Just saw this in Co-op today for the first time. Incredible lager!! The stuff I got looked completely different to yours. Far darker, amber colour, looks and tastes like a proper unfiltered lager. Gorgeous I live in Scotland and the Moretti here is brewed in Edinburgh, not sure about England/Wales
For the price on the ‘new’ Moretti still I don’t understand why anyone would spend so much money on it when you can get 3 bombers of Warsteiner or Krombacher for 5/£6. That’s proper beer and much cheaper 🍺
@jmt-ri6ed Sodium is essential for hydration. sodium in eltrolyt drinks like Lucozade Sport, yes... but with alcohol? I can't imagine it hydrating you in any way.
I had Moretti back in the early 10s when it was imported, and it was a cracking beer. About 2016, I picked up a bottle, and it was vile; I had a look, brewed in the UK. I now look at Aldi alternative beers. The Aldi knock off Moretti and wasn't a fan. The Rossini is my go to now...even tho I think it's french brewed. But these "Italian" beers I'd say Rossini
I've been drinking a lot of Birra Moretti here in Florida, and the bottles here say brewed In Italy by Heineken. It may be in my opinion one of the most clean & crisp tasting beers I've had in a long while, with no aftertaste and no funky smell. I'd love to try their other versions but I haven't had any luck finding them here yet. But it is a great beer to drink during a hot Florida summer.
Makes no sense to me, can’t we just have the proper beer brewed in Italy and pay more for the imported version, rather than the UK breweries trying to replicate something they can never achieve ?
You can thank Brexit for that. All the hassle, cost and red tape for importing goods isn't worth it when they can set up shop in the UK and produce substandard versions for less cost.
August 2024 and Tesco are doing Sale Di Mare 660ml x 3 on Clubcard for £6, or £2 per 660ml bottle. The beer definitely looks unfiltered, and I like it quite a lot
I did the same when I went to Prague, took a bottle of UK brewed staropramen with me in my suitcase and compared it to Czech brewed staropramen and its many variants. No surprise the Czech brewed stuff was delightful even in the cans, didn’t break the bank and didn’t punish you with a hangover the next day. The UK brewed on the other hand metallic, farty, puts you into your overdraft and gives you a dreadful hangover.
I don't understand these big breweries....they dumb the original beer down, then release a premium version, possibly because sales are sliding. Stella, Kronenbourg and now Moretti. It shows it is possible to brew a better lager in the UK, I might try these, the salt style interests me....
Picked a bottle of Sale Di Mare today, drinking now with a meal of pasta and fish cakes. It actually works well, not salty at all, goes well with food and is a tasty beer. I got a 660ml for £2 it was on offer and bought in Scotland.
Saal-e dee Mar-e But not 'Ay', the e is like the e in the middle of bet. Tut tut Simon, you need to invest in same blank widgeted beer glasses for testing. If you're going to Italy, take Poretti and compare it with Italian Poretti
Just the thing after COVID: it's hard to get a proper taste of anything in UK. Occasionally we might feel/taste something of value. Just to say, sitting with a salty moretti, it's pleasant, it's kinda clear in expression... Could say no much of extras in either way. It's a straight lined beer, as for my taste. One more: 10 years ago in Italy for my first solo trip. Get moretti in Rome ... What a great impression that beer made on me, membering that day and feels had while drinking birra - it's was top class taste of traditional lager ever drunk. Guessing it's more of internal state and also environmental (time place etc) issues that bring those feelings.
The salt can change the taste as it's one of the tastes your tongue can detect (salt, sweet, sour, bitter, umami) all other 'flavours' come through the nose. Try brewing two cups of instant coffee (your choice of brand) with close enough the same amount of granules. Add a small pinch (one eigth level teaspoon) of salt to one and then add a teaspoon of sugar to both, no milk. Then compare and the salted one will taste better as it wakes up your taste buds along with the sugar and the salt kills off some of the bitterness.
Something very strange has happened to the Sale di Mare version. For a year it's been my favourite supermarket lager. Like you say, it didn't look unfiltered, but it had a great mouth feel and a lovely taste. The last two times I've had it the opposite is true - it looks unfiltered (it even has bits floating around in it) but the taste and mouth-feel are no good at all. It's almost like they made it unfiltered looking in compensation for cheapening it. It's genuinely amazing how bad this new version is and that they thought we wouldn't notice it's now thin and horrible tasting. My rating has gone from 9 to about 2.
