Country of Origin: Italy
Price comparison: I had this in a restaurant, as I got taken out to dinner unexpectedly, and therefore, having become an insufferable critic, I ordered a beer I'd never had before and borrowed a pen and order blank from the server for taking notes. At any rate, because it was a restaurant, I paid about twice what you'd pay in a store.
Alcohol percentage by volume: 6%
Cute bottle/label? Not really. 12-ounce green glass; white label with red and green accents in case we'd forgotten it was Italian.
Appearance: Your basic lager. Darker and less obviously YELLOW! than Mountain Dew, but slightly lighter than straw. Decent suds; some laciness left on the glass.
Scent: What a brat I've become. This lager smelled skunky to me after all the yummy 9% ale I've been consuming lately. On second sniff, I could detect a little spiciness, but not anything recognizable.
Flavor: Tasted better than it smelled. There was some bitterness to it; I wound up (God forgive me) requesting a wedge of lemon with which to doctor the flavor, and it worked like a charm. Peppery toward the bottom of the bottle.
Impressions: Not unlike Corona in flavor; definitely a good pizza beer. Not so much of a good kick-back-and-relax beer, and very — how shall I put this delicately? oh, I guess I can't — bubbly. Not a beer to be consumed in front of handsome young men. Fortunately, handsome young men stopped buying me beers years ago, and if That Man of Mine was going to have issues with my belching half the alphabet, he'd have said something a long time ago.
Will I buy this beer again? Maybe I'll pick some up next time we have pizza. I don't imagine it's going to occupy a regular spot in my fridge though.
Rating:
3 out of 5 cute beer glasses
Reviewed: September 23, 2003
