Founders Bad Habit Quad

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

12 oz. bottle cellared approx. 1 year. pours an orange copper color with a soda-like fizzy head that diminishes quickly and settles with little or no head. Banana hits you first in the aroma, then ripe fruit subtle toffee and alcohol. Starts with a blast of resiny sweet grape, some banana, brandy, some peppery spice, and finishes long and alcholic. Will age the last bottle 1 more year to hopefully mellow.

Bottle @ Publick House, Brookline, MA. Wow, this is by far the most unique quad I’ve ever tasted. Pours a deep red color with a slight white head. Aroma is of grapes and a mixture of other things, such as some detectable malt and pine notes. The taste begins with a bit of a grape, and then it explodes into this incredible complexity of fruit, spice, and sugar flavors with a smooth mouthfeel the whole way through. Off-beat, but a phenomenal brew. I can’t wait to have it again.

Fizzy head, amber/coppery body, thin yet patterned lacing. Walnut in the nose, then this sensational dry and sweet like apricot brandy taste with concord grapes and smooth finish.

Bottle. Cloudy copper colour with a little head. Aroma of fruit, estere, banana, and spices. Flavour of estere, such as banana, tropical fruit and ends up very fruity and little alcoholic.

This beer was quite confusing to me. I think that this was the first time I got these kinda of flavors in just one beer. In the nose there was that fake, Concord grape-syrup like smell, big soapy notes like sticking your nose in a bottle of Palmolive, rotten fruit and stinging alcohol. Appearance was a light amber color, mostly clear with a small white head. Mouthfeel was medium thick, a bit on the syrupy side. Flavor was a bunch of bubblegum, like the kind you’d get with baseball cards when you were a kid. There was some cherry-cough syrup in there, a bunch of alcohol (guess they forgot to hide it) an underlying dark bananna character which made it tough to drink. It could have been tons worse. It wasn’t good, but far from being offensive. See my review of Skibsol for offensive.

Appearance: Pours a light, hazy copper body with no real head or lacing to speak of. Smell: Stinging aroma of concord grapes and rubbing alcohol. Quite similar to a cheap, well brandy. Taste: Harsh and astringent, to say the least. Hints of dry, stale bubblegum mixed sweetened fortified wine paint a picture of a beer gone horribly awry. However, any amiss flavors are immediately drowned out by the blisteringly hot alcohol burn. In a word: Yeesh! Mouthfeel: Thin-bodied, with an oily, sticky mouthfeel. Drinkability: All of the wonderous qualities that make for a truly delicious quadruple were totally abandoned for this brew. Definitely the most un-quad "quad" I have ever tasted, and a real stomach churner, too.

(Bottle 35,5 cl) Courtesy of Sammy. 9.8% ABV in my version. Pours a hazy, amber golden with an off-white head. Distinct - but fresh - aroma of banana and yeast. Full-bodied, sweetish, very fruity - some overripe fruit - diacetyl, banana and a very warming alcohol in the finish. No real bitterness. Severely underrated - this really was a delicious brew. 310507

A hazy dark amber beer with a thin orange head. The aroma is overwhelmingly sweet, spicy, fruity, and perfumated - especially the peach note is extremely strong. The flavor is sweet malty with strong notes of fruit - in the over ripe end of the spectrum, combined with notes of yeast and light notes of spices.