I’d much sooner them bring the real Moretti back that was brewed in Italy. Back when they stopped importing Moretti I mangaged to buy the last few 660ml bottles from Tesco. I drunk one back to back with the then new British brewed Morretti and the Italian Moretti had a much more rounded deeper satisfying flavour. The British Moretti is as about as Italian as a Vindaloo curry. If we must drink Britsh beer and there is nothing wrong with the real thing I would sugest going for something like Fullers. For the first time in ages I had Fullers Honey beer last night and I had forgotten how good it was, a revelation. Its on offer at Waitrose at the moment but it sells out fast. Cheers 🍺
So do Italy serve a moretti that is brewed in Italy ?? Why cant we buy this in the UK for perhaps a more premium price. Id have thought there is plenty of us that would pay for that. Same goes for the unfiltered stella, tastes like theyve just taken the away the few things that were ok with a bottle of normal stella ?? Open to thoughts guys
Whilst it looks like there's no intention of releasing the sale di mare in Italy, it has been launched in the Netherlands, where it's a much stronger 5.5%abv.
Just trying this now as two cans came free with my wifes Hello Fresh order. Not bad at all to be fair. Slightly biased though as just had a couple of warsteiners at my local (took me ages to persuade the landlord to get it on draft, now its his biggest selling beer)
Drinking messina sale in Sicily. Was very cloudy and so nice. The moretti in Uk is disgusting. I will try the moretti Sale. Peroni is horrible too tastes like metal and gives headaches.
Almoust clear golden, white head. Hoppy, citrusy and malty aroma. Taste the same. Moderate sweet, light bitterness. Grainy, floral hints. Only very light salty hints. Just over medium body, on the dense side for a lager. Average carbonation. Ok, I can imagin to be very enjoyable during Italian summer.
Why salt?? We eat salty stuff for an aperitivo so that it’s nice to drink the beer with that… but salty beer doesn’t really make sense to me. Im drinking it now and i need to drink another beer with it because i get thirsty.
Finally tried it after a mate said it was cracking. I thought it was horrible. I think all the unfiltered lagers are gross though. They give me terrible gut rot.
True that! Mainstream British-brewed commercial stuff is usually overly-sweet, insipid, weak bilgewater. I try to stick to 6% minimum and up, at least there's actually some character with the higher ABV's.
I watch a few of your videos from time to time and I'd class you an expert in beer. An odd observation, you poured the beer into an angled glass, as I do. I have seen people saying how when poured in directly (causing a big head) this gets rid of unwanted gas. What's your opinion?
Yeah I used to drink the imported stuff on hot days in summer but it isn't a great lager. The UK "Fake" Moretti is pretty poor but on a hot day I wouldn't say no to one. Better than Carling or Fosters. Much prefer a Camden Hells!
I can see the Sale Di Mare being very popular with the sort of people who pay £18 for smashed avocado on artisinal sourdough bread for brunch and have ironic beards.
Brewed in Yorkshire by Heineken. Not sold in Italy, tastes awful and it’s basically a regular lager. It is not even unfiltered as they claim (see real unfiltered Italian lagers like Ichnusa Non Filtrata). It’s an awful marketing thing, I had to try it just to understand myself how awful it could be. I was not disappointed
Drinking the salt one now, did not realise was salt, thought just unfiltered, reminds me of when you get a mouthfull of seawater when swimming... horrible beer!, normal one not that bad, even though usual uk brewed rubbish!
That is not Moretti!!! I've had the Italian Moretti and it's a completely different beer! The people in this country need to wake up! Poor quality British brewed Lager once again!
Just saw this in Co-op today for the first time. Incredible lager!! The stuff I got looked completely different to yours. Far darker, amber colour, looks and tastes like a proper unfiltered lager. Gorgeous
I live in Scotland and the Moretti here is brewed in Edinburgh, not sure about England/Wales
For the price on the ‘new’ Moretti still I don’t understand why anyone would spend so much money on it when you can get 3 bombers of Warsteiner or Krombacher for 5/£6. That’s proper beer and much cheaper 🍺
Very good point 👍👍🍺🍺
Exactly right
Even the 4 for 3 on traditional ales like Whitstable Bay, Tommy Taylor, Black Sheep etc are fine beers ! 👌
@@bizzclub8622 I agree but then who drinks beer with Italian food? Wine is surely the obvious choice?
