 Scubatrip (316), Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
Dec 14, 2006
From the bottle, courtesy of Santa, pours an opaque muddy reddish color without much head. Very interesting aroma. Bananas, caramel, toffee, sweet malts, and I swear some coconut. The alcohol comes through immediately in the taste, and is supported by a bit of malt, as well as caramel and toffee, and just a hint of bitter hops at the end. There’s also some sugar in there, both candy and brown. It’s thicker, so like tripel I once homebrewed, I won’t ever plan on trying to drink more than two in a night. Now, I feel a bit compelled to add words to this rating in an effort to make the length of my rating at least as long as the commercial description above, but I’m not going to make numerous threatening threatening references to the U.N., nor am I going to just repeat "Screw Flanders" over and over until I reach 50 words. I’m bigger than that. Anyway, thanks Santa. This was a good one.
ilovedarkbeer (844), Dallas, Texas, USA
Oct 8, 2008 Bottle thanks to BMan1113VR via captaincougar. Looks: Dark copper with a small tope head. Nose: Booze, brandy, salt, paper, candied crystalized dates, very nice.
Taste: This is concentrated and layered, the multiple tiered flavors cascade on the palate. I get rum cake, soy sauce, booze, malt. Mouthfeel: Mouthcoating and warming. Pours the yeast and you get a nice nutty hazel nut taste with (surprise) some yeast.
BMan1113VR (1162), Los Angeles (and Dallas), Texas, USA
Oct 7, 2008 Bottle thanks to captaincougar. Drinking quite well right now. Pours with a small, off-white head that goes. Murky deep amber-brown body. Aroma is very boozy with brandy, plums, calvados, light soy, some slight carbonation and kirshwasser. Taste is malty and boozy with dark fruits, yeast, rum and biscuts. Syrupy mouthfeel, light bubbles, but quite thin for a quad.
thickfreakness (125), Austin, Texas, USA
Sep 23, 2008 Thanks to DocBrass on BA for this one. Taken from tasting notes. Pours bright orange with little head. Smell is fruity, slight cardboard, belgian yeast. Flavor is much of the same with a dominating fruity taste and a bit more of the cardboard/oxidation. The palate was pretty dissapointing; kind of flat already only after two years and kind of watery.
JCB (1124), Durham, USA
Jul 21, 2008 Tasted at the Carolina Crew gathering, Greenville - thanks to OldStyleCubFan for sharing! I’d like to have tried this beer when fresh, that’s for sure. The nose was strong fruity malts with some hints of smoke and peat in there that made me think this one was a strong Scotch ale masking as a quad. Typically warming malts emerged the deeper into it I got, but there was something slightly tart about this one, and I found the body to be too thin.
emacgee (1200), Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Jul 21, 2008 Pours a translucent solid copper with a thin orange head. The nose is lightly earthy, some belgian, warm, grainy, fruity. The flavor is lightly warm, fruity, a bit oxidized, basement malty taste. Warm palate. Age probably hasn’t done this well.
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