4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
12 oz bottle courtesy of fordest. pours a copper color with a small off-white head. The aroma is raisins and plums. The taste shows rock candy with big fruit note, more fruity than sweet, a very nice balance. The mouthfeel is full and malty. The finish is long with lingering ripe plums. Overall: not your typical Belgian quad, but very flavorful and enjoyable.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Sample @ BBF 08, Boston. Pours a reddish-brown with a medium off-white head. Aroma is heavy raisins with detectable alcohol. Taste is raisin, malt, and a noticeable alcohol burn at the end. The flavors are not as bold or complex as you’d expect from the best in this style.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Pours with three quarter inch head, leaving some lace. Body is amber, with a slight tint of orange. Nose of rum, raisins, and sherry.
The taste is sweet at first, with some fruitiness. Then the rum like alcohol rears its head. This is a sweet, malty beer. The mouthfeel is smooth, and lightly carbonated. I have enjoyed this one more than the first time I had this. But I will not drink my other samples for several months. The sweetness reveals the youth of this beer.
Serving type: bottle
Reviewed on: 11-17-2005 07:23:37
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle. Pours light red brown with a beige head. Fruity aroma, with raisin and plum, as well as a bit of candy sugar. The flavor is sweet, with raisin and a bit of a boozy burn. Not bad.
3.2 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
bottle. Pours a light amber, transparent, with a small white head. Intense aroma of malt, ripe fruit, and hops. Flavor sits in mouth full of fruit, malt, and woody notes, but quickly recedes in favor of malty sweetness coupled with a powerful alcoholic punch. This beer tastes far too young, since before any real complexity can come through, QUAD bites back with quite a bite. Perhaps if allowed to sit for a year of so more balanced could be achieved.
4 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 17/20
Pours amber with a small head. Aroma is caramel, toffee, fruit. Nice sweet flavor, the alcohol is there.
3.5 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
bottle into a snifter. great fruity aroma. Deep smells it was very good. Taste was fruit with some caramel but then there was just overpowering amount of alcohol that burns all the way down and lingers in your stomach and completely kills the taste which I think would have been excellent.
3.1 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Bomber from BOTW (Rochester), served at cellar temperature in a tulip glass.
App.: Clear, fairly deep copper, with a decent light tan head.
Aroma: Lots of raisins and dark dried fruits with some salty, meaty notes, peaches, other fruitiness, some alcohol, lighter caramel and nuts,
Palate: Medium+ body, soft carbonation.
Flav.: Like the nose, lots of dark dried fruits, caramel, toffee and treacle, some brown sugar, a bit of warm, stinging alcohol, a bit nutty, a little vanilla; quite sweet with some bitterness and plenty of alcohol to finish.
Doesn’t hold up well to the better examples of the style. Needs more body and malt to properly support the alcohol. Come off as harsh and unrefined.
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