De Proef Cuvee Mystique

Brewed by De Proefbrouwerij
Style: Abt/Quadrupel
Lochristi - Hijfte, Belgium

Serve in Trappist glass

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Bottle. [thanks after4ever]
Pours deep brown with a big, creamy, off-white head. Lovely duration. Aroma is light boozy, chocolate, soft plums and sweet malts. Medium carbonation, fine dry and creamy mouthfeel. Flavour is sweet, malty, chocolate, liqourice. Long, malty, sharp bitter finish. Elegant and quite like a stout. Lovely really.

Three or four year old bottle. Ruby brown color with lasting tan head. Big ass rootbeer spice, toasted caramel, black licorice, vanilla, toffee aromas. Rich smooth mouthfeel. Toasted caramel flavors with sherry, vanilla, black licorice spice, easy smooth finish.

Aroma smells of dark roasted malts, chocolate, and caramel, maybe traces of hops. The taste begins full bodied and malty, and finished with a mellow flavor of bitter hops and chocolate. The appearance is a hazy auburn color.

750 ml corked and caged bottle into Trappist glass. Pours a dirty brown with no head, only a skiff and collar of off-white foam that disappears quickly. Aroma is apples, burnt popcorn, butter, cheese, licorice and molasses. Taste is mostly sweet with just a hint of sour and bitter. Finish is long and alcoholic. Carbonation is medium, body is medium-full. So far, the best by far I’ve had from this brewery.

In short: A very fruity Abt with annoying sour grapes. Bad example of the style.
How: Bottle 750ml. Consumed almost 1 year after purchase.
The look: Cloudy burgundy topped by a long-lasting small beige head
In long: The pleasant nose is full of raisins and other dark fruits. So far so good. Taste is a letdown. Way too much prunes, raisins, dark grapes, pastry dough. The beer was a bit vinous and the strong fruity character of the beer at times felt into sour grapes territory. With each glass I lowered my score with the sour grapes flavor that was bothering me more and more as I drank the bottle. A lazy beer named after a lazy individual who is too lazy to study physics but wants to understand the universe.

750 ml bottle- Pours dark cloudy with a thin bone white head, decent lacework. The aroma is raisins molassess and brown sugar. The flavor is brown sugar and molassess with an alcoholic bite, it has a gritty taste to it, almost like there is undesolved brown sugar in my mouth, the worst quad I have ever had. Thats not to say that this isn’t worth drinking, but for my money there are a lot better quads out there.

Molasses and brown sugar nose. Cloudy brown, thick tan lacing head. Thinnish mouthfeel. Light on flavor, but balanced and somewhat rustic. Very subtle brown sugar and currant notes. Not as sweet as expected. Woody finish. Alcohol well concealed. Weak quad and overpriced. Lacks character. Thud.

Pours a murky dark brown color with a medium beige head. Aroma of leather, caramel and yeast. Flavor of leather, caramel, yeast and some bitterness. Interesting.

Bottle. Heavy malt aromas of cookie, caramel and milk chocolate, light resin and cooked orange for the hops, moderate dough for the yeast, with background notes of port wine, date, brown sugar and toffee. Head is small, wispy off-white with good lacing and is mostly diminishing. Color is dark murky brown. Flavor starts moderately sweet and lightly acidic, then finishes moderately sweet and lightly bitter. Palate is medium to full, creamy and has a soft carbonation with a slighty sticky finish. Tha chocolate chip cookie aspect of this was real nice. Just a hint of artificial sweetness held this Quadrupel back from having a higher overall score for me.

Appearance: Dispenses from the bottle a clearish, robust-looking brown body with a thinnish, beige head. Smell: Vibrant fruit melange in the aroma, displaying full notes of green raisins, tart cherries, and even well-ripened apricots. Pinch of earthy well-ground spices. Sturdy breadiness, along with some sweetish hint of caramel and brown sugar. Taste: Moderately sweet dark malt character with tastes of dark caramel sauce, light chocolate, brown sugar, and a rich breadiness. As with the nose, it’s boldly fruity. Earthy, peppery spice accents. Emerging dark candi sugar flavor. Slight hint of alcohol warmth on the drying, crisply carbonated finish. Mouthfeel: Medium-plus body. Medium-high carbonation. Drinkability: Fairly smooth BSDA that improves a bit upon slight warmth. It’s full and flavorful, but is never overbearing.