Iron Hill Oak Aged Cherry Quadrupel

Brewed by Iron Hill Lancaster
Style: Abt/Quadrupel
Lancaster, Pennsylvania USA

Serve in Trappist glass

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(750ml bottle, courtesy of thirdeye11) Pours a hazy amber body with a spare off-white head. Aroma of oak, cherry, raisins, vanilla, and wood. Flavor of oak, cherry, Belgian yeast, dark candi sugar, light chocolate, and caramel.

750ml bottle (RBSG). Poured a deeper amberish color with a small sized off white head. Aromas of cherries, dark fruits, wood, and candi sugar. Tastes of cherries, woody/oakiness, candi sugar, some funkiness, and vanilla.

Bottle shared by MrChopin. Pours clear ruby/brown with a medium, fizzy off-white head, medium-short retention with light lacing. Aroma is heavy malt (bread, cookie, caramel), light hops (floral), and average esters (fruity) with notes of cherry, oak, and dates. Flavor is heavy malt (bread, cookie, caramel), light hops (floral), and average esters (fruity) with notes of cherry, oak, and dates. Medium body, warmth, and carbonation with a dry and sour finish.

750 mL bottle shared by MrChopin at the 5/7/11 DC Ratebeer gathering. Pours a clear brownish red color with a thin white head. Decent head retention and lacing. Aroma of tart cherries, leafy vegetal notes and a dark malty finish. There taste is tart cherries, chocolate and a malty finish. Faint wood. Not too complex but very nice.

Bottle shared with Anker and traded via Axilla. The aroma is funky and fruity with a sour touch. Notes of dark fruits, cherries and toasted malt. The flavour is cherries, oak, ripe fruit, brown sugar and light roasted caramel. Complex but quaffable.

bottle, thanks to thirdeye11, amber brown pour with no foam, aroma is sweet musty cherries, flavors are sour lambic, earthy, cherries, nice lasting sour finish

750mL at RBSG 2011 in Philly. The pour is a flat cloudy pink. Nose is metallic and papery with intense medicinal cherry. Taste is sweet, medicinal, papery and chalky with metals. Pour palate. Ick.

Had this while camping at BCTC this year. Pours a hazed gold orange with a thin white head. Soft light cherry, dark malt, light brett. Light cherry, touch of nuttiness. Crisp lingering malt, and sweetness. Tasty stuff.

In short: An intense, oaky, tannic and slightly sour strong amber ale with a ton of cherries. Excellent sipper
How: Bottle 750ml shared at RBSG 2011 grand tasting
The look: Cloudy dark-amber body topped by a medium off-white head with good retention
In long: Nose is powerful, a bit wild/farmhouse, lots of cherries. Taste is sharp and very tannic, fresh red cherries, oaky sourness, some darker fruits. A bit sweeet at first but finish is abruptly saliva sucking. Alcohol absurdly well hidden. This is classified here on ratebeer as an Abt but the flavor profile is more like a Flemish Sour on steroids with extra cherries. Another strong big strong ale durign a big beer day. A very nice beer I was able to enjoy during the kick-ass Ratebeer Summer Gathering week-end. To me, the existence of the annual RBSG is the one proof that the internet can be used for more than watching porn, illegally downloading music & movies and watching videos of cute kittens doing adorable things.

Bottle @ Miami Fandango ’10 gathering. courtesy of gunhaver. pours dark amber, no head. Aroma, lots of cherry and oak with a touch of dark malts and candi sugar sweetness. Flavors, let this one warmed up a little bit and got a lot of oak with warming abv. Thick cherry, borderline on the black currants, hints of chocolate malts, Belgian yeast and dark sugar. Cherry tart aspect was rather thin possibly making room for the sweeter sugary palate. Finish keeps the same oaky notes and a long enjoyable cherry palate.