Bottle at home. Pours deep amber with bits, nose is caramel, raisin, candi sugar, gooseberry, taste is sweet, raisin, gooseberry, malty, caramel. 8

This is a 2024 edition 375 ml bottle from the brewery direct as part of their 12 Days of Christmas compilation . A quadrupel, that is good; gooseberries, that will be new to me. My New Belgium large tulip glass is ready to receive, the cap is off and I pour. The color is a dark gold-brown much like the La Trappe quads and carries a healthy head of eggshell tan foam. I will say that the scent is mighty fine, there is hard candy, yeast, ripe fruit and baked bread. The taste is good, not to the level of the nose, it's too sweet. But that is minor point in the grand scheme of things. There is grain, malt, berries as advertised, honey, yellow plums, vanilla and a touch of dates. Slightly bitter at the end. Not a great quadrupel but it is still quite all right. I would buy again if I could ever find it.

Plums, berries and belgiany