Dark Signs
White Pony Microbirrificio in Piove di Sacco (PD), Veneto, Italy 🇮🇹
Brewed at/by: BCBBelgian Style - Quadrupel / Dark Strong Winter
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Score
6.83
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Strong dark ale brewed and dryhopped with natural vanilla extract and vanilla beans. A sweet complex taste supported by a soft roastiness by the dark malts, packed in an elegant creamy texture.
A rich, complex, sweet, malty dark beer with hints of toffee, vanilla, candy, milk chocolate, dark fruits, raisins and plums.
A rich, complex, sweet, malty dark beer with hints of toffee, vanilla, candy, milk chocolate, dark fruits, raisins and plums.
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6.9/10
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Appearance 5
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
330ml bottle. Almost opaque, darkest brown colour with weak ruby shimmer and small, creamy, fading, moderately lacing, dark beige head. Sweet-ish, minimally toasty, malty and yeasty fruity aroma, notes of dried fruit, raisin, date, some treacle, a touch of cherry. Taste is sweet, minimally toasty and chocolately, dark malty, yeasty fruity and minimally yeasty spicy, notes of treacle, molasses, dried fruit, raisin, date, plum, a touch of vanilla, cinnamon, marmite; well hidden alcohol.
Dissolved sugar enriched, watery texture, smooth and soft, minimally cloying palate, medium, mildly prickly carbonation.
Very sweet and fruity, surprisingly light and dangerously drinkable - not bad.
Dissolved sugar enriched, watery texture, smooth and soft, minimally cloying palate, medium, mildly prickly carbonation.
Very sweet and fruity, surprisingly light and dangerously drinkable - not bad.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 May 2025
at 20:56
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
I hold a 33 cl bottle obtained from Belgian Happiness earlier this year. The label shows the brew was put up in 01/2019 if aging makes any difference. I lift the cap before making a pour inside of my Cowtown snifter. The view is a coppery, caramel liquid with a here-and-gone top of very fine, taupe bubbles. The nose is heavy with ripe fruit with a yeasty background, nothing unusual. But the drink, now, this is going a different direction. Sweet red cherries, dates, sorghum, biscuit, malt and raisins. I get a first impression of significant sweetness but there is a slight amount of bitterness concluding. Depend upon White Pony to take a quad not the usual direction. Their brews don’t always work for me but when they do, it can be pretty interesting.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Oct 2021
at 22:27
6/10
Dark, Malty, cherry, sweet and boozy.
Tried
from Draft
on 10 Aug 2021
at 15:44
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
On tap at The Castle, Mitte, Berlin, Thurs' 5th August 2021 with Blondie on in the background and all of the windows pulled right back, ooh it's Carole King on now. Pours dark reddy brown, good clarity with an off white, cappuccino coloured head. You can tell this is clearly a big Belgian styled beer, however it's carrying a little too much residual sweetness, lot's of caramel, toffee and a little spice a touch heavy on the boozy edge, soft moutheel. Fine.
Tried
from Draft
on 05 Aug 2021
at 15:06
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 7
Overall 5.5
Vergorener Fruchtgeruch, reife Banane, süßes dunkles Malz. Süß malziger Beginn, brotig, schokoladig süß, geringe Herbe. Hefig malzig, erkennbarer, nicht aufdringlicher Alkohol, cremig. Die Süße steigt an und wird prägend, intensiv, zum Ende zu süß. Herb malziger, zuckrig süßer Abgang. 10/10/8/8/6/8
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Mar 2021
at 20:05
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle.Dark reddish/brown colour with no head.Aroma of sugar and dark dried fruit hint of heavy alc and caramel mild sweet finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Apr 2020
at 10:10
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Deep dark brown color. Roast and a hint of salted licorice in the aroma. Full bodied. Malty sweet roasty flavor with dried fruit and salted licorice. The alcohol is there, but the beer is smooth enough.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Aug 2019
at 12:05
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle 33 cl. Pours a hazy, deep nutty rown with a small, creamy yellowish head. Caramellish nose, rock sugar, booze, oxidized dried fruits. Rich, potent, sweet body with loads of syrup and brown sugars. Dark, dried fruits, somewhat spicy. Warming finish. Nice enough, but not the world's most complex Quad. 160119
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Jan 2019
at 12:55
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Nearly clear dark brown, small beige head. Malty aroma, a little dried fruit and dark sugar. Sweet flavour, sugary. Malt, caramel and some dried fruit. Ok warming alc.
Tried
on 08 Jan 2019
at 17:49
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 9
robijnrood met licht kaki kraag. aroma is redelijk zoet, rozijn, fruit. smaken enorm zoet, zacht, weeig, donker fruit, rozijntjes all over, matige body, toffee --- Beer merged from original tick of Dark Signs - on 01 Sep 2018 at 00:42 - Score: 7. Original review text: Enorm zoet, mega rozijntjes, stevig alcoholisch, matige/redelijke body, bruine suiker, toffee
Tried
on 09 Sep 2018
at 15:24