Weyerbacher Quad

Brewed by Weyerbacher Brewing Co.
Style: Abt/Quadrupel
Easton, Pennsylvania USA

deep dark amber, head dissapates quickly to spread around the rim of the goblet. chocolate, caramel, and butterscotch aromas. chocolate and brownsugar flavors...very sweet. over the top with belgian sugars. this is not a bad quad, just a bit more one dimensional when compared to some of the great belgian quads. I wonder what a stretch of time in the cellar would do for this?

Sweet. Delicious. Would be great as a dessert, but not one I’d order just to drink. Glad I had a sip instead of a full one -- just not up my alley.

copper reddish-brown color with a thin head. The smell is nice. Like honey and malt. A lot of sweetness and some strong spice and alcohol mixed in. the finish is kind of sticky and sweet in the mouth. Pretty good stuff, but not great. Needs a balancing flavor that is missing.

Hearty brown liquid with a smaller lid of light tan bubbles. Heavy somewhat dirty malt aromas with some old oak and tart cherry aromas. Start is quite pleasant with mild malt sweetness, followed quite quickly by by some oaken malt and alcohol. The alcohol does not last long and distracts only slightly. Heavy fruit cake flavors settle in toward the finish. Mild raisins, pears and cherries. Slightly peppery on the tongue. This appears to be an older bottle, which would explain some of the ratings I have seen. This seems to have come into its own and while still quite strong, is quite enjoyable as a snifter type brew. Borders on the edge of an english style barleywine.

03.06.05 12 oz bottle. Now here’s one that I’ve passed over dozens of times due to price and skepticism as to a PA brewers ability to pull this style off, even though I love Weyerbacher.Pretty copper/red/amber pour with little off-white head save some webby trace across the surface. Really, it looks like a barleywine. Sweet aromas, candi sugar, grapefruit pith, bell pepper, black pepper. Vegetal, like lettuce, and more bell pepper on flavor. Sweet malt backbone, strong and peppery yeast and hop finish. Man, this beer is hot! Body seems thin for a quad (or any beer of this size) and the alcohol does burn. A year or two could do this a lot of good As the beer warms, more of the vegetal flavors emerge, and something that tastes a bit like a bad nut. The beer definitely gets less pleasant and hotter as it comes up to room temp. The beer totally falls apart in front of me, but I do think it has some potential to improve with age.

12.12.05 re-rate, 12oz bottle I’ve had since July. The aroma is deeper than I remember it being, lots of raisin and caramel with more complexity and only warming alcohol (not so hot). There has been an evolution of flavor in this stuff and the results are great. Sherry, raisin, fig, slate, white pepper. The body, too, is vastly improved, fuller and more coating and the heat is mostly gone, yielding to a pleasant warmth.
Original score: 6,3,6,2,12

Bubbly reddish brown color with a thin white head. Aroma is young and hot. Heavy thick mouthfeel. Not as yeasty as expected from a quad. Very nice but a little young. This beer could stand to be aged a little bit. Not sure that it is entirely style appropriate.

Pour was honey brown, with small whtie ring of a head. Nose is alcohol with frutis, spices, some malt. Taste is similar but more potent, quite mellow for a 12.1, some nutiness in the taste as well. Thanks to Richlikebeer for this and many other Weyerbacher brews.

Poured reddish amber with a thin tan head...smell is light and fruity with alcohol...definately a nice aroma, but somehow not quite right for this style...too sweet...taste is also very very sweet with apples and pears and maybe some dark fruit toward the finish...lots of alcohol, but doesn’t quite taste like 12%...some malty nutty weirdness in the finish...