--- Beer merged from original tick of Nonkel Pater on 17 Jan 2019 at 11:19 - Score: 7

Edit 3/7/2020 Donkerbruin bier met mooie schuimkraag dit keer. Smaak is warm en krachtig met iets van karamel, wat anijs en bessen. Zoals door anderen ook al aangegeven blijft het bier iets te waterig.

Dunkler, süßlich malziger Beginn. Herb, getreidig. Kurzer Nachhall. 10/9/9/9//9

Sampled @ Billie's Craft Beer Fest 2018, Day 2. A very dark brown beer with a small off-white head. Aroma of dark roasted malt, dried fruits, raisins. Taste of dried fruits, plums, raisins.

Bottle. Dark brown pour. Aroma of sweet banana candy, malt and caramel. Taste has sugary sweet banana candy, yeast, caramel, iron and some mocha. Like they used german weizenyeast and extra sugar. Bad.

Draught beige head over deep dark chestnut coloured beer. Chocolate, bit ashy, but also amandine, marzipan, very perfumey malts used, bit roasted too. Diacetyl, marzipan, chocolate malts. Well-bodied, light alcoholwarmth. The sweet-perfumed character seems to be a constant for ABC beers - not to mention again diacetyl. Johan, make your beers drier - remember Duvel?

One of this Antwerp brewing company's new beers, steinie bottle from the Delhaize supermarket in Lokeren. Claims to have the softness of a dubbel and the richness of a quadrupel, but since quadrupel is basically nothing else than an extra strong dubbel and this beer clocks in a 9% ABV, this is a quadrupel by definition - so do away with that confusing 'qua-dubbel' description please. Anyway: very thick, yellowish beige, very foamy and frothy head, lacing and moussy, thinning and opening slowly over a lightly hazy, very dark ruddy chestnut coloured beer with warm wine red hue; more misty with sediment. Inviting, but very classically Belgian quad aroma of dried plum, candied fig, coriander seed, muscovado sugar, chocolate-coated cashew nuts, dried banana, cloves, brownies, treacle, ruby port, nougat, hazelnuts, toasted bread crust, brandy. Sweet onset, brown candi sugar sweetness with fruity notes of freshly cut red apple, dried banana and fig, soft sourish undertone, medium carbonation, full, rounded and bit creamy, as well as slightly resinous mouthfeel, completely fit for the style. Toffeeish, caramelly and brown-bready malt body with a soft, thin toasty bitter edge in the end, blending with strong coriander seed soapy-spiciness, herbal and earthy, slightly tea-ish, late hop bitterness, clove-like 'Belgian' phenols well-applied in this case, and strong but not too obnoxious, pleasantly glowing brandy-tinged alcohol. Sweetness lingers after swallowing, fig and caramel, but the bitterness remains as well, both toasty and alcoholic in nature. Very typical quadrupel, relatively well-bodied and well-balanced, clearly the great trappists in this particular style provided all inspiration here - but within that tried and tested mold, this is better executed than I was expecting. Technically flawless, full and rich, there are many worse trappist-imitating quads on the Belgian market. Just that name... How cliché can you get? Even back in the seventies and eighties traditional Belgian brewers were often more inventive in their name-giving...

Draught @ Zeezicht Breda. Dark brown to black colored beer with a red hue coming through. Medium sized beige to light brown colored head. Aroma is malts, caramel, toffee, sweet and slightly artificial banana. Flavor is malts, caramel, toffee again, caramelized sugar, dark candy sugar, initially a bit sweet but a rather dry, slightly nutty light malt bitter finish. Decent beer, I enjoyed it.