Bottled@HBF2018. Deep ambery brown colour with a small beige head. Aroma is caramel, ripe fruit, yeast, some spices and alcohol. Flavour is spices, burnt sugar, some yeast, alcohol and mild ripe berries.

Belgian style 'massieve ale', or quadrupel as it is usually called these days, by a small and to me hitherto unknown Slovenian craft brewery; steinie bottle received from Davor, thanks! Medium thick, mousy, regularly shaped, pale yellowish beige head over a hazy warm caramel-bronze beer with deep wine red hue. Aroma indeed very convincingly 'Belgian' and quite alluring, with notes of cranberry compote, hazelnut paste, fudge, walnuts, 'raw' candi sugar rocks, ruby port, butterscotch, cloves, subtle gravy, dried blackcurrant, whiff of dusty ground coriander seed, baked banana, 'kramiek', candied figs. Sweet onset with residual brown candi sugariness but not overly cloying, notes of fig, banana and ripe blue plum, softish carbonation, smooth and full mouthfeel; very caramelly malt sweetness, brown-bready and lightly nutty, rounded and a tad resinous, spiced with a dash of coriander seed and gingerbready notes but nowhere over the top, until a soothing, port-like alcohol effect rounds things off in a warming, smooth way. Perhaps a little bit more 'fullness' and a slightly better hidden alcohol flavour could even improve this beer, but these are minor criticisms: the major point here is that I am left astonished that some new Slovenian microbrewer manages to put together a quadrupel in full-fledged Belgian style which many beginning Belgian brewers can learn from. Highly impressed.