La Trappe Quadrupel

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

A nose of raisins, yeast, sugars and pear. The taste is of yeast, sugars, mint and fermented fruit - at least you get a hint of those flavors before a massive taste of amaretto/björnklister/marzipan takes over completely. Too much alcohol in the finish. I probably shouldn’t have opened this already. It’s not awful, but it clearly doesn’t live up to my expectations. I have one more bottle in the cellar = rerate in a year or so.

Seemed like the alcohol content was forced - ABV over taste and texture. Pretty good, but could have been much better.

Dark color. White head. Good sweetness from fruit and raisin. Nice bitterness. Balanced

Aroma of fermented fruit, yeast and toffe. Apperance is red-orange with small white head. Flavor of fermented fruits, raissins and yeast, the alcohol is shining threw. Overal a quite weak quadrupel with to much taste of alcohol.

Bottle: malty, vinous, fruity, some over ripe apples, loads of caramel, very sweet and alcoholic, good beer but a bit too much alcohol in the taste.

pours reddish orange with little head and no lacing. smells of sweet fruit and bread. taste about the same thing with slight alcohol aftertaste.

(bottle) pours a deep orange-ruby colour with a frothy off-white head. subdued aroma of floral hops, alcohol, dark malts, caramelized fruit and bread. flavour is the same, with light notes of banana and a bready finish. strong-bodied with medium carbonation.

Deep dark and heavy beer. This beer is made for a great dinner but to drink it solo, it is too heavy for me. Great palate. Nose contains a lot of alcohol. Next to that some fruits, sugar and a few hoppy notes.