@@dansharpe2364 Nah mate beer and pizza is a brilliant pairing
Imagine the hangover after drinking a salty Moretti... Imagine the dehydration... You'd wake up the next day looking like E.T.
Laughed out loud at the et thing 😂😂😂😂
😂 that's funny
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hope you realise the salt does the opposite, the sodium and trace minerals will hydrate you, albeit thats still equalled out by the alcohol
@jmt-ri6ed Sodium is essential for hydration. sodium in eltrolyt drinks like Lucozade Sport, yes... but with alcohol? I can't imagine it hydrating you in any way.
I had Moretti back in the early 10s when it was imported, and it was a cracking beer. About 2016, I picked up a bottle, and it was vile; I had a look, brewed in the UK.
I now look at Aldi alternative beers. The Aldi knock off Moretti and wasn't a fan. The Rossini is my go to now...even tho I think it's french brewed.
But these "Italian" beers I'd say Rossini
I've been drinking a lot of Birra Moretti here in Florida, and the bottles here say brewed In Italy by Heineken. It may be in my opinion one of the most clean & crisp tasting beers I've had in a long while, with no aftertaste and no funky smell. I'd love to try their other versions but I haven't had any luck finding them here yet. But it is a great beer to drink during a hot Florida summer.
Makes no sense to me, can’t we just have the proper beer brewed in Italy and pay more for the imported version, rather than the UK breweries trying to replicate something they can never achieve ?
Absolutely 👌
They even sell British import Estella in New Zealand 🇳🇿 why?? once I read that information , it went straight back to where it came from 🤮
You can thank Brexit for that. All the hassle, cost and red tape for importing goods isn't worth it when they can set up shop in the UK and produce substandard versions for less cost.
August 2024 and Tesco are doing Sale Di Mare 660ml x 3 on Clubcard for £6, or £2 per 660ml bottle. The beer definitely looks unfiltered, and I like it quite a lot
I did the same when I went to Prague, took a bottle of UK brewed staropramen with me in my suitcase and compared it to Czech brewed staropramen and its many variants. No surprise the Czech brewed stuff was delightful
even in the cans, didn’t break the bank and didn’t punish you with a hangover the next day. The UK brewed on the other hand metallic, farty, puts you into your overdraft and gives you a dreadful hangover.
I don't understand these big breweries....they dumb the original beer down, then release a premium version, possibly because sales are sliding.
Stella, Kronenbourg and now Moretti. It shows it is possible to brew a better lager in the UK, I might try these, the salt style interests me....
I must admit UK Birra Moretti is a bit of a guilty 3-for-£6 pleasure of mine - looking forward to trying this Sale Di Mare!
Picked a bottle of Sale Di Mare today, drinking now with a meal of pasta and fish cakes. It actually works well, not salty at all, goes well with food and is a tasty beer. I got a 660ml for £2 it was on offer and bought in Scotland.
Try the Peroni red when you go to Italy, it's very nice 👍🏻
Just got back from Naples yesterday, and yes, it’s not bad. Pretty much given up on U.K. brewed ‘continental’ beers now.
Half the enjoyment of watching this review was Si totally butchering the pronunciation of 'Sale di mare' 😆
I would definitely be interested in a side to side with the Italian one
Saal-e dee Mar-e
But not 'Ay', the e is like the e in the middle of bet.
Tut tut Simon, you need to invest in same blank widgeted beer glasses for testing.
If you're going to Italy, take Poretti and compare it with Italian Poretti
Fuck off... lol just kidding. It's leviosaaa not levioser 😘
Just the thing after COVID: it's hard to get a proper taste of anything in UK. Occasionally we might feel/taste something of value. Just to say, sitting with a salty moretti, it's pleasant, it's kinda clear in expression... Could say no much of extras in either way. It's a straight lined beer, as for my taste. One more: 10 years ago in Italy for my first solo trip. Get moretti in Rome ... What a great impression that beer made on me, membering that day and feels had while drinking birra - it's was top class taste of traditional lager ever drunk. Guessing it's more of internal state and also environmental (time place etc) issues that bring those feelings.
