Bottle in hotel room bodegraven 2014... Deep black... Thin tan lacing... Deep honey... Sweet toffee.. Light licorice nose.... Soft sweet meaty malts... Soft sweet toffee... Beefy bottle at home ... June 2015 ... deep brown ... thin tan lacing ... soft meaty toffee malt nose ... soft swet honey toffee fruit malts ... bitter herbal toffee 3.2

Bottle. Chocolate malt, dry grass, alcohol aroma. Dark brown with small head. Sweet chocolate malt, moderately bitter herbal and alcohol flavor. Tasty.

How: Bottle.
Where: De Molen Beershop, had at SMÖD.
Appearance: Dark brown, almost black, colour with a small beige head.
Aroma: Whiskey, dried fruit, plum, raisin, sweet malt, alcohol.
Body: Medium body and carbonation. Smooth mouthfeel.
Flavour: Dried fruit, raisin, plum, sweet syrup, some alcohol.

Pours dark brown shaded with burgundy. Looks fairly clear but it’s on the dark side, almost hard to tell. Very small head. Khaki bubbles. Just a scattered few after the initial pour. The aroma has a lot of caramel sweetness. Some bubblegum, not too bad. Mild toasty doughiness. Some stone fruit, really not much for a quad, though. Fairly medicinal. Not terribly spicy. More caramel sugariness. The taste is awfully sweet. There’s a lot of caramel, sweet nondescript fruitiness, bubblegum, some medicinal character. Sticky. Slick mouthfeel. Not too much carbonation. Heavy. Not really all that great. Lots of funny sweetness, not enough spice.

Bottle shared with popery. Aroma is full of raisin, fig and prune with a lot of caramel, toffee and burnt sugar. Some low alcohol notes. Quite a bit of Belgian yeast character. Pours brown with some ruby and burnt amber color. Small, thin tan head immediately recedes to the edges. Flavor is fairly sweet with a lot of caramel, toffee and burnt sugar. Lots of raisin, fig and prune. Tons of burnt sugar mid palate. An odd, slightly medicinal cherry note with medium bitterness in the finish. Moderate alcohol. Mouthfeel is medium full bodied with medium low carbonation. Low, but present astringency with medium alcohol warmth. Overall, an alright beer that gets better as it warms up, but the burnt sugar note is way too strong for me and combines with the fruit esters to take on a medicinal quality.

New Beer Distributors, NYC 11.2oz ($8): Pours murky brown with a small tan head that completely disappears after a bit. Aroma is bourbon and vanilla. Taste is strong whiskey bite that sits around for a bit. I guess the hops add a strange underlying bitterness. Really heavy and somewhat cloying aftertaste. Plenty of fruity flavors involved trying to sneak in under the whiskey. This beer is powerful and is a sipper for those who have acquired the taste. As the person who gave this a 1.4 said, a beer noob could drink this and be discouraged from ever having another beer. All in all, this is powerful and roasty stuff. I am not sure whether I really like it, but I can respect it.