Birra Messina

Brewed by Heineken Italia
Style: Pale Lager
Milano, Italy

Serve in Dimpled mug, English pint, Lager glass, Shaker

Bottle 330ml.

Clear light to medium yellow color with a small to average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, grain, toasted, corn, light hoppy, grassy. Flavor is moderate sweet and light bitter with a average duration. Body is light to medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20100908]

A light orange beer with a small disappearing white head. The aroma is sweet with strong notes of caramel. The flavor is sweet malty with notes of caramel and a thin body. Not bad, just plain boring.

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

33 cL bottle. Pours clear and golden yellow with a small white head. Aroma is cornish and grassy. Sweet malty, light toasted and grassy hoppy. Ends bitter and dry finish.

Bottled. Golden colourm mediumsized white head. Aroma is hay, slight earth and some hops. Flavour is just sweet maize/malts and some very skunky grassy notes. Aftertaste is mainly barnyard. Quite horror, but there are still more horrible things than this one.

Bottle. Clear yellow coloured with a white head. Skunky aroma of malts and fruits. Flavour of malts and fruits with light hoppy notes.

Bottle. Golden colour, small, fizzy white head. Standard bad lager, some citric flavours.

Clear golden with a small off white head. Somewhat malty nose with hints of caramel. Flavor had malt and grassy hops. Finished dry and slightly bitter.