Stochasticity Project: Quadrotriticale
Stone Brewing in Escondido, California, United States 🇺🇸
Belgian Style - Quadrupel / Dark Strong Series Out of Production|
Score
7.09
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Trappist ales as we know them have a proud lineage dating back nearly a century. Rather than follow the footsteps of the monks who forged the quadrupel—the warmest and darkest of monastery offerings—we aimed to test its inherent makeup. In doing so, we added triticale, a hybrid grain combining the pleasant flavor of wheat with the elemental durability and spice of rye, to breathe new life into the malt bill. Because of this, this reimagined brew comes across differently than its classic Belgian predecessors, and beautifully so. Lower in sweetness, but rich with flavors mirroring dried fruit, it’s a modern interpretation of one of the most historically sacred styles on Earth.
The Star Trek geek in me inspired this beer. The classic episode, “The Trouble with Tribbles,” referenced a type of grain called quadrotriticale (pronounced "quádro-trítĭ-kay-lee"). As described in the episode, this was a high-yield, four-lobed grain hybrid of wheat and rye with a bluish color. The flaked triticale we used is a cross between rye and wheat and makes up about 10 percent of the grain bill in this Belgian-style quadrupel.
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Pours a nice burnt umber. Yeah I just used that term. Candy sugar, cinnamon and plums. Slightly clean rye notes. Really nice.
RB score 3.53
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Draught@CBC2016. Amber colour, small white head. Aroma is fruity, alcoholic, toffeeish, some ripe fruits, mild nutty notes with some spiciness. Flavour s fruity, floral, some alcohol, nectar, mild spices and some earth.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
(Bottle) Reddish amber colour with creamy, beige head. Malty, fruity, spicy nose with caramel, orange peel, rye bread, dried fruit, apricots and candy sugar. Malty, fruity taste with notes of caramel, dried apricots, raisins, candy sugar, marzipan, rye bread, treacle-toffee and a mild spicy bitterness in the finish. Almost full body, with a certain sweetness. Strong and warming, still quite well balanced and harmonious. Very nice.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Flaska troligtvis från SB, gissningsvis flaskad 2014. Koppar/mahognybrun med lite smutsbeige krona. Ganska typiska quadtoner överlag, om än dock i renaste och lättaste laget. Snäll jästighet, lite skumbanan, väldigt mycket kandisocker. Helt ok.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Belgian style quadrupel by Stone making use of triticale, a hybrid of barley and wheat I am quite familiar with, having grown up on the Flemish countryside where this hybrid grain is often cultivated. Bomber from the Bierkoning in Amsterdam. Mousy, pale yellowish beige, opening head on a lightly hazy copper coloured beer with brownish-amber tinge, paler than the typical Belgian quadrupel, but comparable with e.g. La Trappe Quadrupel (seems logical since the Koningshoeven monks actually coined the term). Aroma of candied orange, caramel sauce, honey liqueur, clove, cooked apple, liquorish, brown rum, biscuit cake, soggy brown bread, figs soaked in ‘jenever’, white port. Fig, baked apple and dried banana sweetness in the onset, sweet ‘blonde’ sugariness too, medium fizz, slick and very lean mouthfeel – feeling a tad thin for a quad actually. Caramelly, biscuity, honeyish and lightly nutty maltiness, sweet with mild clove- and liquorish-like spicy notes in the end, warming port-like alcohol (yet refraining from becoming too obvious so well in place); some old port-like oxidation as well which in this kind of beer usually does not bother me, on the contrary. Sweet, with a citrus peel hop bitter accent but only gently so – for an American beer from a classic American craft brewery at least. Bit on the thin side, but if the intention was to create a beer similar to La Trappe Quadrupel, mission accomplished.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle thanks to Joe. Pours a hazy copper with small off white head. The aroma is dark fruit, yeast, toasted malt. Medium body, raisin, caramel, yeast, boozy finish, good.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
26-03-19 // on tap at Stone Brewing World Bistro & Gardens Berlin. Darker amber golden. Caramel toffee nose. Loads of roasted caramel. Heavy and malt complex. Great!
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