Weyerbacher Quad

bottle, pours a hazy light brown with a thin white head and lots of floating yeast. Aroma is sugary with some floral notes and honey. Nice sweet pale malt and honey flavor with light raisin and fig in the finish. Really a nice sweet and minimally bitter quad.

As soon as the bottle was opened there was a noticeable alcohol scent which carried into the glass. This is a deep copper to light brown ale at about 17-19 SRM with considerable carbonation within its murky confines. The head was off white and diminished quickly. It has a light crisp alcohol taste with hints of your grandmother’s loaf of rising bread on the windowsill. Not as complex as I would like to see with a brief finish. Make sure you drink this at warmer temps to appreciate fully.

From dmac via trade. Poured cloudy and brown with a few thin off-white bubbles that struggled to make a full head. The aroma was brown sugar, raisin and a whiff of booze. The flavor was bready and sweet with some darker fruits and a nice surge of warming alcohol towards the finish. Almost medium in body and a bit oily.

2002 12oz bottle aged the better part of years. The aroma has turned outright port-like, rich alcohol and dark fruit overload. There is still a little carbonation, though certainly tapered off a bit. Brown sugar, dark fruit, and raisin flavor, maybe a touch of vanilla. This is some sipping beer, brutal but tasty. Really reminds me of Port wine, but is more drinkable. Hard to say if it really improved with age, as theire are aspects I like about the fresh version as well. The rating is sort of inaccurate and unfair, because I would probably rate the fresh version higher.

This was an enormous, potent beer. Got a bottle at New Beer Distributors in NYC. Poured a hazy, bright honey-amber with a fluffly, lingering head. Nose of honey, brown sugar, and dark fruits such as cherries, figs, and raisins. Flavor is at first quite sweet but then gives way to the alcohol, which warms the palette is a nice way. Notes of cane sugar and raisin abound in this beer. Pretty smooth and has a nice body. I don’t think I could drink two of these back-to-back. This is powerful stuff.

Pours a murky light brown. Nose is big raisin, fig, alcohol, cherry, sweet fruit, brown sugar. Flavor is booze soaked fruit, marachino cherries, plum, fig and massive amounts of raisin. You know you are drinking a 12% beer. They don’t hide that booze at all.

Source:12 oz bottle from Greens Beverage in Atlanta.
Glass:Orval trappist.
Appearance:Hazy orange pour with almost no head.
Aroma:Dark fruits, sweet bread and caramel.
Flavor:Heavy dark fruits with caramel, toffee, bread and earth.
Palate:Full body with solid carbonation.
Overall:No head, but high carbonation, not sure about that. Excellent flavor and aroma, though a bit boozy. Still, a very good beer.

12 oz bottle courtesy of either TheEpeeist or Cletus or someone else I might have forgotten.. man, I should slow down on the trading. Pours a dark amber, hazed, bubbly, with sunset orange notes, decent offwhite head that laces, dies to a small layer. Aromas throw caramel, Belgian candy sugar, apple and pear, with a decent yeasty spice, bread. Good fruit mix with sugar and spice and light vanilla. Initial is a bit thicker, good fruit throwing banana esters pretty big, caramel, pear, apple, bread, vanilla, with light spice, as the darker sugars take the stage with the big fruity influence. It seems this is how Weyerbacher makes it’s Belgian ales, which I can’t argue with. A good warming booziness follows suit, as the sweetness of fruits and sugars works it’s magic. Faint bitterness, but not enough in my opinion. This is a nice beer for colder nights, I think. Ok.. an underwhelming Quad though, as far as complexity goes.