Moretti beer

It's been a few fun and distracting days since I actually drank Moretti (on Wednesday), but I did make a point of talking about it to gel my thoughts about it, so here are my recollections.

I had it, fridge temperature, in a tall, skinny beer glass with fettucine and home-made tomato-and-vegetable sauce. It's pale golden and has very little head and a moderate bubbliness. It has a bitter hoppy and grainy taste: sort of like Grolsch but maybe a bit further toward toasted on the fresh-to-toasted axis, and with some definite similarities to Molson Export. It's a light, unassuming Local Beer That Goes With Everything. Due to the grain notes and bitter hoppiness, I would pair it with starchy or savoury stuff: I just had some squash, carrot and miso soup, and it would probably go very well with that.