The Cloak of St Martin
Brasserie de Brunehaut in Brunehaut, Hainaut, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Quadrupel / Dark Strong Special Out of Production|
Score
7.12
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottled 750ml. -Courtesy of franski, shared with him, Marko and kajser27. Muddy dark brown coloured, minimal head that went away within two seconds, alcohol, raisins and wood in the nose. Heavy oak, caramel, raisins, notes of alcohol and chestnut with almost sticky like alcohol finish. Quite complex and enjoyable quad. And yes the appearance isn’t representative but the beer...hell yeah is.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8
Shared with Marko, ogivlado and franski. Hazy, dark red to brown colored, no head, looks like a juice or shake. Aroma is very fruity, raisins, some caramel and toffee, woody, bit vinous. Taste is medium to very sweet caramel and dried fruity, quite strong oak woody notes, toffee, bit vinous, light nutty, medium- herbal bitterness, boozy and warming. Full bodied, flat, sticky. Very enjoyable, sipping quality, a shame it looks like a horse... (bottle, Svijet Piva, Zagreb)
Marko (21878) reviewed The Cloak of St Martin from Brasserie de Brunehaut 9 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottled 22.8.2014 after two years in oak barrels according to the sticker, covering the embossed text saying it was bottled in June 2012. oh well, reused bottles I guessed... or they decided to age it instead of bottling. Who cares. Thanks franski! Shared with him, kajser and ogivlado. No head, muddy chestnut (dark brown) body. Huge raisiny oak in the aroma, full and sweet without being cloying. Big vanilla too. Vague alcohol. Yaaaay! Damn pungent. Taste... flat sweet oaky body, huge raisins, more vanilla, actually lighter than expected, the consistency/drinkability is juice-like, could damn well fool you. Wow. Some dry sticky malty notes later on. Some tropical fruit in the finish/aftertaste, damn if I know where from. No carbonation, but fuck, it doesn’t need it. This tastes awesome, just awesome, easily over a 4 if it didn’t look this bad, vaguely, just some vague herbal notes, vague alcohol. Ah, this is so close to world class... oh well.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Fonefan 300814. Dark brown colour with a beige head. Aroma is alcohol, roasted malt, hop, chocolate. Flavour is alcohol, roasted malt, hop, chocolate, dried fruits, coffee. Full bodied nice beer.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle. Almost clear deep brown liquid with small tan light tan head. Aroma of dried fruit, chocolate, booze, light banana, vanilla and raw sugar. Taste is medium sweet and light bitter with notes of raw sugar, booze, dried fruit and medicinal alcohol. Medium to full bodied with medium carbonation. Meh.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Very heavy quadrupel named after a mediëval saint; in 75 cl bottles with paper wrapped around it, but print on the bottle itself as well. Off-white, coarse, thin, unstable head, mostly after a certain amount of forcing; very dark ruby colour, almost blackish; powerful sweet and perfumed aroma of chocolate liqueur, cocoa powder, overripe pear, candied dates, ’speculoos’, blackcurrant, plum wine, banana, raisins, candi syrup, cognac, cloves, liquorice, port wine. Very sweet, almost Coke-like onset, dark fruits, chocolatey, smooth and mellow, low carbo, vinous, deep caramelly and chocolatey maltiness, yeasty, some ethereal spices, mild peppery hop bitterishness in the finish with liqueurish, warming alcohol, a bit tingling but not too wry. Rich and complex quadrupel, but perhaps a tad too sweet. --- Beer merged from original tick of The Cloak of St Martin 2 Ans Fût de Chêne on 04 Apr 2018 at 06:55 - Score: Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8. Original review text: Special edition of this very strong quad by Brunehaut, aged on oak casks for two years; 75 cl bottle from 2014, bought at Geers last Saturday so apparently not retired yet at least in retail, but I am not sure if this is still made today. Very loose, pale yellowish beige 'head' consisting of a few bubbles which are instantly gone, no head left after that; misty dark chestnut brown robe with reddish burgundy tinge. Rich aroma breathes a lot of vanilla-scented oak wood, over notes of stewed plums, brown sugar, pear syrup, toffee, banana, pronounced sherry, candied dates, old madera, sweetbread, treacle, coriander seed, rum. Sweet onset, lots of brown sugary sweetness cloying a bit, effect of candied dates with notes of ripe plum, dried banana and raisins, light sourish touch bringing some balance but sweetness clearly dominates; carbonation is close to flat (unsurprising seen the lack of head), mouthfeel is thick and syrupy due to the residual sugars. Very toffeeish, hazelnutty and brown bready maltiness, some light, madera- or port-like oxidation retronasally adding complexity in an elegant way and matching with a lot of 'old furniture'- and vanilla-ish oak wood, which adds some drying tannins to the still very sweet, brown sugary whole. Earthy hop bitterish touch, bready yeastiness and the expected glow of sherry- and rum-like, pronounced but non-wry alcohol; brown sugar keeps lingering, even cloying a bit. Nutty malt flavours remain after swallowing. Like the basic beer, a very sweet, if not cloying, powerful, boozy quad, but the wood aging has added elegance and depth - and so do the first signs of oxidation. Reminiscent of what La Trappe does with their quadrupel a couple of times per year, though perhaps a bit more crude and I can imagine the lack of carbonation and head retention not being too attractive to many consumers either - but I hugely enjoyed this nonetheless. Deserves more exposure among beer geeks, but then I suspect this was a very limited experiment - hopefully the brewery continues this one.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle 750ml. corked @ The Danish Ratebeer Summer Gathering 2014, TSODRBSG14. [ As Brunehaut The Cloak of St Martin ].Clear dark brown color with a small, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, caramel, alcohol, dark fruit, dried fruit. Flavour is moderate to heavy sweet with a long duration, caramel, alcohol, sweet malt, light chocolate. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft, finish feel is moderate alcoholic. [20140830]
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle @ Danish Ratebeer Summer Gathering, 2014. Pours dark brown with a bubbly head. Sweet dark fruit, caramel, toffee and dust. Warming and hot alcohol!
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
75 cL bottle. Pours clear and dark malty. Overripe fruity. Lingering overripe fruity. Dark malty. overripe fruity. Overripe fruity and dark malty. Light chocolate. Bitter and toasted dark malty finish.