Founders Bad Habit Quad

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

Bottled. Orange coloured. Unclear. Dense light brown head. Perfumed, fruity, spiced and bananaish aroma. Flavour of alchol, light yeast, sweetness and spice. Some fruity notes. Is medium bodied. Has a dense alcohol end. Some spicy notes. Quite nice.

Bottle (12oz). Poured clear bubbly dark amber with a decent lastin foamy head, only a bit of lacing. First impression of the aroma is big, sweet, caramelized candy malt, but there is an interesting dry herbal character too - and it hides the 10.5% VERY well - perhaps a little under-complex. Taste - nice mix of strong alcohol, roast candy malt, spices and herbal hops - it never quite gels, but it’s pretty good. Light body, alcoholic and slick, nicely carbonated, a bit of a booze-bitter linger. Decent effort.

Bottle shared with tupalev -- my bottle. Pours a clear bubbly amber-red with an average size off-white head. Sweet aroma, but in a good way, not too sweet -- it’s just right. Flavour’s sweet with caramel malt, yeast, fruit and a bitter finish. Alcohol’s well hidden. Medium bodied. Very good version of the style, I really liked it.

Bottle courtesy of and shared with Blankboy. Sweet cotton candy like aroma - really nice! Dark reddish brown, decent sized white head. Really nice taste - dry, sweet, yeasty. Complex, alcohol present, yet drinkable. Maybe it was because of some of the crap we had before it, but man, this one was really really good. Certainly one of the better American attempts at this style for me anyway. Sipped during the Jacob episode of Lost!

Bottle: Reddish caramel, thick haze, some sediment, large foamy off-white head, fairly sticky lacing.   Spicy, large banana bread nose... seems more in tune with a German Hefe than a Belgian Quad.   Perhaps a bit of clove as well.   Spicy on the tongue... not sharp but instead a little dull but quite prominant.   Heavy banana bread as well.   Where is the dark pitted fruit?   Appears a bit as it warms, but still it remains secondary to the spiciness and banana bread.   Definitely malty, on the sweeter side, but not as full bodied as you would think for a Quad.   Alcohol is fairly well hidden.   Big lingering finish of banana bread, cloves, and soft dark pitted fruit.   Not real bready either.   Decent beer, but so different that I can’t help but think its not what Founders really intended.   Drinkable, enjoyable, but a Quad?   I don’t think so... Thanks Paul for the opportunity to try this one!

12 oz. Little to no aroma, appearance is orange and very cloudy. Strong fruity sweetness that finishes sweet as well. Palate is too thin stylistically.

Pours mahogany brown with a rocky tan head. Smells initially fruity with some lemony touches, cloves, cumin, misc. herbs and caramel. Tastes of earthy malt, oak and hints of spice. Bitterness is apparent on this one. Not Bad.

Aged 1 year. Pours ruby orange into a trappist glass. Head does not exist, but white micro skims the rim. Extreme bubblegum and alcohol aromas. Syrupy sweet tart caramel and a chalky lasting sour finish.