Grado Plato Kukumerla (Cucumerla)

Brewed by Birrificio Grado Plato
Style: Barley Wine
Chieri (TO), Italy

Serve in Snifter

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Name: Kukumeria
Date: March 15, 2009
Mode: Draft
Source: The Porter
Appearance: cloudy burnt orange, wispy beige head
Aroma: sweet and fruity aroma, orange and apricot, touch of brown sugar
Flavor: rich fruit flavor, light and fruity, warming, light bitterness
Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 15/20
Rating: 3.5/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: **4

500 ml swingtop. Murky amber with scads of partiuculate floaties, thick white head. Somewhat fruity aroma, sweet caramely malts. Rather sweet flavor, caramel and a hint of tropical fruitiness. Finish is sweet with boozy esters late.

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Bottle. Poured hazy light brown color with a moderate frothy white head that mostly lasted with good lacing. Moderate dark fruit, earthy and small caramel malt aroma. Medium to full body with a sticky texture and small particles and flat carbonation. Moderate to heavy dark fruit sweet flavor with a medium to heavy sweet finish of moderate to long duration. This is a complex good beer.

Bottle - 500mL swing top. Murky amber with a short, foamy tan head. Aroma is sweet with candied fruit, sweet malt, caramel, cake, light pineapple, tropical fruit notes and grapes. Taste is sweet malt, candied fruit, ripe grapes, light caramel, tropical fruit, flowers and soft booze. Body is medium with a bubbly carbonation. Ends with more sweet malt, candy, ripe fruits, light caramel, more pineapple, light cake notes and flowers.

Bottle split with vin and pat. Pours a hazy reddish amber with lots of fine sediment. Aroma is apple juice, cider notes. Mouthfeel is warming alcohol and funky cider notes.

Bottle. Split with Vin and James during the second Phillies NLCS game. Pours a cloudy copper with a hazy, frothy off-white lace head. Mild sediment. Aroma of apple cider, dough, honey, vanilla, fresh wheat, and hints of malted barley. Medium bodied with a huge, robust, boozy mouthfeel. Slightly spicy and sweet in the finish. Interesting and tasty barley, which subverts the style with its lighter body and more refreshing palate. Try this if you find it.

(500ml bottle) Pours a clear golden body with a small white head. Aroma of fruit, caramel, light herbs, and some metal. Flavor of caramel, raisins, subtle citrus, and brown sugar.

(500ml bottle thanks to Sammer) clearish orange/copper with very few bubbles. Nose of capers, caramel, mild alcohol, prunes/figs, raisins, and sweet grain. Taste of alcohol, caramel, toasty sugar, and raisins. A deliciously sweet linger with well hidden alcohol.

bottle, thanks to sammer, clear amber orange color with raisinbread aromas, sweet fruitcake, syrupy flavor

Goden / orange pour from bottle. Aroma is mixed tropical fruits and alcohol. Taste is bready, astringent and fruity. Warm, boozy finish. Nice.