Birra del Borgo Genziana

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

Serve in Lager glass, Tumbler

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Draught @ Open Baladin Roma, Via degli Specchi 6, Roma, Italy 00186.

Clear medium orange color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, white to off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, moderate hoppy, flowers, gentian! Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a average to long duration, flowers, anis seed. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20100602]

Draft. A hazy dark golden beer with a lazing beige head. The aroma has notes of perfumy hops and straw as well as lighter notes of malt and spices. The flavor is very sweet with notes of malt, caramel, straw, and hops.

Bottle 75 cl. Pours a cloudy golden with tiny impurities and a white head. Sweet fruity nose with a little spice. Medium body, sweet fruit, a little yeast and quite a fresh spiciness. Ends dry but not really hoppy. Pleasant. 180218

From tap at Open Baladin. Pours hazy orange with a small white head. Aroma is mild fruity and slight yeasty. Sweet fruity flavoured. Mild citrusy hops note, slight peachy too. Light mellow yeasty note. Ends dry and mellow.

Bottled@Monks Café, Wallingatan. Orange colour, small white head. Aroma is wood, some glue and mild notes of alcohol and herbs. Also some green apples. Flavour i malty, some glue, mild grassyness as well as some mild earthyness and herbs.

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.

Bottle. Sweet aroma, citric fruitiness, orange peel. Cloudy dark yellow colour. Small white head. The flavour has a good, clean bitterness, like orange peel again. Good refreshing fruit flavour. Sweet, but balanced.

RBESG 2010, draught at Open Baladin
Golden color. Nice hop aroma, with just light herbs. Good body, malty, sweet; it has just a light herbal touch, not necessarily gentiane. Correct bitterness. Good.

Clear golden with a medium white head. Sweet and yeasty aroma with ripe fruits, caramel and malt. Fruity flavour with malt, yeast, caramel and ripe fruits. Finished somewhat dry from the hops.

Tap @ Open Baladin, Rome. Pours unclear orange with a small creamy white head. Nose is yeast and herbs. Lots of coriander and some cardemum. Dry yeasty and fruity flavor. Medium bodied. Spicy end