Samaranth

bouteille 33cl. Cuivrée, col beige. Arôme a un profile houblonne citronnelle bien agréable avec en arrière des fruits noirs, malt caramel. Palais est sucré candi, notes de fruits noirs; figue le tout sur des notes réchauffantes. Reste fruitée avec des pointes d’amertume houblonnées, malt et un fini liquoreux.

This one was a bit dissapointing. Not really my style i guess. Lovely glass! Colour was great! Almost perfect for me.

Imported from my RateBeer account as Urthel Samaranth (by Brouwerij Urthel (Swinkels Family Brewers)):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 5/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 15/20, MyTotalScore: 3.9/5

26/03/2011 - 33cl bottle @ home BB: MAR/2013 (2011-124)
Little cloudy dark amber to copper red beer, light beige creamy big head, stable and adhesive. Little chunks floating around in the beer. Aroma: dried peaches, raisins, sweet caramel, alcohol, sugar, lots of ripe yellow fruits. MF: ok carbon, full body, bit syrupy texture, very numbing alcohol in the back of the throat. Taste: sweet caramel, very fruity, some hops. Ending pretty sour and a bit dry. Alcohol is well hidden in the flavour, but very present in the throat after swallowing. Aftertaste is citrus fruits and some hops. The biggest surprise was that it was by far not as sweet as I remembered it to be.

Bottle: Clear, but floaties visible, copper to amber coloured, no head to speak of; solid sweet almondy-nutty nose with alcohol, caramel and a tinge of nutmeg in the background; solid sweet flavour, accompanied by a light bitterness, full bodied; sweet walnutty finish with a brandy-like aftertaste. Heavy, but not so exciting.....

New Beer Distributors 11.2oz ($3.50): Pours a reddish brown body with a quickly dissipating head that keeps some lacing forever. Aroma is of booze. Straight up. But it is most reminiscent of some kinds of run or perhaps brandy. Obviously, there is some fruitiness and spiciness in there, but if you were to let me whiff this I would say blindly that it is not a beer. Taste of boozy sweetness, making it difficult to drink and in fact does a good job of covering most of the other tastes such as the spices and fruit flavors. A bunch of malts and barely any hops to be had. Sure, it is a pretty unique taste, but considering it is only 11% alcohol and is this boozy turns me off (for example, De Dolle Stille Nacht is 12% and is much better balanced than this). Basically, I didn’t really like it.

Dark brown beer with medium and beige head. Aroma is full and sweet, plums, raisins, fruit kissel and some warming alcohol and hint of bananas. Flavour is strong and powerfull, raisins, some fruits, black peppers, some powerfull and warming alcohol with unfotunately also some alcohol taste. Aftertaste is quite dry with long spicyness. Enjoy warmer than recommend (> 8-10 degrees), because alcohol is too dominant when the beer is cold. Full bodied and smooth to drink. Good beer, but alcol is too dominant. However, complicated and great aroma; I recommend this beer if you can live with alcohol nuancees.

Found at Bootlegger in a 330ml bottle, could be called "Quadrium" if you only read the top part of the label... so, nonetheless, this one is chilled modestly. Nice bright amber body, decent head that sticks around for awhile. Aroma is fruity malts, a modest amount of alcoho, quite appealing for such a high-alcohol drink. Taste is hops and alcohol with a syrup finish; ah, alas, they didn’t get the taste right, there’s little complexity here. Sure, it’s not so bad, but it’s not a world class quadrupel. Then again, it was pretty cheap. Maybe that makes up for it?

33cl bottle A lovely beer! not much head but a great flavour, a little reminiscent of Stille Nacht. Sweet malty aroma reminiscent of untreated wood