Bia Tiếp Den
Tulip Beer
- From:
- Tulip Beer
- Vietnam
- Style:
- European Dark Lager
- ABV:
- Not listed
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.08 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Sep 18, 2016
- Added:
- Sep 18, 2016
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Reviewed by Jugs_McGhee from Texas
3.08/5 rDev 0%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
3.08/5 rDev 0%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
Czech dark lager (Tmavy). .66L draught pour at the brewpub in Da Nang for 40000 VND.
Boasts a creamy supple off-white head atop an opaque brown-black body. Nice thick lacing stays behind as the head recedes inside the usual 2-3 minutes.
Aroma is faint, but offers dark bread, dark malts, and I suppose a fleeting hint of plum. Low aromatic intensity, with no hop presence at all. Already, this is shaping up to be a better brew than Tulip's sad attempt at a pilsner.
Creamy and medium-bodied to style, with a dark malt centric taste supported by hints of caramel and chocolate covered fruit. Finishes clean, showcasing clean lager yeast attenuation. No hop presence (to style). Bready and malty but not too heavy on the palate.
Nicely balanced albeit fairly simple. Average depth and duration of flavour.
The smooth, wet texture is apt for the style, and presents its plain flavours well.
Drinkable and enjoyable in spite of its simplicity, Tulip's Tmavy is - unlike their "pilsner" - a decent expression of the intended style, and at its reasonable price is absolutely worth trying. I'd happily revisit it, and in spite of its shortcomings it might be the best Vietnamese beer I've so far tried (Pasteur Street's impressive brews excluded). Blows all of the Hanoi brewpubs' Czech dark lagers out of the water.
Enthusiasm aside, it may be a success in the "developing" beer market that is Vietnam, but it don't hold no candle to traditional paragons of the style brewed in the Czech Republic (and it's worth noting this is actually more expensive...err, less inexpensive...than those superior expressions).
C+ (3.08) / ABOVE AVERAGE
Sep 18, 2016Boasts a creamy supple off-white head atop an opaque brown-black body. Nice thick lacing stays behind as the head recedes inside the usual 2-3 minutes.
Aroma is faint, but offers dark bread, dark malts, and I suppose a fleeting hint of plum. Low aromatic intensity, with no hop presence at all. Already, this is shaping up to be a better brew than Tulip's sad attempt at a pilsner.
Creamy and medium-bodied to style, with a dark malt centric taste supported by hints of caramel and chocolate covered fruit. Finishes clean, showcasing clean lager yeast attenuation. No hop presence (to style). Bready and malty but not too heavy on the palate.
Nicely balanced albeit fairly simple. Average depth and duration of flavour.
The smooth, wet texture is apt for the style, and presents its plain flavours well.
Drinkable and enjoyable in spite of its simplicity, Tulip's Tmavy is - unlike their "pilsner" - a decent expression of the intended style, and at its reasonable price is absolutely worth trying. I'd happily revisit it, and in spite of its shortcomings it might be the best Vietnamese beer I've so far tried (Pasteur Street's impressive brews excluded). Blows all of the Hanoi brewpubs' Czech dark lagers out of the water.
Enthusiasm aside, it may be a success in the "developing" beer market that is Vietnam, but it don't hold no candle to traditional paragons of the style brewed in the Czech Republic (and it's worth noting this is actually more expensive...err, less inexpensive...than those superior expressions).
C+ (3.08) / ABOVE AVERAGE
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