Birra Messina

Brewed by Heineken Italia
Style: Pale Lager
Milano, Italy

Serve in Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Shaker

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Virtually no aroma or taste, grassy hops fade away fast with nothing on the finish. Bland in the extreme. Probably goes down a treat if you’re on holiday, but does NOTHING for me on a cold wet Scottish Saturday afternoon. Can from Peckhams

Not terrible by any means, even better than expected, has a bit of flavor to it, still average, but drinkable, I’d have it again, but not seek it. Grassy, carbonation dominates.

UPDATED: FEB 7, 2006 Well, another lager beer with corn derivades in it. Was not bad but I won’t get drunk with that.

Suprise suprise - I gotta give credit for suspecting the worst and getting mediocre beer. Yellow color, fizzy carbonation, small white head. Nose quite ok, some cardboard, herb and greass. Weak grainy taste with grass and perfume.

Dusty sweet lager nose, pale gold-yellow color, foamy fizzy head. Quick sweet malt with some citrus, hop zing at end, which is the highlight of the beer. Medium body. Average lager, but much better than expected.

Pours a MGC under med-thin white short lasting head. Aroma is faint stale bitter hops with a touch of corn syrup. Flavour, err . . . what flavour? Watery stale medium bitter acrid taste and light drip tray finish.

UPDATED: JUN 26, 2005 (Bottle 33 cl) Again this typical and wonderful Italian hoppy nose. Extremely flowery and fresh - reminds me of my first Steinie. Fully golden, nice head. Pure, malty - and then not so much more. Classical good Lager-type. "Birra di Sicilia" brewed in Milan?? 150403

Instead of leaving horses’ heads in beds, the Mafia should leave cases of this Sicilian lager. NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! Okay, it’s not that bad - just another undistinguished Mediterranean lager. Pale gold colour, hello-goodbye head. Some pepper in the vaguely herbal nose. Quenching and utterly inoffensive. The beer they’ll make you drink in Purgatory. (Bottle)

Clear copper golden body with a poor lasting head. Malt aroma that wasn’t too flash. Fairly boring lager taste, a touch metallic, caramel, corn, not much body and just managed to finish it.

An acceptable lager. Yellow with a short-lived fizzy head and moderate carbonation. Sweetish aroma. Caramel malt flavor, but very mild. Tastes like a US macro.