The Quad
Free State Brewing Company in Lawrence, Kansas, United States 🇺🇸
Belgian Style - Quadrupel / Dark Strong Regular|
Score
6.83
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Re-rate: next winter, next batch and nothing has changed. Still full of estery and fruit quad.
Shaker @ the brewpub (I cannot believe it was served in a shaker). This beer follows the pattern of all the other FS Belgian styles brews I have had - not well executed. This was a very FRUITY quad, I mean the fruitiest yeast aspects I have ever come across. This does not go all that well with the sweet malt backbone (think brown sugar and yada yada). Its decent stuff and actually not heavy, even a a bit watery in texture too offset the sweetness. However, its not what I look for in a quad, particularly one that is named "the Quad." It did come with a thick foamy atop a dark brown body, which made it appealing enough.
theisti (5540) reviewed The Quad from Free State Brewing Company 16 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
10 oz draft pour at the brewpub. Pour is cloudy brown with a slight ruby twinge, and a small off white head that leaves behind mild lacing as it falls. Aroma of yeast bubblegum, some fruity over ripe banana and some nutty caramel malt below that. After the beer opens up, there is a nice roast element. Taste starts with the bubblegum banana sweetness, then turns to the caramel and hazelnut malt, finishing with a whisper of the roast from the nose. Better flavor integration in the taste vs the nose. Palate is medium, mouth coating, with low carbonation levels. This is not normally a favorite style (when it is on the sweet side of the style), though this was an enjoyable quad.