Țuiple'Up (Tuica BA)
Oriel Beer in Bucharest, București - Ilfov, Romania 🇷🇴
Collab with: HopSaSamBelgian Style - Tripel Special
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7.21
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Alengrin (11561) reviewed Țuiple'Up (Tuica BA) from Oriel Beer 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Brandy-barrel aged tripel with lemongrass, an unusual idea concocted by Belgian HopSaSam and Romanian Oriel, tasted at Gents Bierfestival. Thick and frothy, papery lacing, egg-white, stable head on a misty orangey peach blonde beer. Aroma of ripe peach, banana, honey, sweetbread, pear, gin or indeed some kind of plum brandy (slivovitz), cloves and other vague spicy notes but not really lemongrass, at least not explicitly so. Sweet onset, banana, apricot and peach, light sourish note perhaps attributable to the lemongrass which otherwise largely fails to make an impression, medium fizz, supple and fluffy sweetbready and very lightly caramelly maltiness, light floral hop bitterness; spicy-phenolic effects in the finish, quite explicitly so and no doubt accentuated by the Romanian brandy factor, which also provides a clear brandy-like colour to the finish, as well as a lot of heat. Sweet tripel in its core, the brandy effect being clearly present and fitting in well, but I think this beer may improve and become more distinguished with a longer time in the barrel; as for the lemongrass, I hardly spotted it, so if the brewers think this ingredient works in this flavour composition, then next time I would recommend to add it a bit more generously. Somewhat underwhelming compared with HopSaSam's own and highly profiled creations here in Belgium, but still a fine beer nonetheless, certainly when seen from a Romanian point of view...
tderoeck (22679) reviewed Țuiple'Up (Tuica BA) from Oriel Beer 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Oriel x HopSaSam Țuiple'Up (Tuica BA) (by Oriel Beer):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 13/20, MyTotalScore: 3.2/5
18/VIII/19 - 33cl bottle from HopSaSam @ Gents Bierfestival, BB: n/a - (2019-1265)
Clear orange beer, small creamy soapy irregular off-white head, unstable, falls down quickly. Aroma: very fruity, floral, bit soapy, lots of wine, dried fruits, some fennel, yeasty, sweet. MF: ok carbon, medium to light body. Taste: bit yeasty, very soapy, floral, soft acidity, floral, weird. Aftertaste: yeast, coriander, banana peel, soft bitterness.
Sloefmans (15338) reviewed Țuiple'Up (Tuica BA) from Oriel Beer 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Transparant thick head over orangey-copperish clear beer. Quite spicy nose, dried herbs, but also pharmaceutical. Again a pharmaceutical touch, not unpleasant, maybe a tad paracetamol. Citrus, citrusrind. Medium bodied; feels light. Good carbonation. Pharmaceutical, rather than barrels...
madmitch76 (40205) reviewed Țuiple'Up (Tuica BA) from Oriel Beer 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
24th July 2019
Opens lively this one, not a gusher but don't open on your best cloth cover sofa and pour carefully. Hazy orange beer, mahoooosive bubbly pale cream colour head. Fluffy palate, crisp and semi dry. The various array of Romanian fruit brandy's matured in the various wood barrels provide a wonderfully complex beer. Floral fruits and floral bright citrus, layer upon layer. Floral lemon and subtle but bright tangerine and orange. A little plum brandy in there, light as a feather. Trace of cherry. Soft floral apple and pear overtones. Little candy fruits. Modest floral bitterness on the soft finish. Probably covered about 35% of what is going on here. There are many more subtler layers going on. Never heard of this brandy but it comes in an interesting variety of flavours and wood treatments. Whoever thought of using these and blending in to a beer, I doff my hat. Great vision and great blending. Could drink this until I fell over and still find new things to gibber about.
Sebletitje (15832) reviewed Țuiple'Up (Tuica BA) from Oriel Beer 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Bouteille 33cl, Bottled 24/11/2018, BB 2 years @ Niamey Craft Beer tasting, thanks Madalin. Light gusher. Couleur dorée sur léger voile, col assez conséquent et tenace dû à l'ouverture mais sans signe d'infection. Arôme donne de suite des effluves rappelant la palincă avec de premier abord des notes de pommes vertes et un léger coté prunes. Je retrouve aussi des pointes de levures belges dont des esters assez généreux qui augmentent le caractère de triple. Houblonné léger en rétro axés sur un côté noble. Palais est dans la même lignée, pour avoir dégusté la palincă à plusieurs reprises, l'usage de bois de nombreuses variétés vient ajouter une complexité en bouche tout en alternant entre le côté léger et acerbe de pomme, et une petite douceur de prune, ici la poire reste plus discrète. Sur la fin, léger effet de sucre candi. Très belle surprise de cette petite brasserie roumaine qui semble se spécialiser dans les styles belges.
dnicolaescu (3912) reviewed Țuiple'Up (Tuica BA) from Oriel Beer 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Gusher. Really cloudy amber out of a sedated bottle, huge frothy head. The aroma is quite bright and fruity - fresh and dried plums and apricots, fermented fruit tartness, gentle Țuica notes (could be taken for plum marmalade by an uninitiated drinker), some toasted caramel rounds things up. Light woody/basement notes. All in all - a pretty round and mellow aroma. Tastes even better - a dry alcoholic start without the ethanol burn, subtle fruity tartness, followed by stale dried fruit subdued sweetness. The right (high and massaging) carbonation, the right (dangerously easy drinking) body. Haven't had a tripel this good in a while.