Our Tastes-- DFH Birra Etrusca Bronze

Birra Etrusca, was one of the "Ancient Ales" I had to try as soon as it came out. A triple collaboration between DFH, Birra del Borgo and Baladin (hence the stamps at the bottom of the label) it's an Italian ale that set historians on their ears with regards to perhaps wine not being the penultimate drink of choice in the past. Color is a serious orange with extremely flat head and complex taste profile. Nose has a sweet floral honey with hints of white grapes. The taste is sweet up front like a dessert wine with a touch of tartness from what I believe to be nectarines (ultimately pomegranates, go figure). Check out the ingredient list on this one in the link, Ethiopian myrrh resin, 3 types of honey and gentian root for bittering just to name a few. Yeah, that's why the taste was an 8.5abv conundrum! I'll give Sam C. this, he may have tons of archaeologists out there sharing rare recipes from millennia past (this one 2800 years ago) that pretty much result in the same overall abv'd bevvy with some artistic license on the final product with a persimmon here and some goat grass there, but I keep coming back to try his wackiness each and every time. Birra Etrusca is even being made overseas by the other breweries but in terra cotta and wood vessels, (DFH did bronze). That's marketing. Wonder if I have another bottle of this tucked away somewhere?