La Trappe Quadrupel

Brewed by De Koningshoeven (Bavaria - Netherlands)
Style: Abt/Quadrupel
Tilburg, Netherlands

Small bottle, poured into their chalice . Reddish amber. Apples, berries and barely-ripe stone fruit. Fresh bread, earth, grass. Mellow. The alcohol is quite prominent but not offensively so. The carbonation is soft. The finish is persistently bitter and complex. I was ready to hate this, but I think I’ll go and get some to put away for a while.

Dark reddish brown with a small beige head. Aroma is simplistic caramell malty with light green apple esters. Flavour is very sweet caramell with notes of dried fruit. Simple, straight forward and too sweet to be considered drinkable. Still ok with no flaws just not complex enough.

heavy cloying sweetness, lightly bitter, red, brown, full body, caramel, coffee, roasty,

11.2oz bottle poured into a tulip. LTQ pours nutty brown and fairly clear. The head is quite large and fluffy and just a bit off-white. The aroma on this beer is very metallic with malty undertones. Normally this indicates a beer that is too cold but this one has been warming up for quite a bit. Whew! This is a sweet beer. The body is very thick and cloying. The taste reminds me of brown and brittle leaves along with a very prominent alcohol taste. Bacon wrapped dates in a sweet sauce dominate the flavors though. I’m not overly enthusiastic about this beer.

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Poured a ruddy brown with about a finger thick white head. The smell was pleasant with aromas of plums, fruit, apricot, and a bit of that cookie bakery smell. The flavor was also nice with much of the aroma coming though in the flavor. The plums were most predominate leading towards the malty cookie flavor. This was a nice quad that offered plenty in way of complexity.

From bnensonb. Thanks again, man. This year’s bottle as a Konings Hoeven and I’m starting to wonder why I have been drinking all of those huge, hoppy beers and all of those imperial stouts. This beer pours a thick, tall head with a very dark, hazy brown liquid under. The nose is a sweet caramel-apple maltienss and the initial taste is the same. There are only slight hints of hops, and the mid palate and finish are just dry enough that this doesn’t leave a sugary-sweet after taste. This is a style that I am coming to like more and more, and I have been regularly surprised by the quality of this and other brews of its sort. Another keeper!

33cl bottle - shape and label different (and classier!) than the one pictured. Pours a nice hazy amber with a big, creamy off-white head with good retention and decent lacing. Aroma of yeast, orchard fruit and malt. Medium carbonation, smooth mouth feel. Heavy-bodied Belgian, err, Dutch, ale. Flavour is, again, orchard fruit, some caramel, and raisins. Nice citric note to improve drinkability. Different herbal spices in there, too. Sweet, but not overly so - and the finish is sour and dry. Lingering sour after taste, too. Alcohol is present (well, at 10 % abv), but not overwhelming. Agreeable Trappist quadrupel, "healthier" than some overly sweet dubbels and tripels I know from Belgium. Sessionability is, at this abv, necessarily limited. Complex, nicely balanced beer.