Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bottle shared at Borefts day 1. Light unclear brown. I can spot the Noord-Hollandse algae from a-far. Sweet malts, caramel. Moderate sweet and bitter. Medium body and soft carbonation. Dead fish in a pool of barley. --- Beer merged from original tick of Eclipse Quadrupel on 30 Sep 2019 at 00:49 - Score: 5

33cl bottle. A hazy orange brown beer. Aroma of dark riped fruits and caramel. Taste of strong caramelized malt, riped fruits, raisins.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Apparently this beer company's first beer, a Belgian quadrupel, from an un-Belgian longneck bottle. Medium thick, pale greyish beige, mousy head, quite dense and stable, only slowly opening here and there; deep chocolate brown robe with warm burgundy hue, cloudy with sediment. Indeed typical quad aroma of caramel, banana bread, ground hazelnuts, ripe blue plum, chewing gum, soaking wet milk chocolate or diluted chocolate milk, pear juice, white pepper, old raisins, candied figs, brownies, hints of clove, vague liquorish, gin, brown bread, bitter bayleaf. Sweet onset, fruity with accents of ripe banana (even light chewing gum but acceptable for the intended style), plum, raisins and pear dusted in brown sugar but nowhere overly sweet and balanced by a very light sourish touch, medium carbonation, soft and fluffy body. Smooth-edged caramelly malt sweetish body with a bready and slightly toasty-bitterish tail, merging with clove- and somewhat bayleaf-like spicy phenols and an earthy, lightly peppery hop bitter touch in the end; sweet maltiness and brown sugar as well as the hops and fruity esters linger in the end, all 'heated' by pronounced brandy-like alcohol, a bit too astringently so perhaps. After all this, there is even a very vague meaty protein accent following. In all, this is a very good quadrupel in my book, it has the soft, full and fluffy feel this genre absolutely needs, as well as enough sweetness, spiciness and alcohol warmth (though the latter could perhaps be hidden just a little bit better). Well done, apart from the modern label and longneck bottle, this ticks all the boxes for a classically styled Belgian 'abt' or 'massieve ale' the world got to know and love thanks to the trappist monasteries.