Sante Adairius Rustic Ales Four Legs Good

Four Legs Good

 

Sante Adairius Rustic Ales in Capitola, California, United States 🇺🇸

  Belgian Style - Quadrupel / Dark Strong Regular
Score
7.56
ABV: 9.9% IBU: - Ticks: 34
What do a three-legged dog, a made-up beer style, and a giant oak cask have to do with each other? One great beer. Four Legs Good, our Blond Quad, belies its sweet nature with a dry, full finish and sneaky strength. Fermented first in puncheons with extensive aging in oak foudres, Four Legs Good doesn’t care what you call it as long as she is along for the ride. Four Legs Good, three legs better. Sante!
 

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7
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Bottle courtesy of André. Hazy burnt golden pour with a frothy tan head. Bread, caramel, lemon juice, red pears & light funk in the nose. Tiny sweet, tiny bitter, slightly sour, malty, fruity & funky taste. Soft, round, slightly dry & tiny tart mouthfeel. Pleasant acidity but a bit heavy on the esters.

Tried from Bottle on 24 Oct 2017 at 03:28


7

Pleasant acidity. Bit heavy on the pomme esters.

Tried from Bottle at Gyllene Korven on 29 Sep 2017 at 23:55


7.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Thanks James for sharing the bottle! Poured into a snifter showing well filtered golden yellow with no head and light caramel tones. The nose shows moderately intense tart notes of brett and horseblanket. The palate is light bodied and well carbonated. Highly tart with a subtle sweetness and mild Belgian yeast influence that shows throughout. No alcohol bite despite the high ABV.

Tried from Bottle on 03 Sep 2017 at 21:21


7.9
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

750mL from Popway, thanks!, drunk 7/8 and 7/9/17.
Starting this one at the end of the night proved difficult/stupid, so we opened it back up the next morning and it still poured a very nicely-carbonated, lightly hazy, bronze-honey golden with a medium-sized, firm, off-white head.
Soft yellow fruits in the nose emanate from what I assume to be the various yeast and bacteria. There's nothing aggressive here, though and it's easily and well-balanced by rich layers of vanilla, honey and graham cracker-like malts that work nicely in conjunction with the yellow fruit. A moderate amount of lactic acidity builds up on the finish, helping to dry things out while light oak provides more vanilla and fruit. No alcohol or flaw noted.
A well-balanced blend of fruity Brett, mild lactic acid and strong nectarine, apricot and peach with just a slight kick of acetic acid and moderate oak tannins to give it a lightly sour, but not aggressive, edge. Rich malts are soft and sumptuous but neither they nor the oak are overdone. Moderate, tight carbonation that lasted perfectly overnight. Seemed to get even better the next day.

Tried on 31 Aug 2017 at 16:06


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Capped 750 from Cap Tap. Pours hazy orange tinged gold with a slight white head. Aroma is sour/acidic - arguably with some pale stone fruit. Near med body. Flavor is sour/acidic, but there’s a brief moment when fruit sweetness seems to come through. It’s funky tho. Finally there’s earthy oak astringency. Pretty acidic, but tolerable.

Tried from Draft on 20 Aug 2017 at 18:38


8.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8

Pretty good sour although nothing exceptional. Aroma is really good, very fragrant with lots of spice Funk yeast, Oak. Flavor’s like nose, fairly dry, quite tangy, with oak in the finish. Great body.

Tried on 24 Jul 2017 at 18:38


8

Duzo owocow (agres, biale porzeczki), sianowata kwasnosc taka, jest tez slodycz jakas taka... dosc kosmiczne i calkiem pyszne. Cytrynowe

Tried at Chmielarnia Marszałkowska on 09 Jul 2017 at 15:50


7
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Sampled from bottle at kermis’ German trophy tasting. Hazy amber with thin white ring head. Sour grains, sour grapes, grapestone, almond, white raisans, lactic sour. Light sweet and moderate bitter, quite strong sour. Medium body, soft carbonation. Quite alcoholic, sour fruitjuice.

Tried from Bottle on 09 Jun 2017 at 16:00


6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6

Bottle shared thanks to Maakun. Very hazy orange with a ring off white head. Aroma of citrus, light funk, oak barrel, caramel and lactic notes. Flavour is light moderate sweet and heavy sour. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.

Tried from Bottle on 09 Jun 2017 at 15:58