 Drnk_McDermott (1565), Downers Grove, Illinois, USA
Apr 21, 2004 Updated: Nov 29, 2007
Bottled. Certainly a big, big taste at work here. Starts with lots of foam, but that subsides quickly. The brown hazy body shows off a cascade of golden bubbles when I pour more into the Belgian glass. Nice brown sugar smell. Even my non-drinking wife wanted to taste it, and delcared it delicious and sweet. Yep, good candi sugar sweetness. Extra alcohol smoothness gives it the texture of a sweet dinner wine. Or maybe I can compare it to a barley wine, just missing the hop bouquet.
CanIHave4Beers (216), Des Moines, Iowa, USA
Oct 13, 2008 Pours a nice light brown with an enormous fluffy white head. Plenty of sweetness and dried fruit on the nose as well as some alcohol. The beer has a nicely spicy flavor complimenting it’s light malty sweetness are a arrangement of dry flavors including that of raisins, nuts, and unsweetened cocoa. The texture is very creamy and the alcohol is barely present when drank at cellar temperature.
GAManiac (352), Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Oct 4, 2008 Pours surprisingly light for a quad, crystal clear copper with an off-white head that showed great retention and lacing. There was a constant stream of bubbles in the middle of the glass.
The dominant smells are of Belgian yeast and candied sugar. However there is also big dark fruit aromas as well as vanilla and caramel.
The taste is also dominated by the caramel sweetness and Belgian yeast. The malt backbone is present but not as big as most quads.
Mouthfeel is a tad thin for the style but still smooth and complex.
This is a great beer and a very good quad. It’s a little light to be world class, but I could drink it all night long.
Sigmund (1962), Hafrsfjord, Norway
Oct 4, 2008 330 ml bottle, courtesy of Cardinal Pub & Bar, Stavanger. ABV is 10%. Deep amber to copper colour. Rich, very big and lasting off-white head. Lovely vinous aroma, also notes of brown candy sugar, caramel and various spices. The flavour is very rich and sweet, with plenty of malts, brown sugar and spices. Moderate hops in the finish.
cheapdark (1607), Monacatootha, Pennsylvania, USA
Oct 4, 2008 Yep er doodle, had this at Brugge Point, high class area of Pgh. 11 oz bottle. Pour, by ’tender, into a flute is slightly cloudy iced tea but I don’t see any gunlk on the bottom of the bottle. 8$. nice clean trapppist aroma which encompasses a belgie little candy sweetness. Good carbonation, reminds me of the feel of Orval. Taste is strong like a strong beer but certainly nothing like the 10% indicted here. Hides this content well. Decently strong belgie that is more refined than most 10% belgies, especially the american versions. Alky does become more apparrent and annoying towards the end of the session.
pope_phred (123), Plainfield, Illinois, USA
Oct 4, 2008 Poured from the bottle into a double-walled pint glass. Pour produced a cloudy nut-brown body, topped by a full, quickly diminishing tan head of foam. Pleasant, sweet aroma, with a good malt character.Good mouthfeel with a crisp effervesance and an initial sweetness, followed by the slight warmness of alcohol at the back of the throat, though not quite as bitter as the description would suggest.
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