Quadrupel - Oak Aged Batch #35
La Trappe Trappist - Abdij O.L.V. Koningshoeven in Berkel-Enschot, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands 🇳🇱
Belgian Style - Quadrupel / Dark Strong Series Out of Production|
Score
7.54
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Cachaça: 78%
New Oak Medium Toast: 17%
New Oak High Toast: 5%
Batch 35 presents itself with an elegantly-pearled head of foam and a deep, dark, amber-like beer colour.
The first aroma impression of this Oak Aged is highly complex, with fruity rum associations of tropical fruits and a wealth of herbs (including cinnamon and liquorice). Like the caramel and malt aromas, the oak definitely makes an appearance.
The taste is pleasantly sweet, silky soft, with the right fullness, and just a little boozy. The elegant and harmonious bitterness of La Trappe Quadrupel has been beautifully retained. Upon tasting, you will recognise the flavours of Cachaça, dates, prunes, ginger, oak and smoke. The long maturing process has provided this beer with a character that is fully its own.
As the beer warms up, the taste of oak becomes more emphasised and the beer becomes more tannin-rich and dryer in its finish.
The Batch 35 was blended in November 2018.
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
29th December 2025
A mild to medium haze on this amber brown beer, small and short lived bubbly pale tan head. Light palate, mildly dry, decent fine minerally carbonation. Smooth caramel and cream malts, classy. Lots of ripe fruits with a mild candy fruit overlay. Modest fruity bourbon fruits and a light and pleasing touch of that sweet floral acacia wood. Whisper of vanilla. Light finish. A light but richly flavoured edition of this long running series.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Aged sample Clear red-copper to brown beer with a small off-white rim. Raisins, old wood, X-mas cake, other dried fruit, sweet. Raisins with a sourish lining, sweet yet balanced. Quite refined for a rum-aged beer. Preserved orange, dried plums. Alcoholthinning, enhnaced by its age. Some light carbonation, bit slick. A nice one, this!
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 9
01L18. Fairly dark reddish brown, some fine off-white head. Smells dry, woody, raisins, bit of caramel. Light body, decent carbonation, slight warming booze. Taste is definitely cachaca, dry, loads of wood. Some dried fruit, little bit of tobacco. Nice!
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle 375ml. @ [ Pre-Borefts 2019 Tasting ] - Kermis House - Zaandam, Netherlands.
[ As La Trappe Quadrupel Oak Aged Batch #35 ].
ABV: 11.0%. Cloudy medium amber colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, sweet malt, pale malt, fruity yeast, wood, apple, alcohol, belgian yeast, sweet yeast, caramelized fruit - dried fruit. Flavor is moderate sweet with a long duration, belgian yeast, wood, apple, sweet malt, caramel, oak, dried fruit, date - prunes. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft, finish feel is warming and light alcoholic. [20190926]
7-3-8-4-15
Zoet, eikenhout, stoffig zaagsel, kersenschilletjes, vol.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
Dark amber beer, small head, aroma is malt, fruit, sweet, light rum like. taste is malt, fruit, sweet, wood, sweet with bitter, nice one
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Sampled at Borefts Pre-Tasting 2019. A bit unclear reddish color, small off-white head. Smell and taste malts, sweetness, caramel, liquor moderately coming through, a bit more dry in the finish compared to the base beer. Ok.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5
hazy Brown colour, moderate sized creamy beige-ish head; aroma of dried cherry and plum, vanilla, biscuits, toffee, raisins soaked into liqueur and some woody notes; taste of syrupy-caramel, dried cherry, raisins, vanilla, biscuity and alcoholic notes; great one!
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Fles thuis geprobeerd met LiekevdV. Het is donker bruin bier met een heerlijk houtige geur. De smaak is vol, gebrande mout, hout en vanille. Erg goed weer!
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle at pre borefts tasting. Pours hazy orange, nose is fudge, vanilla, raisin, citrus, taste is similar, sweet, little harsh.8/4/7/3/15