Birra del Borgo Genziana

Brewed by Birra del Borgo
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Borgorose, Italy

Serve in Lager glass, Tumbler

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(Bottle, Monk’s Café, Stockholm) Golden amber colour with brief, foamy, white head. Fruity, floral nose with herbs, caramel and fresh grass. Fruity, herbal taste with notes of flowers, spices and bitter-sweet hints of gentian lingering in the background. Surprisingly light body, fairly dry. Refreshing and nice with balanced notes of gentian.

Wow! Amazing yet subtle pepper and spice streaks throught the nose and palate. Good hop action too; pale ale-like in this respect. Ultra-clean build that could be accused of lacking a little stuffing.

Bottle at tasting at Chris Fischer’s (from Liars Club) house. Pours with a cloudy gold body topped by a thin head with some lacing. It’s slightly sweet wtih notes of honey and a slight grassy sourness. Light bodied, smooth and a touch dry.

Courtesy of argo0. Cloudy pale with lots of sediment and small white head. The nose is overflowing with flowers and herbs, honey and cotton candy. The flavor is fairly dry, with a touch of dough, some herbs and honey. Light body is a bit thin with light carbonation.

UPDATED: MAY 23, 2008 750mL bottle, courtesy of argo0. Thanks, Aaron! Pours a hazy, bright golden-honey color; some light and dark particulates; white head with patchy fine-bubbled lacing. Flowers, honey, and a touch of spice in the aroma. Medium mouthfeel: slightly watery on the edges; floral notes, pepper, and sugary malts; pleasant yeast and esters, but sort of a messy rendition of a floral-dominated beer. Odd stuff, though I’ve come to expect such things from Italian beers. Medium finish: breadiness, spices, and some lingering floral notes.

(750ml bottle) Soft, medium white head atop hazy apple juice body. Aroma is medium sweet, floral, some bread, berry. Taste is medium sweet, melon, floral, light flowery. Watery, light-medium body.

Bottle from By The Bottle in Vancouver, WA--Poured a bright orange-copper body. Chunky with a fluffy white head. Nose was sweet, malty, estery, and floral. Rose petal/hibiscus flavor. Sweet, citrus, hoppy. Quite good.

Bottle from State Line. I like Italian beers. The bottles are interesting and unique, the styles are often interesting and always unique, and you never know quite what awaits you once for open the cap or pop the cork. This one pours turbid canary orangy with a 1-finger, fluffy off-white head, great lacing, and numerous small particulate floaties. The nose is dry florals, orange zest, hopcitrus, apricot, and spicy yeast. The flavor is dry, floral, spicy, yeast, with apricot, peach, orange zest, and hopcitrus, all combining to form a velvety palate that is so smooth I almost thought this one was nitrogenated. Nice complexity.

Bottled at Monk’s Café, Stockholm. Clear pale golden, airy head. Interesting herbal nose. Medium sweet with clean, rounded mouthfeel, Medium bodied with an interesting combination of vanilla and bitter herbs. Fresh, drinkable and intense, although perhaps a bit edgy.

Bottled at Monk’s Café, Stockholm. Pours out in a hazy golden colour with a small short-lived bubbly white foam. Very fruity aroma of orange-blossom, tangerine, tart red berries, leaves and herbs. Medium-bodied with clear flavours of grass, lemon, Seville oranges, flowers, honey and herbs. Short but really fresh aftertaste of flowers, mild herbs and mandarin. A refreshing and rather unique beer..