The Bruery/Blue Jacket Washington O.C. Ale

Brewed by The Bruery
Style: Abt/Quadrupel
Placentia, California USA

Serve in Trappist glass

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Draft. Hazy amber brown pour, small light tan head. Dark fruit, sugar, yeast, plum, banana, and bubble gum. Nothing special.

Draft at Churchkey. Poured a slightly hazy orange color with a small white head. Aroma was light fruits, with sweet malts, sugars. A tad sweet, but notes of light malts, sweet fruits, creamy notes. Alright.

Draft. Pours amber with a beige head. Dark fruity sweetness, spicy yeast, sweet malts, and a plummy sweet finish. Good stuff.

On tap @ Churchkey. Poured a cloudy amber with reddish hues, medium tan head that dissapated quickly, and notable lacing. Aroma includes banana, bubblegum, pear, and figs. Taste is fruit-forward leading with dark fruits followed by bready malt and slight booziness on the finish. Nice alcohol warming in the mouth with flavors lingering on the palate.

Pouring at Belgian Beer Fest. Pours a hazed amber with ruby highlights under a thin white head. Warm and boozy, plums and oxidized fruit, old bananas. Banana bread sweetness. Medium bodied, big fruit, bananas and cloves. Plum and prune, chewy malt, toast and oxidization. Warm but not too boozy. Malt, oxidization and plums.

Sample at Bruery Provisions. The beer pours a murky dark brown color with a medium beige head that diminishes slowly. Small patches of lacing. Aroma of malt, dark fruit and yeast. Full-bodied with a rich malty character and notes of figs, caramel and yeast. The finish is sweet with a fruity malt aftertaste. Decent all around.

Frothy tab head over a hazy brown beer. Nose is medium dark fruit, fruit forward beer that is nicely balanced with malt and just a little hops in the finish.

murky chestnut, no head. Nose is oxidized, burnt toffee with bubblegum. Flavor is sweet, watery and thin, bubblegum through end, low profile, muted, sticky, but burnt.

Draft. Murky dark amber body, small beige head. Aroma is moderately sweet, cotton candy, some orange, plum. Taste is sweet, plum, some orange, cotton candy. Sticky medium-full body. I found this one too sweet.

On tap at Churchkey. Sample served in a snifter. Pours a very murky muddy brown color with a short head and just a few spots of lacing. Nose has dark fruits and a bit of plum. Flavor is semi-sweet and a bit boozy. Brown sugar and fig. Medium body; a bit creamy. Plum heavy as it warms. A bit too one-dimensional and lacking the depth of a good quad.