Tesco currently doing free Moretti Pint glass with a four pack of this Sale Di Mare with Clubcard while stocks last 👍
You need to shake the bottle a little bit for the unfiltered. Its on the bottom of the bottle
The salt can change the taste as it's one of the tastes your tongue can detect (salt, sweet, sour, bitter, umami) all other 'flavours' come through the nose. Try brewing two cups of instant coffee (your choice of brand) with close enough the same amount of granules. Add a small pinch (one eigth level teaspoon) of salt to one and then add a teaspoon of sugar to both, no milk. Then compare and the salted one will taste better as it wakes up your taste buds along with the sugar and the salt kills off some of the bitterness.
I heard this just today from a very educated Sparky at work ! 😂👍
The four pack now comes with a very nice branded pint glass for free.
Nucleated too!
Hopefully this comes out on the Krups Sub. Then we will get the Italian stuff.
The Baffo D'oro at 4.8% and La Rossa at 7.2% are good. Not a fan of either of these two though.
Simon just been to tesco and they have a promo where you get a very nice glass for free with a 4 pack...have a look!
Something very strange has happened to the Sale di Mare version. For a year it's been my favourite supermarket lager. Like you say, it didn't look unfiltered, but it had a great mouth feel and a lovely taste. The last two times I've had it the opposite is true - it looks unfiltered (it even has bits floating around in it) but the taste and mouth-feel are no good at all. It's almost like they made it unfiltered looking in compensation for cheapening it. It's genuinely amazing how bad this new version is and that they thought we wouldn't notice it's now thin and horrible tasting. My rating has gone from 9 to about 2.
I’d much sooner them bring the real Moretti back that was brewed in Italy. Back when they stopped importing Moretti I mangaged to buy the last few 660ml bottles from Tesco. I drunk one back to back with the then new British brewed Morretti and the Italian Moretti had a much more rounded deeper satisfying flavour. The British Moretti is as about as Italian as a Vindaloo curry. If we must drink Britsh beer and there is nothing wrong with the real thing I would sugest going for something like Fullers. For the first time in ages I had Fullers Honey beer last night and I had forgotten how good it was, a revelation. Its on offer at Waitrose at the moment but it sells out fast. Cheers 🍺
Try ichnusa non filtrata,cracking beer
The Sale Di Mare is now available in 660 ml bottles on the same 3 for £5/6 offers. No longer overpriced!
So do Italy serve a moretti that is brewed in Italy ?? Why cant we buy this in the UK for perhaps a more premium price. Id have thought there is plenty of us that would pay for that. Same goes for the unfiltered stella, tastes like theyve just taken the away the few things that were ok with a bottle of normal stella ??
Open to thoughts guys
Whilst it looks like there's no intention of releasing the sale di mare in Italy, it has been launched in the Netherlands, where it's a much stronger 5.5%abv.
Just trying this now as two cans came free with my wifes Hello Fresh order. Not bad at all to be fair. Slightly biased though as just had a couple of warsteiners at my local (took me ages to persuade the landlord to get it on draft, now its his biggest selling beer)
Drinking messina sale in Sicily. Was very cloudy and so nice. The moretti in Uk is disgusting. I will try the moretti Sale. Peroni is horrible too tastes like metal and gives headaches.
Here in the Netherlands the Birra Moretti Sale Di Mare is 5.5% ABV mister Simon
I think it is better than the original Birra Moretti
It looked poor on the pour
I thought InBev weren't as bad as they own Camden Town but pretty much leave them alone to maintain the quality ? 🤔
I tried this and 1664 blanc recently, I quite liked this, found the Blanc too citrus for me
The blanc is still made in France
Almoust clear golden, white head. Hoppy, citrusy and malty aroma. Taste the same. Moderate sweet, light bitterness. Grainy, floral hints. Only very light salty hints. Just over medium body, on the dense side for a lager. Average carbonation. Ok, I can imagin to be very enjoyable during Italian summer.
More UK brewed trade description act swarf.
Might as well buy Carling - at least it's cheaper & it doesn't pretend to be a product that it's not
Why salt?? We eat salty stuff for an aperitivo so that it’s nice to drink the beer with that… but salty beer doesn’t really make sense to me. Im drinking it now and i need to drink another beer with it because i get thirsty.
