Grand Cru
(has 3 batches)
Brasserie de l'Abbaye du Val-Dieu in Aubel, Liège, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Quadrupel / Dark Strong Regular|
Score
7.56
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Dark beer, almost black with creamy and brown foam. Rich and powerful beer with a very long after-taste. Very complex and still soft aroma. The high level of alcohol is very subtlety hidden. It is prepared with strongly roasted malt which gives its very special taste.
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7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
One of the more recent additions to the Val-Dieu abbey beer range, a complex spicy brew with beige head and misty, dark bronze colour. Fairly powerful aroma of dates, plums, blackcurrant, raisins, candi sugar, port wine, mint, aniseed; taste full, fruity, creamy mouthfeel, explicitly spicy (aniseed, liquorice), chocolatey malty, finish lightly toasted bitter with some warming, but never astringent alcohol. By far the most interesting of the Val-Dieu beers, in my opinion. Seems to have big potential for further maturing for several years.
Tried
from Can
on 13 Jul 2014
at 12:29
9.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 10
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9.5
Ein recht süßes, braun-rotes Getränk, das mehr an süßen Rotwein als an Bier erinnert. Es hat tolle fruchtige, beerige Aromen mit ordentlichen Tiefgang. Kein Bier, das man so nebenher trinkt, aber eine wahre Aromenfreude. Mir hat es sehr gut gefallen.
Tried
from Bottle
at
Känguruh
on 12 Jul 2014
at 19:27
8.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
750 ml bottle into chalice, best before 4/2015. Pours fairly cloudy deep reddish brown color with a 1-2 finger dense light khaki head with great retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a moderate amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of big raisin, plum, fig, cherry, pear, apple, light banana, dark candi sugar, clove, pepper, light caramel, toast, brown bread, herbal, and yeast earthiness. Incredible aromas with awesome complexity and balance of fruity/spicy yeast and bready/candi sugar malt sweetness; with great strength. Taste of big raisin, plum, fig, cherry, pear, apple, light banana, clove, pepper, dark candi sugar, light caramel, toast, brown bread, herbal, and yeast earthiness. Good amount earthy yeast spiciness on the finish; with lingering notes of raisin, plum, fig, cherry, pear, apple, light banana, clove, pepper, dark candi sugar, light caramel, toast, brown bread, herbal, and yeast earthiness on the finish for a while. Incredible complexity and balance of fruity/spicy yeast and bready/candi sugar malt sweetness; with an awesome malt/yeast balance and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Medium-high carbonation and medium-full bodied; with a very smooth, crisp, and fairly slick mouthfeel that is nice. Alcohol is well hidden with only a light warming present after the finish. Overall this is an outstanding quadrupel style! All around fantastic complexity and balance of fruity/spicy yeast and bready/candi sugar malt flavors; and very smooth and crisp to sip on for the big ABV. A highly enjoyable offering.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Jun 2014
at 20:16
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Small beige head. Hazy brown body. Fruity meaty aroma with strawberry notes. Dry-sweet candy, sugar and meat taste with caramelly notes. Mid-to-full body. Mild, slightly hot mouthfeel. Sweet dried cherry aftertaste with syrupy earthy notes. Nice, drinkable, quite sophisticated. (0.75l bottle, shared by MortenR.)
Tried
from Can
on 25 Jun 2014
at 09:48
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle from Voldby. Clear dark brown with a small beige head. Aroma is sweet, malty, caramel, dried fruit, yeasty and alcohol. Flavor is quite sweet and moderate bitter. Sweet finish with warming alcohol. 160114
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Jan 2014
at 08:14
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Im Glas hat es eine schöne tief rot-braune Farbe. Der Schaum ist schön feinporig und erinnert an Guinness. Das Bier ist sehr süffig-vollmundig. Schon fast schwer und dickflüssig. Im Mund breitet sich langsam eine schöne schokoladige Malznote aus, es ist kaum Herbe Spürbar. Ein süßlich-cremiges Bier mit sehr vielen komplexen, schwer zu beschreibenden Aromen.
Einfach Klasse um es abends schön langsam zu genießen!!
Test vom 10.2.2008, Gebinde: Glasflasche Noten: 13,14,13,14,13,13 - 13,30
Einfach Klasse um es abends schön langsam zu genießen!!
Test vom 10.2.2008, Gebinde: Glasflasche Noten: 13,14,13,14,13,13 - 13,30
Tried
on 02 Dec 2013
at 14:39