 anders37 (2515), Malmö, Sweden
May 7, 2008
Bottle. Pours a slightly hazy amber color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity spicy malty aroma with hints of yeast and alcohol. Sweet malty warming and slightly burning malty spicy yeasty flavor. The finish is long warming malty with some spicy yeasty alcohol hints in the aftertaste. A few years in the celler and it would have been even better.
can8ianben (582), Pasadena, California, USA
Aug 3, 2008 I’ve had this, but apparently never put in a rating...
So we’ll keep it average for now, and if I get a chance to sample it again we’ll change things up.
Beerlando (1184), Orlando, Florida, USA
Aug 3, 2008 Bottle, aged about 1.5 years. Pours a hazy copper-caramel color with a small, foamy, beige colored head. Soapy lacing slowly drips back towards the body, some of it drying in place before it completes its journey. A swirl of the glass reveals viscous, sugary legging. The aroma reveals a bevy of dark, sweet, fruity notes. Golden raisons and dates meet notes of caramel, brown sugar, and various dark spices. Flavors are again sugary sweet, but with a touch of floral hop bitterness making it more palatable. Boozy and bordering on liquor-like status, this one is not for the faint of heart, and the thick, viscous, sugary body is further proof of that. Ultimately too hot and alcoholic, even at this age, this is a nice attempt at a Belgian Quad that was just taken a bit over the top. Its a decent dessert brew to share amongst 10 or so friends, but otherwise too big for my liking.
allfreej (276), Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Aug 1, 2008 Bottled 27 July 2007 (1 year old). Cloudy caramel pour, tan lacy head, caramel toffee nose. Flavor was caramel, malt, spice, orange peel, toast. The finish was semi-sweet, a a little bit of hop bitterness, with a rich, slightly sticky mouthfeel.
rallison (37), USA
Jul 31, 2008 Bottled on August 10th, 2006, making this just shy of 2 years old.
Caramel color body with a beautiful 2 finger white head that leaves a ton of lacing. One delicious looking beer.
Caramel, candied fruits and green apple in the aroma. Decent, but the green apple is slightly off-putting.
The taste, however, redeems. Caramel integrates well with beautiful, mellow rum-soaked fruits. Alcohol is warming but never sharp. "Liquid Luxury," as stated on the label? That’s actually a fair statement.
Creamy, nicely carbonated mouthfeel. Rich, but finishes with a nice amount of carbonation to clean the palate.
Highly recommended. I’ve always thought this was quite solid fresh; it is nice to know it ages well too.
General_Gao (2405), Iowa City, Iowa, USA
Jul 28, 2008 750ml bottle. The aroma was of spices (cinnamon & clove), toffee, dark fruits, and alcohol. Poured a cloudy orange brown color. The head was bubbly and off white (in a yellowish Crime & Punishment kind of way). It reduced rapidly to a ring and no lace was left behind. Medium to full bodied and slightly sweet. Carbonation was on the higher end of the spectrum. Plenty of alcohol flavor and warming effect that increased toward the end. The flavor palate included the likes of raisin, toffee, plum, apple, cinnamon, and white wine. I was a little skeptical at first, but this was and is a delicious beer.
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