Menabrea 1846

Brewed by Menabrea (Forst)
Style: Pale Lager
Biella, Italy

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

330ml bottle (expiry 5/09). Clear golden liquid with a small transient head. Hardly anything on the nose (slightly hoppy). Sweet on the palate with an unpleasant metallic finish. Insubstantial body. A bland lager.

Thanks to ramenen. Bottle: Drank during blackout, that´s all worth remembering.

Bottle, from Phil_l, via Beer Merchants. Thanks Phil! Pale yellow, white head with some decent lace. Nose is chalk, grassy hops, husky lager malt, a little skunk. Flavor is dry torrified grain and husky sourness with a slight bile quality. Decent weedy hop backdrop. Not as vapid as most beers that get lumped into the pale lager category.

33 cl bottle at home, bought at Vaaland, Bryne. Abv is 4,7%. Clear golden color, nice creamy head. Aroma has spices and fruit in moderate amounts. The flavor is a bit sweet with some bitterness. Thin and watery body.

Bottle. Dense mostly lasting white head. Straw yellow body. Clean, fairly dry and grainy malt aroma. Hayish hops in the background. Taste is well balanced, has a moderatly sweet and quite crisp grainy maltiness, a lemony fruitness and some noble hops down below. Light to medium body. Sugar notes in the finish. Approved!

Draught at Bishops Arms Sundbyberg 2008-08-10. Clear very light golden with a nice white head. Malty aroma, caramel. Sweet taste, malts, some vegetables and a hint of some unidentified off-taste...

pours a clear pale yellow with a medium size snow white head that dissipates quickly, not much lacing.
smell is faint, grain, malt, touch of citrus, some sweetness.
taste is sour malt, hops in the back, grain, some lemon, ends dry and slightly bitter.

UPDATED: DEC 6, 2008 this had a bit of a skunk taste to it. It wasnt too shabby but not one of my favorites. better than the 150 anniversary by far.