Beer # 92 Castello Lager

Castello Lager

Birra Castello SpA

San Giorgio Di Nogaro, Italy
Independent
Lager 4.8 % ABV Brown Glass Bottle 330 ml.
$1.95 (Canadian) At LCBO

Twitter: @birracastello (in Italian)


This beer I picked up on a whim as I had never seen it before and had not added an Italian beer to my list of hepatic accomplishments. I could not glean a lot from the website as most of it is in Italian by I managed to understand that this is a relatively new beer, founded in 1997 (Their slogan is "The Beer without a history"). Birra Castello purchased a large facility that had previously been producing, at separate times Birra Moretti, and Heineken Italy; they gutted and retooled it making it one of most modern brewing facilites in Italy. The company brews beer very scientifically, even on their website they list brewing calculations that mean very little to the average drinker. The water is drawn from four mountainside artesian wells and the highest quality ingredients are sourced from around Italy..

Avanti! On with the Tasting:

Light gold in colour. Thin white head that disappears rapidly. Nose is sweet and floral with traces of raw honey. First sip gives a strong indication of the corn content. The taste is even and balanced moving from corn to light or crystal malt, wet grain and a mild hay-like hop note in the finish. Aeration give us a woodiness and a little more of the herbaceous hop quality. No one flavour stands out. The product is simply a nice mild lager.


Impressions: Fail, So-so, Pass, Exceptional 

Cost: 5/6 PASS
Colour: 5/6 PASS
Beer Style: 5/6 PASS
Re-Order:  4/6 PASS
Experience:  4/6 PASS

Final Thoughts:

This beer is fine...Just fine. It doesn't stand out, it just does it's job. I imagine this is the average blue collar Italian's beer. It would go well with food, pizza especially, as it would not add a lot to the experience, nor detract from it.

Cheers
CJT


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