 Rastacouere (5564), Montréal, Quebec, Canada
| 2.2 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 5/10 | 3/5 | 4/10 | 2/5 | 8/20 |
Jul 15, 2008 Objectively speaking:
Pure plywood juice with hints of bourbon and fruits.
I like:
How they describe it as subtle when mentionning gentle vanilla oaky notes which complement rather than supercede.
I dislike:
I did not recognize the base beer at all. Not that it’s a small beer, but it had been just eaten up by the overwhelming, rather astringent wooden show-robber. Strongly alcoholic. Light-medium bodied at best. Fruity, but too astringent and hot to be enjoyable. The high scores are a mystery to me.
hopdog (5617), Lansdale, Pennsylvania, USA
| 3.6 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 3/5 | 8/10 | 3/5 | 15/20 |
Jul 12, 2008 22oz bottle. Poured a deper orangish color with a large sized off white head. Aromas of oak and bourbon with some fruitiness, and vanilla. Tastes of vanilla, bourbon, dark fruits, woody, and caramel. Alcohol burn in the finish.
SETANTA (581), Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA
| 4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 17/20 |
Jul 8, 2008 Alot of vanilla on top of the already sweet QUAD... a definite improvement on it.
VTHopHead (934), Barre, Vermont, USA
| 3.6 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 3/5 | 7/10 | 4/5 | 15/20 |
Jul 6, 2008 Bomber - Poured a dark reddish amber in color with a small off-white head that faded to a thin covering over the beer. Aroma is of alcohol, vanilla, fermented fruits and wood. Flavor is slightly sweet with vanilla, dark fruits, and bourbon whiskey. A definite alcohol burn going down. Finish is definitely "oaky" with a lingering flavor of vanilla and bourbon. Enjoyable...
Hank1980 (767), Athens, Georgia, USA
| 3.1 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 3/5 | 6/10 | 3/5 | 13/20 |
Jul 6, 2008 Poured cloudy deep amber with a small white head. Aroma of oak, vanilla, fruit, booze. Taste is a little sweeter than I like. There’s plenty of fruit, sugar, some vanilla, and caramel. Finishes with a light alcohol burn. Overall, a decent effort for a bottled barrel-aged brew.
ewestern (198), Ohio, USA
| 4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 18/20 |
Jul 4, 2008 Poured with an off white head and amber in color. Aroma and taste was filled with alcohol and vanilla. After taste reminded me of whiskey, which happens to be my favorite liquor.
stefanje (953), (Santee) San Diego, California, USA
| 3.6 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 7/10 | 4/5 | 14/20 |
Jun 26, 2008 12 oz bottle courtesy of coldbrewky. Pours a murky brown color with a small white head that soon dissipates. The aroma is moderate in strength with a good whiff of vanilla, dark fruits and a touch of cola. The flavors focus on the same tastes as the aroma with a bit of light whiskey filling in the back end. The mouthfeel is silky smooth with lively carbonation. The finish is long with lingering oak. Overall: A very interesting brew, my first for this brewery. I think that this would age very well, it seems a bit young and immature. That aside it is a very good concoction.
MartinT (5075), Montreal, Quebec, Canada
| 2.9 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 3/5 | 6/10 | 3/5 | 11/20 |
Jun 23, 2008 My Bottom Line:
This Barrel-Aged Quadrupel’s flavor profile focuses way too much on its barrel flavors and alcohol heat for my tastes. The yeasty fruitiness is complex, but the malt character and the body seem to have suffered greatly from the lengthy barrel dip.
Further Personal Perceptions:
-That fruitiness roams from cherries to strawberry jam.
-There is a lot of straightforward sugar in the flavor profile; caramel or toastiness would have been more pleasant to me.
-The barrel apport is so tactless, it tastes like plywood.
-Alcohol burns in the back, certainly helped by the wooden dryness.
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