New Glarus Unplugged Belgian Quadruple

12 oz. Bottle via trade with AlexDeLarge - Pours a slightly hazy amber color with a one finger thick off white head. Very light spotty lacing. Aroma is a lightly sweetened bready malt and esters. Flavor is sweet malt, esters, light spices, alcohol, and faint oak. Palate is fairly soft and smooth even with the alcohol kick. Medium to full body. A pretty good beer. Thanks Jason.

Clear orangey mahogany. Quickly fading head. Rich, albeit a bit chaotic aroma. Sugary and oxidized with vanilla, nuts, ice cream (lactic), figs, grapes. Never juicy though – there’s a faint toastiness that border roast that sweeps that initial impression away. Full-bodied, sticky, low carbonation. An original creation, but despite the use of brett, it remained immensely sweet. Sweet, vinous, fruity and oaky. I don’t know what would make it easier to drink, perhaps tannins.

Pours sparkling clear copper, with a spongy, off-white head. The porous foam rose to two inches before slowly receding to a decent skim coat on the surface. The nose has a bready malt base, followed by red grapes, juniper berries, and fuselish cloves. The mouthfeel is on the sticky side of medium, fairly crisp, and tacky. The pallet has a malt base with a fair amount of residuals, ripe fruit, gin-infused bubblegum, and warming alcohols. Bitterness and all other hopping is minimal and balancing at best. Finishes with some heat on the back of the tongue, and a wince of quanine. A fairly straightforward Quad. Plenty quaffable, but restrained in nature.

Served in a Chimay chalice Wow, where to start! Pours a clear copper with a dense, frothy tan head. A beauty to behold. Aromas of Candy sugar, vanilla and yeasty, bready alcohol. The taste is maybe a little too sweet, but nothing some ageing won’t cure. Warm caramel, raisins and bready yeast flavors with a really nice warming alcohol. Soooo smooth it’s scarry. Very easy to find yourself downing a few too many and not realizing the alcohol because of the smoothness. Possibly one of the best releases from New Glarus. I can’t wait to try this after a few years.

Pours a crystal clear dark orange amber color. A small, foamy, cream colored head settles to a patchy film with random mounds of bubbles. Scattered flares and spots of lacing decorate the glass. The aroma is unlike and Quad I’ve ever had. Tart, dried cherries strike the nose first, followed by candy sugar, bourbon, oak and vanilla. Nutmeg and clove add hearty spices to the nose. The flavor is sweet and very fruit forward, with cherries striking and nerve on back of the tongue. Candy sugar provides ample quadruple sweetness to counteract the tart fruit. Vanilla smoothness balances out increasing alcoholic heat. Subdued nutmeg enhances the overall depth. The medium-full body is slightly syrupy, yet perfectly carbonated. The brew finishes with a short, intense rush of cherry sourness. This is as unique a Quad as you will find. Does anyone do cherry better than New Glarus? I think not. Very impressive.

Bottle from iowaherkeye on 01/08/08. Thanks! No indication of bottle age. Small to no head, but liquid has carbonation. Amber brandy color/appearance. Lots of melanoidins, and caramel buttery oakiness. A hint of banana in the aroma. Some bourbon and alcohol in the aroma detracts slightly. Very sweet (I like sweet). Tastes young, and I bet this would be great with some serious aging.

Honey colored beer with a thin white head. Vanilla and plum type aroma with a noticeable bourbony tang. Staggeringly delicious. Very fruity at the start with an outstanding oaky finish. Plenty of plum and cherry. Plenty of vanilla and bourbon. Plenty of awesome.

Pours a small head that falls into a thin layer with a nice lacing and a great color spectrum of golden to dark ruby red. There’s some sweetness initially, but then a light sourness comes in from the brett yeast balancing it out. I enjoy this more as the brett yeast comes out in the flavor.