Moretti rymes to Spaghetti...Salted beer, I don't want it here...🤔
Had the Birra Messinas salt beer in Sicily two years ago on holiday 👌
Sam Smith pure brew organic lager is the best UK brewed lager by a mile
can't believe that the brewers of continental beers brewed in uk don't seem to kick off about it.. It's their reputation at stake..
They don't care as long as it sells by the bucketload, which unfortunatly it does ! 😡
Finally tried it after a mate said it was cracking.
I thought it was horrible. I think all the unfiltered lagers are gross though. They give me terrible gut rot.
what the fuck is gut rot?
True that! Mainstream British-brewed commercial stuff is usually overly-sweet, insipid, weak bilgewater. I try to stick to 6% minimum and up, at least there's actually some character with the higher ABV's.
I watch a few of your videos from time to time and I'd class you an expert in beer.
An odd observation, you poured the beer into an angled glass, as I do. I have seen people saying how when poured in directly (causing a big head) this gets rid of unwanted gas. What's your opinion?
Thats called a Czech Pour, worth googling it if you have time
I’ve tried half a Cristal de sale and half normal one ain’t too bad 🍺 👍🏻
Never been a huge fan of Italian beer, British brewed or not, the stuff I’ve drank in Italy has been drinkable but nothing special.
My view - UK breweries cannot brew lager
Not true, Beak Dest Pils is probably the best lager I have tried ! 👌
Jason sorry I meant to say main stream breweries, I agree many small breweries in the UK produce very acceptable lagers
You’ve clearly never tried Carling…
How does adding salt make your beer taste better? It's like those beers that add hot peppers to them. WTF, how can a hot beer be refreshing?
Haven't touched Moretti since it became UK brewed. It's dead to me.
It’s vileAnd in my opinion original
Moratti from Italy ain’t much better. The dark moretti however tho incredible
Yeah I used to drink the imported stuff on hot days in summer but it isn't a great lager. The UK "Fake" Moretti is pretty poor but on a hot day I wouldn't say no to one. Better than Carling or Fosters. Much prefer a Camden Hells!
“Now I’m a Madri man!”
@@ilcorvo9559 🤦♂🤣
Same here
Not touched it since it became UK brewed
One of the best lagers made in the UK is Wye Valley
Is this basically a Birra Messina UK rip off? Strange
I can see the Sale Di Mare being very popular with the sort of people who pay £18 for smashed avocado on artisinal sourdough bread for brunch and have ironic beards.
Nah, we tend to buy proper craft beer from a bottle shop 😅
😂😂😂
its so hard to find decent continental lager at the minute, its all absolute shite. the sea salt unfiltered is slightly better but its still shit
looks like a gimmick ngl
Why do British brewed mass lagers give you such a bad headache the next day?
Too much carbonation. Its chemicals that give you headache more than alcohol itself
Tried this yesterday, got no salt taste whatsoever 🤷🏼♂️
It’s just you
@@louisbeerreviews8964 Or is it just you?
I tried it and could definitely taste the salt, as could my other half. It's not strong though, and I don't think you'd want it to be.
'its brewed by Heineken'....im out!
Im not a huge fan of moretti uk brewed or the Italian incredibly overrated beer no matter what. Moretti la rossa however delicious
Brewed in Yorkshire by Heineken. Not sold in Italy, tastes awful and it’s basically a regular lager. It is not even unfiltered as they claim (see real unfiltered Italian lagers like Ichnusa Non Filtrata). It’s an awful marketing thing, I had to try it just to understand myself how awful it could be. I was not disappointed
Drinking the salt one now, did not realise was salt, thought just unfiltered, reminds me of when you get a mouthfull of seawater when swimming... horrible beer!, normal one not that bad, even though usual uk brewed rubbish!
Salt on the nose? :D
That is not Moretti!!! I've had the Italian Moretti and it's a completely different beer! The people in this country need to wake up! Poor quality British brewed Lager once again!
Both Rubbish for my tastes! the new moretti is a joke who wants seasoning on the lager 😂
Italian beer aint the one
Moretti is muck
Not bad at all tasted worst
Terrible beer