Quadrupel-Donker
De Nachtraafbrouwers in Diksmuide, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Quadrupel / Dark Strong Regular|
Score
7.04
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Zijn smaak is vol en zachtzoet, met toetsen van karamel, gebrande mout en koffielikeur.
Deze topper van het Nachtraafgamma durft de competitie aan met de wereldvermaarde donkere Belgische Trappistenbieren.
EBC 50.
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Fin (18365) reviewed Quadrupel-Donker from De Nachtraafbrouwers 8 months ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle picked up from Dranken Vandewoude Veurne, Belgium. Shared the beer with Jonas and Ursula at home Friday 16th May 2025, listening to Stars of the Lid - And Their Refinement of the Decline. Pours mid, dark brown, good charity, typically Belgian, soft mouthfeel, spicy and whilst a little sweet (compared to previous beers from Schneeeule & Kykao) liked it.
jhaase (14816) reviewed Quadrupel-Donker from De Nachtraafbrouwers 8 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Big bottle, thanks Fin & Loz! Bright ruby red Brown, offwhite head. Dusty roast, wooden, licorice , nice dry Belgian yeast, medium full roast, bready, quite chewy dry bread mouthfeel, foamy in the back.Licorice root, honey, dark sugar, cedar wood finish, quite nice balance.
CBarley (1462) reviewed Quadrupel-Donker from De Nachtraafbrouwers 8 months ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Bottle. Dark deep red. Malt, raisins. Odd front heavy, then smooth long creamy. Boozy creamy raisins. Wood earthy. Warm. Not bad.
EvNa (6056) reviewed Quadrupel-Donker from De Nachtraafbrouwers 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle, 75 cl. Color: Clear golden, beige head. Aroma: Raisins, caramel fudge. Taste: Sweet, malty, raisins, dark dried fruit and red fruit notes, caramel, fudge. Boozy, warming mouthfeel. Full body, just below average carbonation. Getting better and more complex when standing longer. Ok.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
The courteous people at Finest Belgian Beers provided me with this 33 cl bottle. I am utilizing my Chimay glass for this sampling, the lid is off and I pour. I see a dark cordovan brown liquid with a consistent, creamy head of eggshell brown foam. The nose is appealing, figs, yeast, bread and cane syrup. But I'm here for the taste so let's go. Ah, a good first impression, I get malt, dates, dark raisins, wheat bread, caramel and some wood. Earthy and slightly sweet with a nice fullness. A very decent offering in my favorite style.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Quadrupel-Donker from De Nachtraafbrouwers 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
The quadrupel in this series of new Diksmuide beers, bottle from De Centrale, a local beershop there. Very thick, frothy, fluffy, tightly and thickly paper-lacing, very stable, pale greyish white head on an initially near-clear, deep copper-hued mahogany beer with bright ruby red glow, misty with sediment. Aroma of hard caramel candy, bubblegum, rum-soaked raisins, soggy cookies, baked banana, raisin bread, dried figs, brown sugar, tea, touches of iron, rainwater and plastic. Sweet onset, brown sugariness but nowhere too cloying (at least for the intended style), bubblegummy isoamylacetate, dried banana, fig and freshly cut sweet red apple impressions, medium carbonation adding very light minerally side notes, full and smooth, bit resinous mouthfeel; very caramelly malt body, slick and rounded, with a light toffeeish and bready side to it, lingering bubblegum on top, all leading to a moderately hoppy finish, a bit herbal and tea-like and remaining altogether soft in bitterness even for a quad; a glow of brown rum-like alcohol ensues, but refrains from becoming disturbingly astringent so remaining well in place. Technically rather well done, actually, but feeling very clean and streamlined like similar beers from larger, established breweries; La Trappe Quadrupel, the beer that gave its name to this style (which in itself is much older than La Trappe Quadrupel itself), is indeed not that far away here. This beer has the same sweet, resinous, smooth and bubblegummy profile so in that sense, mission accomplished. It does, however, lack the depth, body and complexity of the greatest of trappist quads - this is, in fact, one of those cases where I would not have minded a bit more yeastiness for complexity. Too clean, slick and sweet to be truly great in the eye of the beer connoisseur I think, but purely commercially this should work perfectly fine.
mike_77 (15875) reviewed Quadrupel-Donker from De Nachtraafbrouwers 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Reddish brown colour with thin head. Aroma and flavour have some candy sweetness. Bready, malty, sweet.
Icedwarf (4896) reviewed Quadrupel-Donker from De Nachtraafbrouwers 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5
Helder robijnrood bier met mooie schuimkraag die snel wegzakt. Smaak is warm en licht bitterzoet met iets van rode bessen en rozijn. Is erg waterig en valt mij behoorlijk tegen.
Benzai (24515) reviewed Quadrupel-Donker from De Nachtraafbrouwers 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle at home. Reddish color, full sized beige head. Aroma is odd but interesting, I get strawberries mixed with raisins. Flavor is malts, dark malts, sweet, raisins, sugary, (red fruit) jam. Medium to full body, medium carbonation. In the end for me it is a little bit too sweet but quite a nice and well done quad imo. 8-4-7-4-14.
Rubin77 (10187) reviewed Quadrupel-Donker from De Nachtraafbrouwers 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
33cl bottle (10,5%) from Prik&Tik Kampenhout. F: huge, tan, extremely long lasting. C: brown with coppery red against the light, very light hazy. A: malty, banana, dark honey, dried fruits, dough, vaguely fruity. T: solid malty backbone, caramel, dried fruits, bit vinous, red berries, bit herbal, decent bitterness, warming alcohol not disturbing for me but not well hidden anyway, at least not bad, medium to full body and medium carbonation, enjoyable for the style yet not great.