Founders Bad Habit Quad

Brewed by Founders Brewing Company
Style: Abt/Quadrupel
Grand Rapids, Michigan USA

Pours a reddish coppery color with a medium white-beige head. Aroma of candied malts, banana, dark fruit and cotton candy. Taste is malty sweet with hints of banana, nectarines, brown sugar and cotton candy. Very nice and quite underrated.

12 oz. bottle. Pours a hazy amber color with a small, dense off white head. The aroma is sweet malts, fruity - I get peaches, light citrus, and light banana, yeast, and some alcohol. The flavor is medium sweet with a fruitiness that is enjoyable. The finish is quite dry and takes away from the fruit. Some alcohol is noticeable. Full bodied. I think it is a bit underrated.

Thanks to egajdzis for breaking this open... Appears a hazy, orange toned brown with a small, off white head that fades into a small cap. Spotty lacing is left around the glass. Smell is yeasty, boozy, with notes of peach, nectarines, apricots, caramel, and brown sugar. Taste echoes the aromas with a standout raisin flavor. Mouthfeel is medium bodied, fruity, yeasty, boozy, sweet up front with a semi-dry finish.

12oz bottle shared couresy of egajdzis. Poured medium and clear amber color with a small sized off white head. Aromas of dark fruits (plums & raisins), citrus, and caramel. Tastes follow with orange peels. Medium alcohol burn.

Poured a reddish amber color with a thin, off white head that left light lacing on the glass. Aroma of caramel malts, light fruits, nuts, and wood. Taste of caramel malts, and toffee, tart citrus, dried fruits, with plums, raisins, and a fair amount of alcohol in the finish.

Thanks to egajdzis for sharing this one. Pours a translucent orange amber with a smaller off white bubbly head. Aroma of dark fruits, mixed citrus, caramel, candy sweetness and some alcohol. Flavor of dark fruits, some hop flavor, citrus, caramel and some light lingering bitterness.

Date: 01/10/2007
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting

muddy orange, scant head, sweet fruity aroma with apricots and candy, good fruit character, drier than the aroma would suggest, nice balancing bitterness,
-------- /> Date: 07/26/2007
Mode: bottle
Source: roadtrip

pours with a creamy beige head that fades away, touch of fleeting alcohol in the aroma and some light citrus along with the previously mentioned sweet fruits, the flavor is still dry and fruity but now picking up some tart oaky bret character, is this a bret beer? that would explain the dryness, eventually some sweetness does show up to complement the fruits,

Aroma: 8/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 7/10; Overall: 15/20
Rating: 3.7/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: **4

Very heavy taste. Folks here say "like brandy" and that may be close to the truth. Strong alcohol taste.