De Struise Brouwers Five Squared

Five Squared

 

De Struise Brouwers in Oostvleteren, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪

  Belgian Style - Quadrupel / Dark Strong Regular Out of Production
Score
7.28
ABV: 25.0% IBU: - Ticks: 69
Five Squared, a beer part of the Struise beer recrystallization project. Limited edition of 216 bottles, made from our Quadrupel X. You could become the proud owner of this unique charity bottle, and to be sold at the ACBF. All proceeds will be transferred to an honorable project, to be revealed at the festival.
 

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8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 9 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 8
Süßer, stark hefiger Beginn wie bei einem extrem starken (aber nicht alkoholischen) Weizenbock. Ausgewogen, fast etwas zuckrig, balanciert, intensiv, vollmundig. Saubere Sache! 12/12/11/14//13
Tried on 31 Mar 2012 at 07:26

9.3/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 9 Flavor 9 Texture 10 Overall 9
Draft @ ACBF 2012: dark red fruit/brown/amber with a huge creamy tanned head, smells heavily of syrup, concentrated caramel, syrup hops, liquorish, lots of gummy bears, spirity but pretty much no booze on the nose, taste is heavily sweet at first lots of syrup, grenadine, cowberry jam, concentrated caramel, very sweet spices, sweet wheat, lots of gummy bears, aftertaste is an initially heavily surprising burst of booze, very boozy, this is like drinking liquor & stronger even, not very beer-like, think direction of spirit’s, not like for instance the DB XI is, touch cowberries jam in the finish, small sips only, body is quite thick syrupy, jam-like, it is highly questionable a lot of people could finish a 33 cl. let alone a 75 cl. bottle of this, most had difficulties with their sample’s and were splitting it, the booziness of this is questionable but I for one liked the sweet syrupy nature of it, the booze I am less sure about but this was a very insane beer, people had mixed feelings about it, as far as the 75 cl. bottles are concerned, given the price I would never consider & people who say that it needs aging, I don’t fully believe, not sure what people expect the aging to do with this, given the price, I doubt I will ever find out what aging does to it, I though it was a very interesting experiment, it does lean closer to experiment than anything fully consumable, there will be divided opinions but given how many people bought this & that many are looking for it & it sold out very quickly out at, at least one place for a very nice surplus price, financially it was a success, although some people seem to be already abandoning the path that things are taking here but more than enough are still enthusiast
Tried from Draft on 10 Mar 2012 at 07:19

6.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Wow, a very special one from the Struise Brouwers. But this is’nt really my cup of tea. Very alcoholic, sweet, syrup. You can compare it with a liquor like Elixir d’Anvers.
Tried from Can on 07 Mar 2012 at 05:24

8.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 9 Flavor 9 Texture 10 Overall 7
Draft. Holy cow. Hazy amber color, massive head. Aroma of pine resin and ultraconcentrated fruits, holy cow. Taste is sticky sweet at first, then just sticky. Tons of pine trees and fruit. Holy cow!
Tried from Draft on 05 Mar 2012 at 15:35

6.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 7
Draught Mango coloured, dense head over slightly hazy red-amber ale. Sweet almondy aroma or marzipan, suggesting serious alcoholsweetness. Sweet chocolate cum marzipan, distilled alcohol, sweet bread. Complex, but yet unidimensional. Very slick, oily, I’d nearly say sleazy. A serious tad too sweet, really, and a heavy one, or what did you expect? Needs - as the brewers say - a retasting after a long, long bout of cave-ripening. Bottle version 1.5 yrs of ripening, Alcohol, wood, oranges, fruit on brandy. Still sleazy and oversweet, but at least, it lets itself drink. No new rating necessary.
Tried from Bottle on 05 Mar 2012 at 01:06

7.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 8
Draft @ ACBF 2012, Moen. Holy boozer. Couleur ambrée sur un léger col blanc/beige le tout restant huileux. Profile sucré très en avant et note de candi/caramel, le tout est très épais en bouche allant vers le liquoreux, note de pomme caramélisée avec un alcool réchauffant qui passe bien. Le tout reste très doux et très sucré / cristallisé avec un houblon en amertume qui reste discret. Content de l’avoir goutée, mais un verre de 13cl est déjà de trop. Une bière de dégustation à boire au calme.
Tried from Draft on 04 Mar 2012 at 02:57

7.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 10 Overall 7.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Struise Five Squared (by De Struise Brouwers):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 5/5, Overall: 15/20, MyTotalScore: 3.9/5

3/III/2012 on tap @ ACBF (Moen) - BB: n/a (2012-182)

Little cloudy red orange beer, big yellow creamy head, unstable, dissipates quickly. Aroma: curberdons (typical Belgian candy, purple cones), forest fruits, very sweet, bit of alcohol, syrup. MF: no carbon, very slick and thick mouth feeling, stinging alcohol. Taste: lots of sweetness, syrupy, fruity, very alcoholic, strawberry syrup (grenadine), ginger. Aftertaste: sweet sugary, little bitter, some liquorish.
Tried from Draft on 03 Mar 2012 at 09:08

6.9/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 10 Overall 6.5
Draft. A dark amber beer with a thin yellowish head. The aroma has notes of caramel, alcohol, malt, and a bit of vinegar. The flavor is very sweet with notes of syrup, alcohol, vinegar, malt, and caramel, leading to a dry alcoholic finish. The alcohol burns lightly in the throat, and warms the chest.
Tried from Draft on 03 Mar 2012 at 05:19

8.2/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 10 Overall 8
From tap. Pours clear and golden deep amber with a small tan head. Aroma is spiced, light phenolic and caramelish. Thick malty, light mineral note, smooth alcohol, thick caramelish, sweet and mild yeasty fruity touch. Smooth and thick malty finish. Surprisingly wellhidden alcohol into the finish.
Tried from Draft on 03 Mar 2012 at 04:56