Four
Allagash Brewing Company in Portland, Maine, United States 🇺🇸
Belgian Style - Quadrupel / Dark Strong Rotating|
Score
7.39
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Our interpretation of a Belgian style quad, Four Ale is reddish brown in color and has flavors of raisin, candied fruit, and plum. We brew this beer with four malts (Caramel, Munich, Carapils, and 2-row), four sugars (Cane Sugar, Date Sugar, Belgian Dark Rock Candi, and Molasses), four hop varieties (Perle, Hallertau, Tettnang and Czech Saaz) and undergoes four fermentations, using four different yeast strains. The result of this elaborate brewing process is a complexity of flavor, aroma and mouth feel we believe is truly worth savoring.
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7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle pours a cloudy redish carmel color with a smann dense sandy head. Big soft sweet aroma of carmel and brown sugarm. Tastes of butter honey toast and a touch of tinfoil at the end. Thanks Jake !
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Oct 2007
at 21:42
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
750 ml. bottle. Light stone fruit aroma with biscuit, perhaps raisin. A slight suggestion of chocolate. Ruby tinged amber color with a white head that left rapidly. Medium bodied with moderate carbonation. The flavor is yeast, light stone fruit (peach), and spice. The finish is dry and somewhat earthy. It’s really good stuff. The alcohol is not at all intrusive.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Oct 2007
at 22:58
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
750ml Bottle from Country Club Liquors; nose of peaches, breadiness, and a slight tart hint; cloudy copper with a medium beige head; flavor has a hint of funkiness, in front of fruity esters (apricots and a little bananas), yeast and spices. Pretty good quad!
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Sep 2007
at 15:08
8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle. Unclear medium red brown color with a average fizzy fair lacing mostly diminishing off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, sugar, light hoppy and yeast, alcohol. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet with a average to long duration. Body is medium to full, texture is oily, syrupy, carbonation is osft, finish feel is light alcoholic.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Jun 2007
at 13:01
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
(Bottle 75 cl) Slightly hazy, dark amber with an off-white head. Complex, fruity and quite vinous aroma. Solid body with lots of fruit and sweetish caramel. Very complex, vinous, sherry-like flavours with a rather heavy alcoholic finish. 080107
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Jan 2007
at 12:23
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottled. A hazy amber beer with a thin beige head. The aroma is very alcoholic combined with notes of over ripe fruits, and a bit of whiskey. The flavor is very sweet with strong notes of alcohol, which leaves a bite in the mouth, but also with notes of over ripe fruits and lighter notes of prunes and spices, leading to a slightly bitter end. To me it would be even better if it was a bit more spicy.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Jan 2007
at 08:43
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Hazy ruby body with a small creamy tan head. Sweet caramel and fruit aroma. Sweet fruity caramel flavor with some mild hops in the background.
Tried
on 04 Dec 2006
at 20:55
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle, 750 ml; eye: amber with burgundy reflections, nice beige head, clear, no effervescence; nose: malt (caramel), hops, pepper, alcohol, spices, citrus, sweet and syrupy (Cointreau); mouth : malt, pepper, caramel, Cointreau, finale in caramel with a hint of pepper, full body, sticky texture, good carbonation, mildly sweet and bitter FRANÇAIS Bouteille, 750 ml; oeil : ambrée avec des reflets bourgognes, belle mousse beige, claire, pas d’effervescence; nez : malt (caramel), houblon, poivre, alcool, épices, citron, liquoreux (Cointreau); bouche : malt, poivre, caramel, Cointreau, finale caramel avec une pointe de poivre, corsé, texture collante, bonne carbonatation, moyennement sucrée et amère
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Oct 2006
at 15:58
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Pours deep orange into a trappist glass. Microbubble head quickly recedes to leave a scant head around the edge. Fruity aromas -- cherry, pear. Creamy, syrupy and sweet dough with a lasting fermented caramel fruit finish. Dates and pears.
Tried
from Can
on 22 Apr 2006
at 16:22
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Red-foxy, hazy beer; fast gone off-white head. Wine-y, vinous, sweet&sour fruit aromas. Phenolic taste but with very restrained sourness. Some rosewater flavour trait gives sweetness. Fruity flavours, but with a "bathroom soap" streak. Burning MF, slight oiliness, good body. First impression is always aggressive at Allagash brews. This is no exception. It mellows down eventually, but I have a slight problem with this.
Tried
on 21 Apr 2006
at 00:54