3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 17/20
Bottle... Poured an orange with a thick white head. Aroma of a mild booziness, yeast, brown sugar, malt and spices. Mild carbonation and an overall smooth palate. A creamy, caramel, vanilla and a mild chocolate character with flavors of candy sweets, rum-like nut character, dark malts and dark fruits. Not as deep and dark as other quads, but very drinkable and a nice quality to it.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Not a bad quad. Smells of dark fruit, caramel, and candy sugar. The flavor is likewise with notes of cherries, sugar, and a bit of spice. Little bite at the end. Overall not bad.
3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Pours clear bronze with a soapy tan head. The aroma has lots of candi sugar, toffee, caramel and Belgium funk - it somes off as a sweet barley wine with a Belgium twist. Thick sticky body with carbonation that is fairly soft. The taste starts sweet and malty with brown sugar, mollases, and light Belgium funk - quite cloying. The finish is still sweet, but not as much so. There’s more of an earthy and spicy side mixed in with the sweetness. For the first third of the bottle this comes off more as a Barleywine than a Quad. Then the rest of the way down the bottle it starts having more of a Belgium earthiness and the brown sugar starts resembling the Belgium candi sugar more giving it a Belgium taste, but more of a Belgium strong ale than a quad. If you go into this looking for an enjoyable strong ale instead of a true quad you should be happy with it, especially for the price.
3.2 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Poured an orange, brown...medium sized head. Nice looking. Aroma of spice and brown sugar. Pretty good and different. Sweet, but did not find it overwhelmingly so. Flavor of yeast, candy sugar, spice and fruit. Good, but not great.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
22 oz bottle - Pours hazy amber with a thin, fading head. Suggestion - if you took this one out of the fridge, let it warm up for awhile. The aroma and flavor both seemed a bit lacking at first. Then as it warmed a nice aroma of malts, yeast, and dark fruits asserted itself. Initially the flavor mostly just tasted sweet. As it warmed the sweetness remained but the fruity complexity came out so much better. The finish is sweet and warming with the 10% alcohol largely masked. The weakness is that it’s still too sweet, but this is a quality ale.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
(bottle - 22 oz) Very dark orange color with a thin and creamy tan head. Lots of sweet malts and candy sugar in the aroma with hints of fruits and some brown sugar. Sweet and smooth taste of candy sugar, malt and some dark fruits. Very smooth and drinkable considering the ABV.
3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Draft at rattle with Brendan, streets and baron. Pours a hazy red body with no head, light lacing Aroma is spicy malts and alcohol. Mouthfeel is thin with notes of booze and sweet malts.
3.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Reddish brown of color with a beige head. An aroma of caramel, spice and toffee. A flavor of malt, sweets, spice and a dry finish.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 12/20
Buttery fishy caramel yeat banana aroma. Kind of weird. Perfectly transparent copper with an average off-white head. Very peppery and spiced up to start giving way to banana and yeast notes. Finish has some more spices in it. In not a fan of this "quadruppel". Certainly not even close to being Belgian. Thanks to Ecvich for letting me try this!
1.9 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 1/5 OVERALL 6/20
Epic Malt Bomb, reminds me of Kasteel Quad which is definitely not a good thing.
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