6.5

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

26/XI/21 - 75cl bottle from Geers (Oostakker), shared @ home, BB: 19/IX/22 (2021-1505)

Clear dark brown beer, small creamy beige head, unstable, dissipates immediately, non adhesive. Aroma: lots of raspberry jam, some chocolate notes, sweet and sugary impression. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: sweet start, lots of raspberry jam, soft acidity, bitter touch, lots of alcohol. Aftertaste: alcohol burn, soft acidity, raspberry, sweet touch, some chocolate, ok, but not great.

9.4

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9.5

Black with a huge foamy beige head. Very strong chocolate, sweet raspberry, toasty malt, nut and a hint of cola. Very long finish. Moderately full bodied. Marvelous!

7.1

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Hazy brown colour with thin head. Aroma and flavour have a huge amount of zingy and sweet raspberry. Behind that a sweet malty nutty strong ale.

6.8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

One of a handful of quadrupels I purchased at Total Wine recently while in Orlando, I look forward to sampling RaspBarista for the first time. Not sure how an adjunct-influenced quad will go, worth the effort in any case. A 750 ml bottle, it is being poured into my Straffe Hendrik snifter, a medium dark brown in color. The head, what there is of one, is eggshell brown. And the scent, the raspberry knocks out anything else. A taste, well, the raspberry is muted compared to the nose. Accompanying is milk chocolate, dark raisin, some sourness and whole grain bread. I am reminded of a filled candy out of a chocolate sampler box. Different at best. The 11% abv is, no surprise, completely concealed.

4

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4

Pours clear, dark brown. Smell is burnt sugar, raspberry ( chemically). Taste is full, sharp, thin, very chemical. Burnt sugar. Unpleasant.

2.8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 1 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 2

Bottle from Daniels, Tongeren. Dark brown colour, beige foam. Disgusting aroma of artificial raspberries, chewing gum, chocolate. Sweet, bitter, artificial, cocoa. Very bad.

7.1

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Sample from bottle at Hoof Hearted during the Party At The Gutt's vs. Quit Yer Fussin' - Dual Can Release event on 03/17/2019. Clear ruby-brown color with a medium thin khaki head that dissipates quickly to a film. Short strings of lace. Aroma of raspberry, yeast and chocolate. Full-bodied with flavors of chocolate malt, raspberry and yeast. The finish is sweet raspberry and chocolate. Decent overall.

8

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5.1

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5.5

On draught at Frontier Brewing and Taproom.

Pours a clear deep amber, mahogany, good foam and lacing.

Smells of sweet and tart raspberries, candi sugar goes a bit over the top with the sweet notes. Alcohol hidden well in the smell.

Taste reflects the smell, has a peculiar creaminess to it and the alcohol is more apparent. Thinking, a fruity Quad isn't for me. Not the way that this is executed..

5.2

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

New variation on the Kasteelbier theme: a blend of the Barista Chocolate Quad with that horribly sweet Saint-Louis Framboise - I was not looking forward to this I must admit, but sheer curiosity drove me to purchase a 75 cl bottle at the Prik & Tik in Zele. Creamy, medium thick, pale yellowish beige, lacing head over a dark bronze coloured beer with mahogany brown hue. Aroma instantly reminds me of sugary cough syrup and strong methylated spirits, flanked by hazelnut paste, red candy, chewing gum, brown sugar, raspberry ice cream, 'jenever', caramel, coffee powder in an artificial way, banana. Sweet onset, red candy, banana and pear notes with a very soft, basic sourishness underneath, sharpish fizz, supple and full mouthfeel. Caramelly malt base, sweet and glueishly slick, artificially covered in coffee powder dust like the Barista but strangely coming across as even more artificial here - losing its coffee credibility altogether for me. All this is joined by a very bubblegummy, syrupy (though fortunately not overly cloying) sweetness from the added framboise. This, along with plastic and methylated spirits (and thus - unsurprisingly - a relatively harsh, almost headache-inducing alcohol burn), constitutes a weird, rather chemical, sweet and hardly hopped finish. An utterly bizarre concoction, clearly intended as some kind of liquid dessert, but way too boozy, pharmaceutical and artificial for me - this is an industrial abomination of a beer in my book. Worse than expected, and no one else at the small tasting session thought differently.