Quadrupel
De Meester in Lendelede, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Quadrupel / Dark Strong Regular|
Score
7.25
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Een zeer donker complex bier met een uitgesproken koffiesmaak en een zoete afdronk.
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8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
330 ml bottle into chalice, no bottle dating. Quick gusher upon opening, didn't lose any. Pours hazy very dark brown color with a 1-2 finger dense and rocky tan head with awesome retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lasts. Thick soapy lacing clings around the glass, with a moderate amount of streaming carbonation retaining the cap. Fantastic appearance. Aromas of big raisin, plum, prune, fig, cherry, date, apricot, red apple, peppercorn, clove, caramel, brown sugar, brown bread, chocolate, toasted biscuit, herbal, floral, and grass; with lighter notes of nuttiness, coffee, licorice, toffee, molasses, banana, and yeast/roast/toasted earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of fruity/spicy yeast, dark/roast/bready malt, candi sugar, and light-moderate earthy hop notes; with great strength. Taste of big raisin, plum, prune, fig, cherry, date, apricot, red apple, peppercorn, clove, caramel, brown sugar, brown bread, chocolate, toasted biscuit, herbal, floral, and grass; with lighter notes of nuttiness, coffee, licorice, toffee, molasses, banana, and yeast/roast/toasted earthiness. Light herbal/grassy/roast bitterness, yeast spiciness, and slight yeast tang/tartness on the finish. Lingering notes of dark fruits, cherry, apricot, red apple, peppercorn, clove, caramel, brown sugar, brown bread, chocolate, toasted biscuit, nuttiness, light coffee/licorice/molasses, herbal, floral, grass, and yeast/roast/toasted earthiness on the finish for a while. Awesome complexity, robustness, and balance of fruity/spicy yeast, dark/roast/bready malt, candi sugar, and light-moderate earthy hop flavors; with a great malt/bitter/spiciness balance, and zero cloying/astringent flavors after the finish. Lightly increasing dryness from bitter/spiciness and carbonation. Medium-high carbonation and medium-full body; very smooth, creamy/bready/grainy, and lightly sticky/chalky/tangy balanced mouthfeel that is great. Minimal warming alcohol for 9.5%. Overall this is an awesome quadrupel style. All around great complexity, robustness, and balance of fruity/spicy yeast, dark/roast/bready malt, candi sugar, and light-moderate earthy hop flavors; very smooth and amazingly easy to sip on for the big ABV; with the mildly bitter/spicy/drying finish. Very rich and complex malts/candi sugar; with great balanced yeast complexity, and balancing bitter/earthy hop flavor presence. A really enjoyable offering, and spot on style example.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Oct 2017
at 19:47
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Dark brown colour, no head. Fairly sweet with caramel notes and yeast dominating.
Tried
on 30 Apr 2016
at 07:51
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
From tap. Pours hazy brown with a small tan head. Aroma is verripe fruity, spiced and toasted malt. Toasted malt, overripe fruity. Phenolic. Quite fruity. Dense malty finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 20 Mar 2016
at 03:59
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 9
Sampled at BAB 2016. Thnx for sharing, everyone ! Pours dark brown, small white head. Smell is pure, leaves, sweet ( very caramelly ) taste is sharp,caramel. Sweet, bit dark malts. OK MF, sharp, but high carbo.
Tried
on 27 Feb 2016
at 03:13
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
06/02/2016 sample @ BAB shared by tederoeck, 77ships, kradel, ... Very dark brown, just a small lacing left. Nose is dark fruits, caramel, dark malts. Taste is dark malts, licorice, dark fruits, Nice but classical dark beer, clearly inspired by famous examples. So no points for originalty.
Tried
on 17 Feb 2016
at 15:41
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Sampled 330 ml. bottle @ Bierfestival Brugge 2016. Thank you for sharing! Blackish dark brown, little mocha head. Nose is huge gravy, umami, herbal licorice, overly syrupy dark grape, heavy odd gravy umami quality takes it way down for me. Taste is weird herbal licorice umami, something spoiled, really messy, oddly gravy-heavy, spoiled herbal. Weird licorice mocha & herbal body. Far too gravy-like for my liking.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Feb 2016
at 13:52
7/10
Tried
on 07 Feb 2016
at 18:17
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Leicht trübes orange braunes Bier mit einer mittelgroßen beigen Schaumkrone. Geruch sehr malzig, reifes Obst, Karamell. Geschmack süß malzig, reifes Obst, Karamell, Vanille, leicht alkoholisch.
Tried
on 07 Feb 2016
at 07:56
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as De Meester Quadrupel (by De Meester):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 13/20, MyTotalScore: 3.5/5
6/II/16 - bottle @ Brugs Bierfestival - BB: n/a (2016-127) Thanks to the Belgian ratebeer crew for sharing today's beers!
Clear dark purple brown beer, small creamy beige head, pretty stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: some banana, lots of caramel, dried fruits, sweet impression. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: sweet start, little roasted, some mocha, dried fruits, lots of overripe banana. Aftertaste: more banana, little bitter, fruity touch, dried fruits, raisins, some alcohol, yeast, bit metallic in the finish.
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 13/20, MyTotalScore: 3.5/5
6/II/16 - bottle @ Brugs Bierfestival - BB: n/a (2016-127) Thanks to the Belgian ratebeer crew for sharing today's beers!
Clear dark purple brown beer, small creamy beige head, pretty stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: some banana, lots of caramel, dried fruits, sweet impression. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: sweet start, little roasted, some mocha, dried fruits, lots of overripe banana. Aftertaste: more banana, little bitter, fruity touch, dried fruits, raisins, some alcohol, yeast, bit metallic in the finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Feb 2016
at 15:09
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
One of this new village brewery’s beers, bottle bought at Diester Bierfestival. Thin, lightly lacing, pale greyish beige head, breaking quickly in the middle (presumably under the influence of the alcohol) but retaining very well around the edges of the glass. Very dark brown colour but still translucent with a warm, ’autumny’ mahogany reddish brown hue, clear. Opulent and not unpleasant aroma of a lot of caramel candy and butterscotch, ’Haagse hopjes’ and Belgian chocolates, toasted bread, candied dates, raisin, banana liqueur, marzipan or even amaretto, kahlua, black pepper, ruby port, coriander, dried leaves but in a ’clean’ kind of way. Candied sweet, almost Belgian chocolate-like onset, very sugary but refined and not too cloying, candied orange touch, dry banana, dates, marzipan, soft carbo just fit for the style, smooth and resinous, supple mouthfeel, thoroughly caramelly to the point of becoming candyish, toasted and chocolatey with a very light, soft, not too pronounced but quite well-balancing roasted bitterishness; noble peppery hops are added in the finish but maltiness is key here, leaving a bittersweet coating in the back of the mouth along with some coriander spiciness and a quite outspoken, liqueurish and brandyish alcohol effect, leaving a slight burn and warming the chest. Perhaps a tad too alcoholic in that sense and clearly very much tilted to the candied sweet side, but if you like this style, this is recommendable. The candied, ’praline’-like, sweet and resinous profile with spicy edges strongly reminds me of the Gouden Carolus range: it seems either Gouden Carolus Classic or Cuvée Van De Keizer Blauw was taken as a model in developing this beer. But even as a Gouden Carolus epigone, this is a rather classy example of the style and a nice surprise coming from a new micro brewery - it makes me curious about the rest of their range. Only downside to me is the alcohol, which is clearly too obvious here.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Oct 2015
at 10:56