Castello Birra Friulana Bionda

Aroma: 5 | Appearance: 4 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 4 | Overall: 4

First of two Italian lagers tried at Pub Italia (the other being Pedavena). Came in a 330ml brown bottle with a best before: 06.2012 served in one of their glass (which is slim and straight). Pours a yellow colour with a white foamy head which has decent lasting and good lacing. Not much taste and kind of watery. Pilsner tasting with mild grass and even a little corn in the aftertaste. Refreshing wet mouthfeel which is pretty carbonated. Its nose is soft with malt. Overall, a watery pils that is not bad, but nothing really special (like most Italian lagers).

Aroma: 4 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 6

Had in KC @ a little italian deli, after spending a couple of hours in the basement of the the Arabia musuem during a tornado warning, sirens blaring and all.. . . Gold, light foam .. . light crispness, decent .. . Come get your bananas, very good good bananas! very straight bananas!!

Aroma: 4 | Appearance: 4 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 4 | Overall: 4

The beer pours out a cream-soda like watered-down brown color with a minimal scant head. Soapy lacing left behind. Aroma is bready, slightly minerally. Flavor is lightly sugary sweet, minerally, and a touch of sweet bread. Really blah.

Aroma: 3 | Appearance: 2 | Mouthfeel: 2 | Flavor: 2 | Overall: 2

Golden colour, small white head. Barnyard in aroma, along with hops. Flavour is diacetylic, paprery and skunked hops. Unpleasantly sweet. Mouthdrying, yet the palate is watery.

Aroma: 5 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 4 | Overall: 3

Bottle matches "Blond Castle Beer" on the brewer's website. However, the color seemed darker than golden in my plastic party cup, more like orange. Anyway, enough of the appearance confusion for this swill. The aroma was of bread and cardboard. The flavor was bready and caramel malts, not light golden or pils type malts. Either way, this wasn't a good beer.

Aroma: 2 | Appearance: 4 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 2 | Overall: 4

The stupid green bottle was skunked. Had little aroma or flavor to speak of. Very light gold color. I won’t look for this again.

Aroma: 4 | Appearance: 4 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 5

A nice skunky grass and hay filled aroma that could be detected from the other side of the room. Sigh. Here we go. There is a decent malt presence in the beer with some grass and lemons. The skunk taste isnt as pronounced as the smell. Drinkable but nothing Im really enjoying either.