Motley Cru 2013
Bellwoods Brewery in Toronto, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦
Belgian Style - Quadrupel / Dark Strong Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.37
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Having gone through an initial fermentation, a fermentation with wild yeast, and refermentation in the bottle with champagne yeast, this beer is effectively triple fermented.
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Robinvboyer (8037) reviewed Motley Cru 2013 from Bellwoods Brewery 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
750ml bottle. Great artwork....as usual. Gorgeous mahogany pour, with an ample beige head. Earthy, leathery aroma, mixed with tart apples, and general funkiness. Hints of toffee, and molasses, and some tobacco. The carb is a little over the top, but it mellows as the beer warms. The mouthfeel is spot on. The finish is funky, but extremly rich in dark, sweet fruits. The malts and chewy, bready, but also subtle. The dark fruit reall comes through As the beer warms, and the funk is evident and cuts the sweetness. The alcohol is extremely well hidden, this is a gorgeous sipping beer.
Boutip (9769) reviewed Motley Cru 2013 from Bellwoods Brewery 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle: Poured a murky light brown/reddish color ale with a large foamy head with great retention and some lacing. Aroma of vinous notes with some tart notes and dry fruits and caramel malt notes is quite astonishing. Taste is also a great mix of tart and vinous notes with clearly identifiable oak and cherry notes with some caramel malt and dry fruits notes also perceptible. Body is full with good carbonation (bottle was a bit of a gusher) and alcohol was not perceptible. This open has aged gracefully and this is extremely well brewed and something the brewer should consider brewing again.
Whatup14 (3019) reviewed Motley Cru 2013 from Bellwoods Brewery 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bouteille 750ml, 168/599, gracieuseté de wilco. Thanks Mike!. Couleur acajou presque opaque avec des reflets pourpre, mousse moka pâle ressemblant à de la créma et laissant une belle dentelle. Arôme vineux, noisette, malt grillé, sucre à la crème, alcool, brett léger. Goût vineux, boisé, malt grillé, caramel, fruité, légère acidité, figues séchées, alcool. Carbonatation moyenne, corps moyen-dense.
Travlr (30173) reviewed Motley Cru 2013 from Bellwoods Brewery 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle at DC Epic Sour Tasting 2014, courtesy of solidfunk, thank you sir! Hazy amber maroon color. Fruity aroma. Taste is sour and a bit medicinal. OK.
solidfunk (21946) reviewed Motley Cru 2013 from Bellwoods Brewery 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Awesome quad with light bretta. Great balance. Brown pour with good head and lacing. Floral yeast, with plum and prune and raisin. Finishes with some light sour and barrel. Great stuff. Bottle saved from release last year and shared at Epic Sour Tasting in DC.
iphonephan (11575) reviewed Motley Cru 2013 from Bellwoods Brewery 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
From a bottle shared at the DC Epic Sour Beer Tasting. Thanks solidfunk! Pours a hazy amber with an ecru head. Flavors of caramel and tart cherry. Hints of plums. Tart finish.
Ferris (26026) reviewed Motley Cru 2013 from Bellwoods Brewery 12 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle - Vinous, grassy and bret funk. Clear copper with a nice beige head. Bitter and sour bret, caramel, orange, boozy and a sour caramel finish. This doesn’t work for me, may need some more time in the bottle.
mcberko (47456) reviewed Motley Cru 2013 from Bellwoods Brewery 12 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
750mL bottle, sent from wilco (thanks a lot, Mike), pours a deep dark amber with a large white head. Aroma brings out candied sugar, tart fruits, and Belgian yeast. Flavour brings out complex notes of candied sugar, dark fruits (plums), some slight sourness, some woody barrel notes, and Belgian yeast. Very elegant and well-balanced flavours, with more quad notes than sour. Alcohol is not noticeable other than a slight warming effect. Great stuff.
jtclockwork (20061) reviewed Motley Cru 2013 from Bellwoods Brewery 12 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle at brewdown. Pours reddish brown with off white head. Nose and taste of plum, caramelized sugar, vanilla, oak, dark fruit and candy. Medium-Full bodied.