Marin Quad

Draught. Pours a murky amber brown with golden highlights and a dense vanilla coloured head that leaves clingy lace. Very sweet aroma of stewed fruits and caramel malt with yeasty undertones. Heavy, sticky-sweet palate of caramel malt, dates, and cooked apples. Warming finish with very low bitterness. Even as a sipper this got to be a bit much.

On tap. Pours a hazy dark brown with a tint of orange and a creamy beige head leaving some lacework. Sweet aroma of dried fruit, prunes and dates. Quite full-bodied, heavy on the dried fruit flavours with lots of burned caramel and brown sugar. No bitterness - absolutely no bitterness. A bit of a sugar bomb - and a bit too much, even for me. 110709

From tap at the brewpub. Pours hazy dark brown with a small tan head. Roasted malt and light spiced phenolic. Sweet caramel malt flavoured, light fruity and distinct yeasty phenolic trappist note. Sweet and lingering malty flavoured finish. Smooth and classic Belgian on the yeast profile.

Courtesy Hopscotch, what a f’ing bottle!! Very hazy amber when poured. Aroma is sticky sweet, candy sugar, green apples, some maltiness. Flavor is more of the same, with the sweetness being a bit much for these taste buds.

Date: 12/02/2006
Mode: Draft
Source: Brewfest, Strong Ale Fest

clear dark red, wispy off white head, nice lace, light sweet malt aroma, big sweet malt flavor, lots of candy sweetness, touch of fruity character, nice light bitterness in the finish but not enough to counteract the sweetness, still a good sipper even with the sweetness
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Date: 07/14/2007
Mode: bottle
Source: tasting
Score: 3.4 to 3.8

opaque dark rusty red, sweet dark fruit and raison aroma, sweet candied fruit flavor, gritty brown sugar character, sweetness has mellowed nicely and better balanced even though there is no more apparent bitterness, nice chocolate blends well with the fruit,

Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 8/10; Palate: 7/10; Overall: 15/20
Rating: 3.8/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: **4

Huge thanks to hopscotch for truckin’ this monstrous 3L bottle to bobo’s event. Pours brown-ish copper with thin tan head. The aroma gets different with each tug. It goes from sweet caramelized malts to smokiness to sweetness to bacon (what?!?!). More whiffs bring up only sweet caramelized maltiness. Nice aroma. The flavor is nice and thick with rich caramelized maltiness to figs and plums and other dark fruity flavors. The midway point the caramel becomes smooth and candy sweet and just grows in strength toward the finish. Very smooth and rich brew. I loved it.

Poured from a 3L bottle courtesy of Hopscotch. Pours out a chocolate, hazelnut color with little head. Taste is a mouthful of sweet slammin caramel. It is so smooth, like a wine. Very little carbonation. At the very end, you start to get anise/ sambuca in the flavor. Just an amazing bounty of flavor and something I have never had before.

Bottle (3 Liter)... O-Town Throwdown Part Deux... Pours a hazy, deep amber with a small, creamy, off-white head. The nose is acidic, yet malty and wafts caramel, vinous notes, funk and rawhide. Odd flavor of golden raisins and caramel. Sweet, but funky too. Full-bodied with a syrupy mouthfeel and controlled carbonation. Sweet, caramel finish. Thanks to FlacoAlto for shipping this out so quickly for the Throwdown!