Tripping Flowers
Microbirrificio Opperbacco

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From:
Microbirrificio Opperbacco
 
Italy
Style:
Saison
ABV:
6.3%
Score:
Needs more ratings
Avg:
3.47 | pDev: 12.39%
Reviews:
5
Ratings:
7
Status:
Active
Rated:
May 13, 2019
Added:
Oct 02, 2012
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Reviewed by Beginner2 from Illinois

3.52/5  rDev +1.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
This is a good beer to accompany a sandwich.
Tripping Flowers certainly Looks good, inviting. Smells are floral. Tastes really need a richer yeast (easy to say, hard to do for a young micro.) Bubbles and and spicing clear the palate.

My second from Opperbacco, so I finally found their website and was impressed (although still no English button, so slow reading and lots of guessing.) I was impressed by their artistic mystique that they impart to brewing... which is what great brewing is. Although typical of the Italians, greatness is not in the show but the delivery. And if Opperbacco sticks with it for a while, they may be a good-to-great brewer in the Belgian tradition... if they get a better yeast.
May 13, 2019
 
Rated: 3.73 by DispyDnb from England

Oct 05, 2015
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Reviewed by MUTINY from Virginia

3.96/5  rDev +14.1%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
Quick review. Dry nose with some honey & a hint of hops. Cedary, flowery, woody on the palate. Beautiful to look at, nice and cloudy. Great carb, easy drinking with heavy dry finish.
Apr 21, 2015
 
Rated: 2.8 by ygtbsm94 from Utah

Oct 02, 2014
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Reviewed by spicelab from Australia

2.84/5  rDev -18.2%
look: 4 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.5
Turbid apricot with a hefty white head. Good staying power and strong lace lattice.

Nose is dominated by musty plastic phenolics that are too close to dirt to be appetising. There's some sweet malt and estery notes battling behind it.

Flavours still suffer from the same, but less so. Some honey sweetness punches through a little more and is joined by peppery hay notes.

Light to medium with above average carbonation. An odd to place dry bitterness that has more in common with a Pale Ale/IPA than a Saison.

Unsure what to make of this. The dominant dry, plasticy yeast character really kneecaps what might have been an interesting beer.
Nov 30, 2012
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Reviewed by Parrotshake from Australia

3.7/5  rDev +6.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
Purchased for a friend who was nice enough to share with me based entirely on the fact that I thought they'd like the bottle. Pours orange-amber with a decent foamy head, good lacing on the glasses. Smell of grass, wheat, pepper, phenolic.

Taste is chalky/minerally, bright with a slight sourness, floral & herbal with a light hint of anise or something along those lines. Clean but with a building bitterness as you drink more.

Well-carbed, dry, quite drinkable. Lacking a certain X-factor that would push it to the next level but a quality saison from a brewery I'd never heard of. Good show.
Nov 28, 2012
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Reviewed by CrazyDavros from Australia

3.72/5  rDev +7.2%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
Pours amber with a lasting head.
Nose shows floral, grassy, spicy and herbal hops along with some Belgian-like spicy phenols. Some light malt underneath provideding some sweetness.
Similar flavours in terms of hops, big spicy and herbal notes. The Belgian notes are still there too, giving it a saison character. Some sweet clean malt underneath followed by an assertive bitterness.
Nice moderately-high carbonation.
Pretty solid stuff.
Oct 02, 2012
Tripping Flowers from Microbirrificio Opperbacco
Beer rating: 3.47 out of 5 with 7 ratings