La Trappe Quadrupel Oak Aged Batch #5

Formerly brewed at De Koningshoeven (Bavaria - Netherlands)
Style: Abt/Quadrupel
Berkel-Enschot, Netherlands

Serve in Trappist glass

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bottle dark brown colored beer with a white head aroma malts caramel dark fruits dry fruits spicy and oak flavor malts caramel spicy oak dark fruits dry fruits and some hops

Bottle at Fermentoren. Pours a hazy brown with an offwhite head. Smells of caramel, brown sugar, white wine, spices. Tastes of a heavy sweetness, mild tart, some acidity, mild bitter. Medium bodied, soft carbonation, syrupy texture. The initial taste was much stronger on the white wine, esp compared to the dregs of #4 I had just finished. Mouthfeel is still quite white wine.

Bottled. Dark amber coloured. Dense light beige head. Dense aroma of ripe fruits, wood, spice, light medicin, caramel. flavour of ripe fruits, spice, medicin. dense wood,c aramel, alcohol. Medium to full bodied. ends on a ripe fruity note.

Dry white wine. Sweet raisin. Hazy orange off-white creamy. Medium-full. Alcohol hidden. Good one.

Dark brown coloured beer with lots of carbonation and a medium off white head. Yeasty banana fruity with some spicy hinted sweet malty aroma’s. Full light creamy tingling palate. Finish is roasted sweet bitter malty and creamy with a longer light yeasty fruity and alcoholic hinted taste. Ending is a very subtile burn of alcohol at the back of the throath. Creamy beer with some very subtile flavours.

010811: A fantastic and exciting aged beer. dry white wine aroma. Rich delicious flavor with good notes from the cask.

Bottle 375ml. @ The Danish Summer Gathering, TFODRBSG11.

Clear medium to dark amber colour with a average to large, frothy, good lacing, fully lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, caramel, wood - oak, alcohol, grape - fruity wine notes. Flavour is moderate to heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a long duration, sweet malt, dried berry sweet, wood - barrel, ripped fruity yeasty, grape - fruit wine notes. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft, finish feel is light alcoholic. [20110820]

A clear light brown colored beer, with a smaal beige head. The aroma of fruits with tonsel, light notes of wood, some wine notes. The taste of sweet fruits, some tonsel a little alcohol. The aftertaste sweet with alcohol.

UPDATED: JAN 22, 2013 22nd September 2011
On tap at Bier Temple, Amsterdam. Slightly hazy amber beer, small white head. Smooth semi dry palate with mild fine carbonation, Sweetish malt with some dried fruit. Quite a lot of estery bubblegum. Dry woody finish. Not really getting this batch. Unsatisfying. Original rating 2.7.

2nd March 2012.
A bottle this time. Cloudy brown beer, small pale tan head. Smooth palate with nice fine carbonation. Smooth mild caramel with estery bubblegum that isn’t too sweet. Holding it together is a nicely integrated red wine (red wine?) vibe that has Port like cherry and blackcurrant. A little spice and a trace of wood. Semi dry finish. Very nicely integrated.

Bottle @ FOneFan. Dark amber with medium tan head. Flavour is malt, yeast, dried fruit, caramel, little white wine, hops and sweet.