Weyerbacher Quad

Brewed by Weyerbacher Brewing Co.
Style: Abt/Quadrupel
Easton, Pennsylvania USA

Serve in Trappist glass

4th May 2008. Smooth and very sweet ale with that Belgian bubblegumness that is really something else not bubblegum. Offset by an underlying bitterness. Very drinkable.

Color of dark orange, just this side of rose-colored. Finger of flat head. Murky, though the other side can be viewed. Actually gets more cloudy by the minute. The smell is a terrific spicy Belgian aroma, with hints of citrus and orange peel and coriander. Appears to have a hint of strong alcohol. Bursting with additional flowery scents. Excellent. Taste is a strong blast of pungent alcohol with a spicy end. A double punch of alcohol, then flowery, spicy esters. Grassy. Citrus and orange not present. Really really strong. The feel is bubbly with a burn on the way down. Warms the belly. Thick like apple juice. This one’s a choker; thick and bursting with alcohol. One and done.

bottle, pours a hazy light brown with a thin white head and lots of floating yeast. Aroma is sugary with some floral notes and honey. Nice sweet pale malt and honey flavor with light raisin and fig in the finish. Really a nice sweet and minimally bitter quad.

As soon as the bottle was opened there was a noticeable alcohol scent which carried into the glass. This is a deep copper to light brown ale at about 17-19 SRM with considerable carbonation within its murky confines. The head was off white and diminished quickly. It has a light crisp alcohol taste with hints of your grandmother’s loaf of rising bread on the windowsill. Not as complex as I would like to see with a brief finish. Make sure you drink this at warmer temps to appreciate fully.

From dmac via trade. Poured cloudy and brown with a few thin off-white bubbles that struggled to make a full head. The aroma was brown sugar, raisin and a whiff of booze. The flavor was bready and sweet with some darker fruits and a nice surge of warming alcohol towards the finish. Almost medium in body and a bit oily.

UPDATED: MAR 20, 2011 2002 12oz bottle aged the better part of 7 years. The aroma has turned outright port-like, rich alcohol and dark fruit overload. There is still a little carbonation, though certainly tapered off a bit. Brown sugar, dark fruit, and raisin flavor, maybe a touch of vanilla. This is some sipping beer, brutal but tasty. Really reminds me of Port wine, but is more drinkable. Hard to say if it really improved with age, as there are aspects I like about the fresh version as well. The rating is sort of inaccurate and unfair, because I would probably rate the fresh version higher.

This was an enormous, potent beer. Got a bottle at New Beer Distributors in NYC. Poured a hazy, bright honey-amber with a fluffly, lingering head. Nose of honey, brown sugar, and dark fruits such as cherries, figs, and raisins. Flavor is at first quite sweet but then gives way to the alcohol, which warms the palette is a nice way. Notes of cane sugar and raisin abound in this beer. Pretty smooth and has a nice body. I don’t think I could drink two of these back-to-back. This is powerful stuff.

Pours a murky light brown. Nose is big raisin, fig, alcohol, cherry, sweet fruit, brown sugar. Flavor is booze soaked fruit, marachino cherries, plum, fig and massive amounts of raisin. You know you are drinking a 12% beer. They don’t hide that booze at all.