Loo-blah-nah Belgian Quadrupel

Belgian Quadrupel

 

Loo-blah-nah in Ljubljana, Central Slovenia, Slovenia 🇸🇮

  Belgian Style - Quadrupel / Dark Strong Regular
Score
7.01
ABV: 8.8% IBU: 16 Ticks: 4
The strongest of the Trappist style beers will impress you with its dark bordeaux color and explicit aroma of malted barley. The complex blend of smells and tastes reminds of dry fruits, nuts and caramel. This beer was aged in Refošk wine oak barrels which seasoned it with a slight acidity and added a wooden note. Serve between 12 and 15 ºC.
 

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6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

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.

Tried from Bottle on 13 Jul 2023 at 20:31


6.5

Tried on 01 Feb 2022 at 16:11


7.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5

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.

Tried from Bottle on 04 Jan 2019 at 19:43


8.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7.5

Pours dirty and hazy brown, topped with smaller beige head. Malty nose with chocolate, some roastiness, a little bit of yeast, gentle spices and some dry fruits. Fuller and silky body. Chocolate sweetness with gentle spicess. Finish gently bitter and slight roastiness in the aftertaste, also a bit peppery. Nice, complex but easily drinkable.

Tried on 22 Feb 2018 at 21:42