Quadrupel (Laphroaig BA)
Oriel Beer in Bucharest, București - Ilfov, Romania 🇷🇴
Belgian Style - Quadrupel / Dark Strong Regular|
Score
7.02
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Gold awarded recipe, the 4th batch of quadrupel was split in two different 190 l whisky barrels. Beautiful brown color with impressive peat aromas and iodine, dried prunes, liquorice, followed by a savoury complexity with vanilla notes, wood, salt, spices and fading ashes. Aged for 8 months in the barrel, the synthesis of the beer, wood and time create a complex specialty beer.
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8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Darkest brown, faint ruby highlights, beige head. The aroma is, as you'd expect, all salty peat, smoke and band aid. Barely any malts coming through, just some spicy alcohol. The taste: here the peat is more indulgent to the Quad - some dark fruit, caramel and toasted bread crust is there, before the peat kicks. The alcohol and ashes finish the beer nicely. In the end, the peaty barrel is flamboyant, no doubt, but it steals too much from the excellent straight Quadrupel. Overall, a very good one.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Jan 2020
at 10:39