Time to pack the luggage and crack open the last beer on the Italian soil. 👋🏻✈️🇮🇹 I said earlier that I had two beers that contain olive oil. This was supposed to be the second one. I was mistaken — not hugely but enough — since this beer doesn't actually contain olive oil but olive extract. Sorry for confusion. The beer looks misty, pale orange with a faint milky reflection. Carbonation is quite standard as it unleashes a silky, pure white foam that exceeds one finger in height. The nose receives only oppressed aromas: soft wheat malt and orange peel. I can't get anything else. The taste receptors like the fruity foundation of the palate, especially orange peel, pineapple, lemon pulp and a wisp of banana. The malt supply is composed of wheat, faint biscuit and a suggestion of cereal. Olive extract is nowhere. I try hard to locate it both in the fragrance as well as taste but it remains camouflaged to me. Maybe it wasn't meant to show up? Who knows. The body is quite light, almost thin. The finish is citrusy and wheaty but seems to delete the other elements from the experience. The only new kid on the block is yeast. The flavors remain long in the mouth. The mouthfeel is thin, a tad frothy, modestly dry, equally modestly drying and refreshing. Very easy indeed. I'm not sure if this is Hefeweizen or Witbier. It has characteristics of both. The total absence of olive is a disappointment albeit the beer is, generally speaking, reasonable.

Heraclea is a Witbier that contains bergamot juice 🍊 The beer colors relatively murky straw. Carbonation is quite restrained and kicks out a soapy head that falls short of one finger. The head dissipates otherwise rushedly but leaves a neat lace ring circling the top and some zigzagging haze lines. The scent is subdued: I find solely faint notes of wheat malt and lemon pulp. The gustatory universe boasts with fresh lemon pulp, zippy bergamot juice, a tiny spoonful of sugar and wheat biscuit. Hmmm... I like the fruity citrus juice but the added sugar is something that I could easily live without. The body clocks light. The finish is juicy with orange, lemon and bergamot where wheat malt steps somewhat aside from the package. The finish gives the tastebuds sweet life for a short to medium while. The mouthfeel is light, juicy, zesty, refreshing and remotely zippy. Very gluggable and sessionable but somewhat blunt.

This Belgian Blonde is today's find in Reggio Calabria. The strange characteristic of this beer is that it contains OLIVE OIL. Very Calabrian. I've never tasted a beer that contains olive oil. I'm not enthralled but I want to keep my mind open. I actually bought three different products by Angel's Beer. Another one also contains olive oil if I remember correct. The third one doesn't. Anyway, this beer is turbid, dirty amber. Carbonation is fairly aggressive as the glass first fills with froth only. It takes a bit of time to settle. Once reasonable, the head is cloud-white and creamy, almost bubbleless. Retention is long. The nose receives stuffy elements, such as powerful wheat malt and wheat bread, accompanied by fruity inputs of grapefruit and orange peel, perhaps also a proposal of fermented banana. I don't pick olive oil in the olfactory sphere. The taste identity is composed of soft wheat malt, wheat biscuit, bitter orange peel and lemon pulp. A soft yeasty touch tickles gently my tastebuds. I'm not sure if I pick truly distant olive oil in the palate or not but at least I'm imagining it there. Admittedly, had I not known that it's there, I couldn't identify it in any meaningful way. What I do recognize though is sugar but, fortunately, it's really controlled. The body is medium-full. That's where the olive oil obviously shows its presence. The finish offers fruitier components ahead of other flavors, which reduces the closedness significantly and intensifies freshness. The mouthfeel is savory, oily and slick. It's also rather full, remarkably velvety, effervescent and smooth. Maybe also slightly Belgiany. I can imagine that the olive oil plays a key role in making the mouthfeel like what it is. This is an interesting beer that could easily be a disaster. However, it's nice and tasty. Olive oil pays its tricks neatly in the shadows and doesn't steal the show. +0.2 stars extra for thinking different.