Menabrea Top Restaurant 7,5°

Brewed by Menabrea (Forst)
Style: Dunkler Bock
Biella, Italy

Serve in Dimpled mug, Snifter

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660ml bottle (?, Tallinn) - shared by old Marduk - thanks!
Papery aroma. Looks good, a reddy brown with a nice off-white head. Pretty nasty palate. Vomit burn in the back of my mouth. Nasty.

660ml bottle beer. Dark, deep brown color. Tiny head, doesn’t stay for long. Not much of aroma. Buttery, faint toffee, malty, dark fruits in aroma. Aroma overall is thin. Buttery, dry yeast, malty, grainy flavor. Dry mouthfeel.

Found this one in a bottle at DeLaurenti -- thanks to Ann for the gift card! Seemed like it was pouring a bit light at first, but the full glass reveals a nice transparent nut brown with a slight reddish note. Brown sugar, figs and dates, and a bit of nut shell on the nose. Flavor brings a tinny note (cheap hops?), though follows fairly well. It has a nice, full, smooth body, and is actually far more drinkable than I’d imagined. This was a nice surprise.

Pours clear brown with a thick but fading tan head. Aroma and taste of caramel, nuts, with a sort of plastic edge to it. Sweet taste fades into a grainy finish.

Commercial Description:
7.5 ° Top Restaurant is the very first Double Malt Red created by Menabrea. Double malt beer with cold fermentation, with abundant and persistent foam, dark red. Structured body, perceptible bitter and balanced taste and intense malty with spicy tones. Produced in the tradition of Menabrea with corn, malt, hops, water. Goes well with salmon, red meats and cheeses. Recommended to be consumed at a temperature around 6/8 ° C. 7.5% alc. / Vol

Bottle - big thick head, dark amber color, sweet malty/bready aroma and flavor, mild hops - a little too sweet, would have liked a little more bitter hop balance

First U.S. rate. 750mL bottle poured into a large white wine glass. The only reason I purchased this beer is because there are no ratings for it or the 3.5 version. I picked this up at the Wine & Cheese Place in StL, can it be that it was the only store to get these beers? The best aspect of this beer is the presentation starting with the bottle. Its an original 750mL shaped bottle, its embossed, decorated cap, what else can one ask for. The pour is nice, thick head, dark chestnut colored body. If beer was all about presentation then we got ourselves a winner. Unfortunately, I have more than one sense. The rest of it is your generic Euro dark lager. The nose is starting to turn just a little sour, probably age at this point. A slightly sweet lager, pretty light, leafy, metallic, meh.

Bottle acquired in the market in Porto San Giorgio. Pretty cool piece of glass it has to be said. Deep rich amber brown colour, small head. Quite a rich boozy character to it (as with all the heavy bock/dunkelbocks), malt predominates with toffee and caramelly alcohol. Drinks fairly well co sidering strength. I actually think this style struggles for complexity somewhat, but this beer was enjoyable.

Bottle 750ml.

Clear medium to dark brown amber colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white to beige head. Aroma is moderate malty, bread, toasted, caramel, figs - date. Flavour is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft, finish feel is light alcoholic. [20120529]

Bottled. A nut-brown beer with a thin beige head. The aroma has notes of caramel, malt, and a bit of alcohol. The flavor is sweet with notes of caramel, malt, and a bit of alcohol, leading to a dry finish.