Quadrupel - Oak Aged Batch #24
La Trappe Trappist - Abdij O.L.V. Koningshoeven in Berkel-Enschot, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands 🇳🇱
Belgian Style - Quadrupel / Dark Strong Series Out of Production|
Score
7.72
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Type in BATCH
Used barrels Kirsch-schnapps 85%
New Oak Medium Toast 10%
Acacia wood 5%
Batch 24 presents itself with the normal amber brown color of the Quadrupel and has a relatively fragile head. In the enter cherries do smell right away and the equation on with lots of sweet ripe fruit. Besides cherries hints of mango, banana and strawberry come upwards. Also the smells of almond and vanilla are recognizable as that of alcohol, caramelmout and oak wood. The palate is full to even bombastic, warming and challenging and is dominated by cherry. Then come the flavors of vanilla and caramel-sweet and ends in a dry tannin bitter alcoholic aftertaste. The 'cherry-touch' fills the Quadrupel-taste fine, making clear this batch is clearly different from all previous 23 batches. This particular components make batch 24 to a must for the enthusiast.
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Obviously seriously aged sample No head, deep cognac-coloured beer. Complex nose of spirit (brandy?), wet wood, nuts, raisins, Xmas cake with maraschino cherries and dried apricots or prunes. Quite sweet with especially an almondy aroma, if quite delicate. Finish has brandy again but a bit diluted with springwater, making that finish a bit empty. Dried fruti including dried cherries; caramel (if mildly so). Looks utterly uncarbonated, but still offers a certain spritziness. Quite slick to alcoholviscosity, alcoholwarmth. Sweet, but of the better kind.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
375mL bottle, pours a rusted dark rusted brown with essentially no head. Nose is dominated by the brandy barrels, with a nice deep cherry character, followed by oak, alcohol and dark dried fruits. Flavour is rich, with loads of dark cherries and boozy brandy barrels. Moderately-to-heavy sweet, which is somewhat reined in by the booze. The flat carbonation does not seem optimal -- it could use a livelier carb. Good, but the carb issue brings it down a few notches.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Fles gedeeld door Tomhendriksen en gedronken met familie. Roodbruin bier met weinig schuim. Aroma van kersen en zwarte bessen. Smaak is vol en fruitig Nasmaak heeft wat pittigs.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Fles gedeeld met familie. Het is een amberkleurig bier met een dun schuim. Het heeft een kersen achtige en houtige geur. De smaak is vol, houtig, rood fruit, vanille en kersen.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Corked bottle. Dark amber color. Malt, white wine and a hint of oak in the aroma. Malty sweet vinous flavor with vanilla and white wine. Kirsch-schnaps? Didn’t taste any. A slight tartness. Very nice.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
1st December 2018
Almost clear deep reddish amber beer, tidy pale tan head. Light nose of floral estery berries. Light malts, sweetish but thin and dry. La Trappe Oak mellow esters. A little spice. Light cherry liquer, soft and tasty. Finishes slightly weak with a little more spice. Nice, can't recall a cherry schnapps barrel aged beer before so hats off for that. It's a tasty number but I wish it could have been in the barrel even longer.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Vintage bottle from Robenrob, the 24th in this marvellous series, aged partially on Kirsch barrels, acacia wood and medium toasted new oak wood. Comes from the familiar 37.5 cl 'geuze' bottle, with high quality cork and muselet (rather than the plastic corks I found in some other editions). Medium thick, yellowish pale beige, moussy, thinning but fairly well-retaining head lacing in shreds over a hazy chestnut brown beer with warm ruddy-mahogany hue, turning murky and deeper brown with the sediment added. Rich, luscious, beguiling nose of strong wet wood and vanilla-like oak but also sweeter, almost rosewood-tinged acacia wood and the expected Kirsch effect being equally strong, candied cherry-like in combination with the beer's own sweetness; further impressions include (strongly) walnut liqueur, yellow raisin, toffee, baked banana, dry hay, brown sugar, fig, touch of varnish from the wood (still after years of aging) - but, strangely perhaps, not a sign of oxidation, apart from maybe a subtle touch of old port wine. Sweet onset, candied figs, raisins, baked apple, stewed pear with brown sugar; medium to softish carb, slick, rounded but full body. Lovely sweet caramelly maltiness with hazelnutty edges and a very light toasty-bitterish accent, leading to a rich, warming, complex finish incorporating sweet acacia wood and vanilla-ish oak in more or less equal proportions, woody and dryishly tannic, before bringing in the Kirsch effect, which lends a certain toffee- and candied cherry (cherry version of "Chocotoff" candy) effect to it. Ends warming, rich and liqueurish with a deep-lying herbal hop bitterish touch that serves only structural purposes here. Sweet in a very condense, 'praline'-like way, perhaps a tad too sweet even and only in that sense not as impressive as some of the others in this series, but regardless of that, a beautiful, intense and complex sipper I hugely enjoyed - and well-preserved, too. Cheers Rob!
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 10 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle. Amber color, white foam. Aroma: esters and fruity, a little acetone, dried fruits, rum, vanilla, sweetness, interesting, oak. Taste: sweetish, vanilla, dried fruit, malt, rum or bourbon, strong and tasty.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle. Pours hazy bronze colour. Small fizzy head. Aroma: big oak barrel, vanilla, fruit esters, caramel. Medium body. Soft carbonation. Taste: rich malts, oak, vanilla, cherry, candy. Light bitterness. Not sure if barrel aging really benefits quads.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Thank you for sharing Benzai! 375 ml. bottle sampled @ RBBSG17. Dark amber orange, little tanned head. Standard La Trappe OA appearance, taste is familiar grounds, oily sweet wine sugar, malt, oak, thick La Trappe oak, malt, sweet, caramel, toffee. Taste is sweet La Trappe OA cereal, sugar, caramel, malt candy, dark banana, sweet, candy. Thick caramel LA Trappe OA body. Another very lovely edition, honestly I did not pick up on the Kirsch-schnapps, could have been just as well pure oak for me I think.