Quadrupel
Destihl Brewery in Normal, Illinois, United States 🇺🇸
Belgian Style - Quadrupel / Dark Strong Regular|
Score
6.99
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7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle at home from WFs. Chestnut pour thicker syrupy mouthfeel. Nose is dark Frits and syrupy sugar. Tastes of earth, caramel, plum, raisin, toffee, light pepper. Chewy mouthfeel. Semi sweet.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Jul 2018
at 04:07
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 3
Texture 10
Overall 3
Rather messy stab at a quad, insanely sweet with a medicinal bitterness that leads to a Robotussin-style finish. Some dark fruit complexity pops up, candied cherries and dates, but mostly you get a sickly sweet molasses front hindered by an off-putting metallic undertone. Alcohol remains well hidden--perhaps the one thing this beer does well--but otherwise its a no-go.
Tried
from Can
on 14 May 2017
at 21:19
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
500 ml bottle into chalice, no bottle dating. Pours crystal clear deep ruby red color with a 1 finger dense khaki head with great retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings around the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of raisin, plum, fig, date, apple, caramel, toffee, toast, biscuit, pepper, light nuttiness, light herbal, and yeast/toasted earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of fruity/spicy yeast and dark/bready malt notes; with good strength. Taste of big raisin, plum, fig, date, apple, caramel, toffee, toast, brown sugar, biscuit, pepper, light nuttiness, light herbal, and yeast/toasted earthiness. Fair amount of earthy yeast spiciness and herbal bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of raisin, plum, fig, date, caramel, toffee, toast, brown sugar, biscuit, pepper, light nuttiness, and yeast/toasted earthiness on the finish for a while. Incredible complexity and robustness of fruity/spicy yeast and dark/bready malt sweetness; with a great malt/yeast balance and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Medium carbonation and medium-full bodied; with a very smooth and lightly slick/sticky mouthfeel that is nice. Alcohol is very well hidden with only a light warmth lingering after the finish. Overall this is an awesome quadrupel style! All around great complexity, robustness, and balance of fruity/spicy yeast and dark/bready malt sweetness; and very smooth to sip on for the big ABV. A highly enjoyable offering.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 May 2015
at 21:31
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
50cl bottle pours with a near clear deep red to amber body that supports a thin light tan head. The aroma starts with modest yet thick sweet malts and then it quickly brings up sticky molasses covered warm dates and then prunes and dried brown sugar covered cherries. The end of the draw is met with a fairly firm booziness. The taste begins smooth and sweet with malts for a brief moment before tangy date, cherry and prune fruity sweetness over whelms the experience. To midway it gets a tad hot and a tad peppery amid the sludgy swirls of dark fruity sweetness and molasses notes. Decent Quad. It would be fun if it conjured up a bit of earthiness to help compliment all the dark fruity sweetness. Although I do enjoy the nearly nectar like fruity esters that murmur to the surface every now and then it comes up a tad short.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Feb 2015
at 23:08
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
On draft at Hops and Pie in Denver. Pours a clear amber with an ecru head. Flavors of toffee and toasted nuts Surpisingly bitter finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 05 Feb 2015
at 17:22
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Pours chestnut amber off white head. Nose/taste of lightly sugared dates, unsweetened raisin, toffee, vanilla and caramel. Medium body.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Feb 2015
at 22:21
7/10
Tried
on 14 Feb 2014
at 18:34
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
on tap-lt tan-amber. A-sweet ripe dk fruit-plum, malty. T-sweet ripe dk fruit-cherry/plum, spice hops, med malt.
Tried
from Draft
on 26 Nov 2012
at 11:18
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Draft at the Normal, IL location. Poured a slightly light copper color, small creamy, fluffy white head. Aroma was sweet malts, candi and brown sugars, caramel notes, spices, a touch dry notes from honey. Alcohol is really masked in this 10% brew. Didn’t really pick up on the raisins, but that’s probably for the best on my part.
Tried
from Draft
on 04 Aug 2011
at 21:54