No head.<P>Not a pretty first impression on the nose: kombucha juice and old sherry dominate. Only survivors are a light note of boozy wood, a moderate candy sugar note, and a flicker of toasted bread crust.<P>The flavor is moderately/heavily sweet, lightly bitter with a long, warm, lightly bitter, moderately sweet finish.<P>The body is medium/full, the texture is syrupy and the carbonation is still.<P>No real redemption.


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