You all got already used to our wonderful series of Quadrupel Barrel Aged. For this fourth batch, we choose to split it in two whisky barrels , each of 190 liters. The decision on which barrels to choose was simple, we tasted some whiskies in the past days and developed a pleasure in discovering all the flavors a whisky has. And oh, we discovered the peated whiskies and it was just pure chemistry.
Each of the whiskies that we choose the barrels from has a little story. We bought the first time Auchentoshan Single Malt Scotch Whisky as a present gift for a friend that was living in Spain and we went there to make a surprise for her birthday anniversary. We read a little about the whisky and we thought that it was going to be a good idea. Pleasant aromas of honey, vanilla, almonds all rounded up in a triple distilled beverage, what can you ask more, purity and taste. After tasting the first time, we were really curious about its story, so we did some research. In 1823 the distillery was established by en engineer from Greenock.

Oriel Quadrupel Mezcal Barrel Aged wins Gold Medal in London

Our beer just won big at the most Important Beer Competition in the World.
Winning a Gold European Beer Challenge Medal, is the seal of approval for established and rising beer producers. The Royal Thames Yacht Club, Knightsbridge, London was the centre of the action as the most prominent beer buyers assembled for the blind tasting.

Judges included senior representatives of Whole Foods, 67 Pall Mall, Waitrose, Savoy Grill, Coop, Intercontinental, Roka, Brown’s Hotel, The Arts Club and Bibendum.

1,000 samples from 38 countries fought head to head. High profile entrants included ABInBev, Freedom Brewery, Waldhaus, Holba, Tommy’s Brewing, Thornbridge, L.B.F., and Barcelona Beer Company.

We are just so thrilled that our beer performed so well at the European Beer Challenge 2019, we are very excited that the most significant beer buyers selected our creation from amongst the top quality Breweries in the World. We are now proudly displaying our European Beer Challenge Medals to showcase that Oriel Quadrupel Mezcal Barrel Aged is a Gold European Beer Challenge 2019 Medal Winner. And this is saying a lot.

Oriel Quadrupel Mezcal Barrel Aged was made over a year ago, the entire process lasted one year with the fermentation, barrel aging and refermentation, so yes, good things take time. Have patience and something great will happen.

And as all of our barrel aged beers, the Mezcal version is sold out from the brewery, but you can find it to taste it in one of our usual locations.

Imagine a mélange between beer and wine.

That was the concept that we had in mind when we started to get in touch with a lot of wineries from Romania. Being a small microbrewery doesn’t give you an advantage and we received a lot of negative answers from wineries that we had a lot of expectations of. But as in the beer field, in the wine business is also complicated, therefore we kept trying until some open minded people were interested enough in this collaboration. After a lot of emails sent and phone calls, we finally received some positive answer and we were happy about that.

An audacious collaboration between Oriel Beer and Wicked Barrel

If you see the light, you suddenly understand something you didn’t understand before. This quote is from Cambridge dictionary. How it can relate to our beer? Well, is very simple, because you all have a perception on an imperial stout beer and when you will try this beer, you will see that is different and you will begin to understand.
The stouts are top fermented beers, dark in color and made with roasted malts. Back in 1677, the word stout appeared for the first time in the Egerton Manuscript (a book written by Francis Henry Egerton, an Earl of Bridgewater), but it referred as a stronger beer rather than dark.

As we blink, the time flies and so was the end of 2018. We had our 1st Anniversary which was a blast, we ended our year with 8 launched beers in our portfolio and we declared ourselves happy for the year that had passed.

After concluding 2018, January 2019 came, and what a month it was. We brewed so much cool new stuff that we are eager to share with you. So the list is as follows:

• A new batch of Blond Wild with Brettanomyces (that funky, bubbly beer)
• A new batch of Saison (new recipe, super awesome taste)
• Tripel aged in Chardonnay barrel from Liliac Winery
• Dubbel aged in Merlot barrels from Liliac Winery
• Quadrupel aged in Whisky barrels, Laphroaig and Auchentoshan

And we still have some cool news around, but we will keep them secret for the moment.

At the beginning of January we launched the 2^nd batch of Quadrupel aged in Belize Rum barrels. The perfect balance between a barrel and a beer, everyone said. We are very happy how our Quadrupel series evolves and that everyone is so curious all the time to try it.

But let’s get back to some serious substance. At the end of January took place Rate Beer Best. Rate Beer is a super well known website and app where everyone makes reviews for craft beers or where you can find cool places with craft beer around you in all over the world. There are a lot of categories for this awards, from the best beers in the world, breweries, reviewers etc.