"Shrubman" wrote in message
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What strikes me about Moretti LaRossa is that, though it's a darker
beer, it doesn't seem to have a bitterness that I find in many others.
I'm not a Guiness drinker, for instance. Many beers that have appended
"dark" to a familiar brand name disappoint me.

Two things. "Dark" does not equate to bitter. Dark beers can be either malty
or bitter. It all depends on other ingredients. The German dark beers tend
not to be bitter.

As for appedning "dark" to a widely known beer - say, for example, Beck's
Dark - you're right that they're often disappointing. It's because often
those beers are really the same beer with a bit of coloring malt added.

The beers I mentioned, however, are brewed to have a different profile than
just simply a darker-colored version of something else. And they are by no
means bitter.


Moretti Larossa just seems to have a great combination of hoppy
sweetness, a nice fizzyness, for lack of a more appropriate word, and
the nice kick of a higher alcohol content.

Well, at the risk of sounding pedantic, you've got a few of your terms mixed
up there. Hops are what provides bitterness to a beer. What you're looking
for is a malty sweetness, which La Rossa does indeed have (and the Doppio
Malto has even more so).

I'm in Georgia in the United States, btw.

Georgia recently changed its beer laws to allow some higher-alcohol beers
into the state. Keep an eye out for German bocks and doppelbock beers. They
are definitely on the malty side and higher alcohol. They might be right up
your street.

-Steve