De Prael Willy (11.5%)

Brewed by Brouwerij de Prael
Style: Abt/Quadrupel
Amsterdam, Netherlands

Serve in Trappist glass

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UPDATED: APR 26, 2012 33cl bottle from ABCBeers Amber colour. Decent head. A bit sweet but a decent beer

On tap at the brewpub. Pours a hazy, chestnut brown with one ring of white head. Nose is candy sugar, dried fruit, plums, root beer candy. Flavor is very sweet, plums, dried fruits, dates, candy sugar, brown sugar, a little malt. Full bodied, a little sticky but otherwise drinkable.

Bottle: Medium creamy to off white head, disappears quick, on top of a dark ruby colored beer. Smel prunes, roosvicee, barleys. A balance between darker ingredients and deeper but nice sweetness. Taste barley(s,) malts, spices, caramel, some herbs. Medium bitterness. Bitter barley prunes aftertaste.,  Low to medium carbo, light spicy mouthfeel, medium to full body and a creamy texture. Nice and well balanced tasty beer.

Bottle 33cl, a syrupy dark amber beer with small creamy and off white head. Nose is on barley notes, cereal and alcohol. Aroma is again very grainy, lot of barley sugar, toasted notes, sweet oranges, yeast, bit massive, cherries, grassy bitterness at the finish. Not unpleasant but unbalanced.

Bottle. Pours a murky brown body with a small caramel head, vanishing rapidly. Aroma is nuts, dark malts, hints of Belgian ale yeast, caramel and raisins. Nice, but a bit faint for a quad. Taste is raisins, plums, dark candy sugars and hints of caramel. Some tartness in the finish, unexpectedly. A bit plain but an OK quad. At least the brewery claims it to be a quad, I see RB has it different.

Small creamy head soft medium carbonation not much cover at the finish dark ruby red pour aromas plum alcohol brandy yeast woody note raisin flavour sweet a port taste brown sugar yeast sweetness plum raisin a lot of sweetness to the ale it is pleasant on the palate brandy note finish sweet ale alcohol slightly noticeable dark fruit pleasant on the palate lasting sweet aftertaste

Bottle 0,33ltr: Dark brown coloured brew with an burning feel, taste of roasted malts and dried fruits, hints of caramel.

Very dark brown body and light tan head. Yeasty sweet arom, brioche bread, chocolate muffins, caramelized red apple, but maybe not as expressive as such a description might indicate. Bit disapointing. Taste makes up for this: a real warming, light sticky body. Lots of fruity, sweaty sweetness, dried fruit and with a alcohol hint at the back. Finishes with burned caramel. Warms my throat as well as my heart, as I love this kind of full bodied sweetness in a Belgian style beer. Low carbonation further accentuates this character. Can see how this might not appeal to everyone, though. (33cl bottle, reasonably priced)

33 cl. bottle @ home - thx. to Martinus for this one. Pours dark brown, light hue bordeaux, smaller tanned head. Smell is sweet boozy, berries, licorice, molasses, toffee, caramel malts. Bit odd taste, very heavy on chocolate milk with some plain chocolate, lightly watery, berries, touch roast, twigs, sweet spices, somewhat bitter in the end, where the alcohol pops up and starts warming your through, strong chocolate milk nature remains, rather enjoyable at first if bit odd, gets hard to finish by the end of the bottle - yeah

Bottle. Dark brown, very short and fully diminishing head. Moderate, malty and sweetish aroma, caramel and some fruitiness, alcohol. Body is medium to full, malty and sweetish, some caramel and fruitiness, alcohol. Finish is average, malty and sweetish, caramel and some fruitiness, alcohol. Sweet strong ale with lots of alcohol.