Pizza Port Carlsbad Belgian Style Quadruple

Brewed by Pizza Port (Carlsbad)
Style: Abt/Quadrupel
Carlsbad, California USA

Draft. A deep red beer with a brown head. The aroma is quite sweet with notes of over ripe fruit, alcohol, and brown sugar. The flavor is sweet with strong notes of over ripe fruits and alcohol as well as medium notes of wood, prunes, and brown sugar, leading to a dry alcoholic finish.

From tap at Ølbaren. Pours dark brown to black with a small light tan head. Yeasty, dense fruity and roasted malt aroma. Sweet malty flavoured. Dark roasted malty with a distinct yeasty and fruity bite. Smooth mouthfeel. Sweet and phenolic yeasty into a warming finish. Quite dense phenolic into the far finish with a mild throat burn.

Draught at Ølbaren. Cloudy red brown coloured with a small off white head. Sweet and fruity aroma dominated by dried fruits with notes of liquorice, tobacco and alcohol. Sweet flaovur of dried fruits, caramel, marzipan, liquorice and alcohol. Warming alcoholic finish. Nice, but too alcoholic.

Name: Belgian Quad
Brewery: Port Brewing / Pizza Port
Date: October 26, 2008
Mode: Hand Bottled
Source: Trade
Appearance: muddy brown, wispy tan head, streaks of drippy lace
Aroma: sweet dark fruit aroma, rum raisons, touch of peppery alcohol, brown sugar sweetness, light spicyness, breadyness gives it a spicecake character
Body: big body
Flavor: rich dark caramel and brown sugar flavor, nice deep dark fruits ripen as it warms and a sweetness emerges, light spicyness , balancing earthyness, fleeting hint of alcoholic heat leaves a peppery touch, light bitter finish
Aroma: 8/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 8/10; Palate: 7/10; Overall: 17/20
Rating: 4.1/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: **4

Draught at Ølbaren, Copenhagen
Dark brown color with red shades. Strong body, good mix of caramel and chocolate, limited sweetness, low bitterness, pleasant warmth. On the simple side.

Draught. Dark brown medium beige head. Sweet deep malty aroma with some dark fruits and yeast. Good mouthfeel. The flavour is quite sweet with roasty malt, some dark fruits, alcohol, caramel and yeast. Good but the alcohol is to present.

Tap @ Ørsted Ølbar.
Pours very dark brown, lightly muddy. A small, staying, creamy, beige head on top. Super aroma with raisins, plums, light caramel, alkohol, liqourice notes, chocolate, ginger. Fat and creamy mouthfeel. Medium to low carbonation. Pleasant flavour, soft alcohol viniousness, some chocolate, plums, raisins. The alcohol is well hidden. Actually feel close to the classic Belgians, though is a tad too dry and chocolate-y. Still wonderful, though.

On tap at PP Carlsbad: Pours a dark amber mahogany with a thin-lacing wispy off-white head. Has a sweet dark caramely nose with nice bready yeasty character and some dark fruity notes. Body starts rich and sweet with some brown sugar and raisin complexity with authentic Trappist yeastiness before a slightly drier finish that hides the alcohol fairly well. A nice Quadrupel.