3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Pours light amber with white head that dissipates. Aroma is malty and medicinal. Taste is same as aroma, pepper/spice, anise, burnt sugar, dark fruit, alcohol is warming. It’s a good quad but there are much better.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Brownish ruby amber with modest white head. Aroma is loaded with dark fruit- raisin, plum, fig, caramel, molasses and lots of spicy yeast. Flavor mimics the aroma in many senses: tons of residual sugar sweetness with a backbone of malt and slightest hop balance. Quite underrated. Palate is silky smooth and slightly alcoholic. Excellent.
3.6 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
pours a red/orange with a 1 finger frothy head. Aroma is heavy with dark fruit- prunes, fig, raisin, plum. Flavor is very sweet; the dark fruits lighten up a bit and become sweeter, and the alcohol manifests itself in what struck me as a cognac flavor. Palate is pretty average for the style. I like it because it’s a quad, but not impressive compared to some others.
2.5 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 9/20
Bomber served in a snifter. Pours a cloudy dark orange. Nose of a Bloody Mary. Minimal head and lacing. Full flavored and sugary. Prune and molasses finish. I had high hopes, but can not recommend this one.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 12/20
Aroma of alcohol and sugars with some fruit. Caramel and fruity taste leads to an alcohol finish. Nice beer
3.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle. Pours a gorgeous, clear rusty amber. The appearance of this beer is quite beautiful, actually. Definitely this quad’s strongest feature. A rather thick and quickly vanishing head, yielding some pleasant lacing on the glass. The head didn’t yield too much in the way of an aroma, however. There was a bit of cinnamon and alcohol, but not much else. Brown sugar and cinnamon in the mouth, with a silky texture, though not as full of a mouthfeel that a quad demands. Finish is slightly sour with alcohol.
3 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 9/20
I want to like this beer. Its color and aroma are great, but the flavor and palate are a complete let down. The finish (unless I got a bunk bottle) was almost sour in my mouth.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Sampled yesterday with BrotherBrando: Poured a dark but cloudy copper colour with a huge white head. Aroma had noticeable alcohol and fruity esters, wheat and caramel notes on the nose. Taste was pleasent, very rich, and creamy with brown sugar and plum notes. A little spice in the finish as well.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle. Pours a red ruby color with a small, quickly disappearing head. Smells like sweet bread, with plums and yeast. Tastes of raisins, caaramel, burnt malts with a nice alcoholic bite. creamy and gently fizzy mouthfeel.
3.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
2008 Bottle - Thanks SpringsLicker! - Pours a hazy copper with a small off white head...aroma is light belgian with some pit fruit and black tea...flavour is sticky sweet fruit that takes a backseat to the booze and malt syrup...I also get massive tea-like qualities, light tannins and spice...no telling what this would be like with a few years in the bottle...
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