Castello Birra Friulana Oro Planais

There were strikes against this beer before the first sip: it’s an Italian pale lager, the bottle is green and maize is listed as an ingredient. And it doesn’t get much better from there. Pale gold with a skimpy ring of suds. The grainy aroma is rich with corn and bready malts. Stale oxidised cardboard taint. Thin bodied. Sweet pale malts dominate on the tongue. Faint residual bitterness. Cheap and nasty. No real finish to speak of. A dull summer cleanser. (330ml bottle branded "Birra Friulana Castello Premium" and imported into Australia. 5% abv. BB 1/2/09)

33 cL bottle. Pours pale yellow with a crispy white head. Slight grainy aroma with a mild maltbase beneath. Flavour is grainy, somewhat malty with a vague bitterness towards the finish. Bad.