Iron Hill Oaked Quadfather with Brett

Brewed by Iron Hill North Wales
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
North Wales, Pennsylvania USA

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

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Tap at Maple Shade, Bourbon, Barrels and Bugs. Pours a ruby reddish/light brown color, with a small lacing white head. Aroma is of Brett, dried fruits, funk and some earth. Taste is very complex, rich malty notes, dried fruits, some tart notes, light barnyard, and a slight touch of alcohol, but that remained rather well hidden. pretty awesome.

Sampled courtesy of gunhaver at the Miami Throwdown. Pours dark caramel brown with almost no off-white head. Nose is horse blanket, malt, sugar, cherries, fruit, brett, and some sweetness trying to get through. Flavor is similar with interesting brettified versions of the nose. Glad I tried it.

Found this at a Brewer’s Reserve event with Flying Fish in Maple Shade NJ. I imagine it’s been aging quite awhile. It poured dark ruby in color with a very thin head. Aroma of oak, vanilla, fruit. Flavor is very tart as expected with the wood and wine flavors coming through. Very nice finish.

A surprise on-tap treat at North Wales. I bemoaned a while ago the scarcity of this beer, and here it is on tap when I didnt even know going in! Claer chestnut, reddish tinge, a soapy head. Really a lot of oak in the nose, and some faint cherries. Flacor was just a blast of brettonamyces, at first somehat off-putting but growing really delicious as the beer breathed. A little undercarbonated for my taste. Awesome.

In short: Some kind of very complex funky Flemish Sour on steroids. Wicked and totally original
How: Hand-bottle drank with Dickinsonbeer. Paul is my idol
The look: Cloudy redish-brown body topped by a small beige head
In long: Nose is funky, woody and tropical fruits. From the nose I was already thrown off, just plain different. Taste is out-there. This one mixes lots of oak, medium sourness, wild bretty funkiness, cherries skin, spicy notes, almonds, refreshing tropical fruits and I could go on and on. Take a La Folie, remove the heavier malt flavours (chocolate and such) and put a whole lot of funk instead and that’s what you get. Drank it and noted a mid-4 rating. Then obsessed about it for a week even after drinking the entire Blind Tiger dry. A unique experience. I’ll remember that beer until the day I die. Or for another 2 years. Whichever comes first. No waging please.

Bottle shared by ogglethorp. Reddish orange pour with no head. Musty malt aroma, some sour elements and light lemon. Light sour notes in the flavor, spices, caramel malt, lemon zest. Medium body, bitter/malty with a tart finish.

Hand-bottled courtesy of axilla. Copper color, absolutely no head or carbonation whatsoever, unusual to me for a beer with Brett. Tastes like a quadrupel with Brett. Amazing combination. Very malty, bit of a spicy finish. Lingered for awhile on the tongue, quite a balanced flavor. I really enjoyed this. It’s a great experiment of combining the sour aspects of Brett with a Quadrupel beer. I hope to see more of the same!

Hand bottled and tasted on 22 mar 08. Deep copper color. Sour aroma, hints of anise seed. Flavor is very bready, wood, vanilla. Some sourness, but lots of dough. Dry, medium body.

Appearance: Pours a clearish, amber body with a few stray bubbles here and there. Smell: Aroma of bread, almonds, used oak, and dried cherries mutated by funkifying Brett. Taste: Some malts, some sweetness, but the flavor is intensely Bretty *and* bready. Sour cherry fruitiness. Hint of almonds. Dry, funky finish that lingers on the tongue awhile. Mouthfeel: Medium-bodied. Almost no carbonation. Drinkability: It’s certainly unique. Please, by all means, give it a try if you come across it.

Brewery: Iron Hill - All
Date: 03/22/2008
Mode: Hand Bottled
Source: Tasting, Cellar Party

Appearance: clear dark amber, scant head,
Aroma: fruity malt aroma, touch of sweetness is balanced by the bretty funk,
Flavor: rich malt flavor, strong fruity character is balanced by the drying brett, light bitterness, brett keeps growing to take over, caramel sweetness comes back in to combat the brett, fruity tartness adds another dimension, light bitterness,

Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 8/10; Palate: 7/10; Overall: 16/20
Rating: 3.9/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: **4