Doublecross (unbarreled)
Crux Fermentation Project in Bend, Oregon, United States 🇺🇸
Belgian Style - Quadrupel / Dark Strong Regular|
Score
7.00
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Tasting Notes
Malty aromas perfume the air with every mahogany-hued pour. Decadent dried fruit tones carry on the full-bodies swig, with dried plum, cherry, and raisin mingling with pumpernickel notes. A kiss of spice and cola rise on the end for a delicious Dr. Pepper-like finish, further obscuring a genuinely surprising 11% ABV.
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
Can. Brown beer with a tan head. caramel and yeast aroma with light banana. Caramel and spice flavor with yeast and banana. Medium bodied. caramel and banana linger with spice, yeast, and light dark fruit.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle. Pours dark, reddish brown, with a medium, fizzy, beige head that lingers. The aroma is leather, earth, toffee, plums, dates, and cocoa. Sweet and very malty, with a light, spicy bitterness. Just a little boozy. Heavy body, with a chalky, thick mouthfeel. This is a solid, very malt-forward, and delicious quad. Just a little too much roast, or it would be excellent.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
On tap at Baileys taproom. Pours a clear red brown color with a small white head. A big sweet fruity vinous nose. The flavor is big Belgian candy, banana yeast. Pretty good.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle - pours lightly hazy purple - nose of caramelized sugars, plums, raisin, phenols if clove, pepper, smoke- creamy texture, low carbonation - sweet, but not cloyingly so, with well-masked alcohol, and a light tartness and finishing earthy a spicy phenolic profile that balances the sweetness well - well-executed for an American rendition.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Draft EBF - NEED LABEL - Pours reddish amber - Nose/taste of candy sugar, fruit cake, spice, grape - medium body.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Draft - Raisin, some plum and dark sugars. Hazy maroon with a decent beige head. Some cherry and plum notes with some dark sugars. Not bad.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
On Tap at the Bend BP Finally a beer here with a few more SRM points. Rich deep mahogany with a thin line around the edge. Soft toasted malt with dark fruit notes. Big sweet dark maltiness. Ripe dark fruit and thick sweet malts from teh candi sugars. A touch of coffee. A rish wett sipper and the 11% will get you.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Clear amber-brown, appley, winey character, soft, apple, pear, subtle alcohol late. Has a good barrelly character. Nothing special but a nice experiment.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
375mL capped bottle poured into Duvel tasting glass. Small but thick head atop a ruby body. I think this is the best American Belgian Strong I have had in a while (not sure this is a quad). Esters are held almost fully at bay. Sweet, slightly hot raisin and cherry present but appropriately balanced by a sugar and date sweetness. No nasty astringent character, which can happen in a big beer like this. I think the sweetness works well for the beer. Walks the fine line of alcohol and sweetness but not too much on either side. Not overly sugar and well managed yeastiness. This will be a rebuy.
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
375ml bottle pours out a mahogany topped with a sand head. Nose is sweetness pit fruit belg yeast and some rich malts. Taste is as the nose with a good amount of sweetness belg yeast and candy fruit.