Iron Hill Oak Aged Quad

Brewed by Iron Hill Wilmington
Style: Abt/Quadrupel
Wilmington, Delaware USA

750 mL bottle received via trade with eaglefan538. First, damn! This monster pours dark brown with a small, fizzy, light brown head, mostly diminishing with spare lacing. Aroma is heavy malt (caramel, cookie, nutty), light hops (flowers), heavy yeast (leather, earth) with notes of oak, vanilla, bourbon, dates, prunes, and port. Full bodied, creamy texture, average carbonation, and a creamy finish. Long duration, moderate sweetness, light acidity and bitterness. What a well-crafted beer!

Sampled at Dickinsonbeer’s May gathering. Deep amber n color with a small lasting tan head. Aroma- molasses, some earthy yeast, dark fruits, and oak. Taste is sweet with molasses, dark fruits and candi sugar. A moderate amount of belgian yeast in the taste with some light phenols and banana esters. Full bodied.

750ml bottle thanks to Bstill.... pours a cloudy deep brown with a moderate thick light tan head.... aroma of light oaky tartness, musty earthiness with some underlying sweet toffee malts..... sweet sugary malts upfront wtih earth dark fruits and also a fair amount of oak. aggresively carbonated with a fairly nice/full mouthfeel. finish was sweet and long lasting....can’t say that this is worth the pricetag but it was nice to try. the brett infused version was definitely more enjoyable.

Bottle. This was a real treat. Pours brown with a thin tan head. Aroma is oak, sugar, and caramel malt. Flavor is sweet with a moderate etoh presence, belgian candi sugar with no real hop character. A good offering.

750 ml bottle - thanks to Fryecrakker05 for the trade; pours dark brown with slight white head; the main thing here was a dominating sweetness from the oak in both the flavors and aromas; had a real nice body to it and drank silky smooth; alcohol is hidden and the malts are rich, just a little overpowered by the sweetness

Bottle. Body-dark cola with a thin ring of bubbles. Nose-brandy, buttery, toffee, warm cream, raisin, fig, molasses, big soft creamy beautiful nose. Taste-low CO2, raisin, fresh fig, molasses, raisin/tannic bitterness, treacle, plum, prune, big dark fruit dominates, low to almost nonexistent Belgian characteristics, some apple/pear notes, caramel on the backend, very light sweet chewing tobacco, buttery. Excellent flavor that borders on sweet with dark fruits dominating. Cloying on the back end.

Sampled at Dickinsonbeer’s Hoboken gathering - smells of oak, vanilla, boubon - light vinous tartness, brown sugar, loads of bourbon, and strong vanilla in the flavor - cherry, oak, booze - a tad too sweet, with apparent alcohol that burns a little too much - tasty none-the-less.

Bottle, shared I believe by eyedrinkale. Brown pour, off-white head. Aroma is strange malt, some sweet dark fruit but also burnt roast and wood. The flavor is the same, the wood is a little off, and there is some alcohol noticable also.