Weyerbacher Quad

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

Serve in Trappist glass

Thanks, kiefdog for the share. Holy alcohol burn, Batman! Pours a brown gold with a nose of dates and figs that can be smelled across the room. Sugary dark fruit, is also present. Don’t stick your nose too far in or the alcohol will burn off a few hairs. Flavor is as expected with the nose as it is. Syrupy beer with apple, plum, and alcohol flavor. Not the typical quad, but massive is a good word for it. Left me ambivalent, but I am positive that I don’t want to session it.

12oz bottle from Liquor Depot (Tampa, FL). Pours a clear dark amber to copper color with a thin white head that settles quickly to nothing. Aroma is sweet and malty with notes of maple syrup, caramel, honey, some hints of fresh ripe fruit. Some medicinal notes like cough syrup. Flavor is malty and syrupy with notes of dark fruit, caramel, raisins, plums and ripe apple, strong phenol notes. Generally syrupy mouthfeel with a strong alcohol finish. Leaves a burning sensation in my throat. This is a strange beer for the style.

Pours a deep burnt orange color with a small thin white head that recedes quickly. Some sticky lacing is left behind on the glass. The aroma shows notes of caramel, dark fruit, plums, and a dose of alcohol. The flavor is very sweet with the caramel soaked fruits, raisins, vanilla cream, and alcohol all blending together. Medium-full bodied mouthfeel and sticky. There is a good amount of alcohol heat on this one as it goes down. A lot of sweetness going on, but not terribly complex. Pretty decent quad, but just a little boozy for me.

This was a throw-in from Zach8270 in the big trade we made, what a throw-in! Dark orange, thin but constant white head. Aroma is big like a barley wine. Contains alcohol, plums, cough syrup. Palate is sweet and sour, sour mash, some heavy maltiness. Dry finish, this isn’t bad, it just reminds me more of a barley wine than a quad. Thanks for the trade!

12oz, guessing at least a year old probably closer to 2, via trade a long time ago. Pours deep orange with a tan head. Nose is sweet, and despite the age, the nose is still quite like rubbing alcohol. Taste is sweet and slightly lighter than I expected. The nose and the taste are totally out of sync. Additionally its very smooth for the alcohol though there is a touch of punch in the end. A strange quad indeed.

Bottle, at least a number of months old, a couple years for all I know. Aroma of raisins, plums, apples, pears, caramel malt. Flavor again both fruity and malty, far more complex and not nearly as overbearingly sweet as I expected from a 41st percentile quad. Enjoyable and interesting.

Bottle. Nose is sweet with an odd undertone of something just shy of caramel and a bit of alcohol. Murky brown with little head. Yeasty fruit notes with very little spice. Sweet, somewhat appropriately, but without much depth. Slightly hard to drink, syrupy and thick. Maybe my expectations were a bit high after some raving by others, but I’m not particularly with this as a quadrupel.

Bottle. [Trade with hopscotch and the Florida Crew, thanks buddy] Average beige creamy head that mostly diminished. Fair display of lacework. Light cloudy amber color. Aroma of fruit, yeast, alcohol, dried fruit, mild citrus, and a hint of Port Wine. Over the palate came dates, raisins, and some malty notes as well mixed again with the dried fruity feel. Medium bodied with an average carbonation and alcoholic texture. Heavy sweet flavor. Lingering warming light raisins fruity mild spicy finish.