The Bruery Partridge in a Pear Tree

Brewed by The Bruery
Style: Abt/Quadrupel
Placentia, California USA

750mL bottle, purchased at Bottle Barn. Pours a murky, medium brown color; light tan head with solid retention and lacing. Sweet aroma of brown sugar and toasted pecans; sweet, malty, hidden alcohol. Medium-to-full mouthfeel: loads of maple syrup, smooth brown sugar, and lots of toasty pecans / nuttiness upfront; definitely sweet, complex (without being overly focused), and well-tempered in terms of alcohol; a solid, xmas-focused quad. Medium finish: maple syrup, brown sugar, moderately sweet without stickiness.

Good, but too sweet. Pours a murky brown with tan head. Aroma is pear and malt. Notes of plum and ripe cranberry. Finishes as sweet as it starts. Lots of sugar. This would be nice if it weren’t so damn sweet! The heart is in the right place on this one, but the sugar is just too much.

bottle. unfiltered, murky plum colored body, very small head. nose of beet juice and wild fermented cider doesn’t start things well. spices which run from spruce and juniper to white pepper and dried orange zest is messy and clashes with the sticky toffee and plum flavored malt. yeast is difficult to get a sense of beneath the unnecessarily strong spices, and what’s there is generally dull and boring. a terrible attempt at a spiced quad, it’s syrupy, sweet and overly fruity. the bruery seems to be just throwing things together with no sense of craft and little attention paid to detail.

Bottle shared by wolf at SL. Pours a redish color, decent head. Nice aroma of apples and some fruitiness.... Taste is a mixture between a quad and a barleywine. Lots of apples, cherries, other fruits and some sweetness. Really easy to drink for 11% percent. Medium texture, which surprised me for a 11% percent.... Really easy to drink and impressed with this hybrid beer

Pours reddish brown with yellow highlights. Aroma of brown sugar, and....cough medicine? Tastes of brown sugar, toffee, pears, apples, maple, and a certain pokey weird fruit thing....cough drops, maybe. Full and creamy body, soft carbonation. I wanted to love this, but it has that slight medicinal flaw that keeps coming out. Mostly good.

sample from the bottle at Dr. Bill’s Tasting at Falling Rock during GABF on 9/26/09... pours a dark red/orange... sweet nose.. medium body... the sweet malts really dominate the beer, while a bit of caramel and spice come forward.... very enjoyable.

Bottle from Paiste2002, thanks! Dark brown color. Malty nutty aroma wuith nutmeg and pear juice. Malty sweet flavor with pear juice, mango, cinnamon, nutmeg and some warming alcohol. Very pleasant beer, the fruity sweetness hides the alcoholic power. Good, but maybe a bit too onedimensional sweet to be top class.

Cloudy copper color no head. Aroma has a lot of booze with some sweetness. Flavor is a sticky sweet boozy bomb with faint fruit sweetness, some caramel and toffee cream.