Bottle courtesy of and shared with deanso. Nice dark brown pour, Warm bitter caramel flavour. Nice aftertaste. Worth tracking down. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Deep amber colour with a tan head. Caramel and yeast aroma. Rich caramel and raisins/grape in the flavour. Not for the fainth hearted. Warming texture. Very well hidden alcohol.
[Bottle from Slijterij t Fust in Hoorn, Netherlands]

330ml bottle at 11%. Pours dark caramel with a small head. Aroma is rich caramel and raisin. Taste is sweet caramel to start with a heavy raisin finish. Thick in the mouth with low carbonation. Some alcohol warmth.

Fra 0,33 flaske: utseende minner mest om kakao/mørk sjokolade. Uklar og nesten ikke skum. Overveldende aroma av svisker og mørk karamell. Smaker som bestemors intense sviskeplommer. En god nightcap, ikke et øl å starte med og de 11,5% er helt i bakgrunnen.

Dark brown solor. Has a mix of caramel and dark fruits. You will taste brown sugar also. Alcohol is very good hidden so it’s not so strong. So drink this very responsively.

There are certain things in life that shouldn’t be rushed: choosing your wife, buying a house, or drinking a Belgian Quadrupel. This one came in a 33cl brown bottle. I poured it slowly (in Aug 2010) into my Westmalle chalice and allowed it to settle, I had too because the bottle brought up all the sediment as I poured it. The beer was a reddy brown colour, the tanned head soon receded to a weak collar and a wispy covering. The floating grist refused to calm down, so I prepared my food pairing: Organic Cheshire Cheese and Black Olive Biscuits, accompanied with Hazelnuts. The food element wasn’t touched until my review findings were complete, but with the sediment messing me around it took some will power not to attack the cheese before I had my first sip. The aroma being given off was treacle and molasses, a rich fairground toffee apple sort of affair. Once the beer began to settle correctly I began sampling its delights: very sweet upfront, like the smell, all treacle tart and no custard. The alcohol content reared its head within the mouthfeel but the expected hop bitterness didn’t meterialise at all. The beer is a fireside, pull up an armchair sort of brew. Luckily the weather in Shropshire today is foul, wet, windy and very un-August like, so it fitted the bill ideally.

33 cl. bottle @ home. Copper with an off-white head. Aroma of Belgian yeast and caramel. Taste is sweet but with an uncharacteristic bitterness. There’s also some alcohol noticable in the taste. Not my favourite Abt.

12 ounce bottle at the Bayou. Pours a dark mahogany color with a medium off-white head. The aroma is a sweet sugary mix with some fruit. The flavor is sweet prunes, candies, dry yeast. Easygoing and pretty nice. Warm.