Quadrupel
Gloriaan in Temse, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Brewed at/by: BCB (Formerly known as Brouwerij Eutropius)Belgian Style - Quadrupel / Dark Strong Regular
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Score
6.51
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beerhunter111 (50837) reviewed Quadrupel from Gloriaan 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Sampled @ Zythos Beer Festival 2022. A clear dark brown beer with a beige head. Aroma of raisins, intense dark fruits. Taste of strong dark malt, raisins, liquorice.
Koelschtrinker (42759) reviewed Quadrupel from Gloriaan 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4.5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
Dunkler süßer Malzbeginn. Erkennbarer Alkohol, metallene Nuancen, langweilig. 8/6/7/6//7
Sloefmans (15519) reviewed Quadrupel from Gloriaan 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5
Huge dark-cream head, very stable and lacey over jet-black beer. Huge head seriously hampers nasal perception. Dry black malts, straw,... Jap , liquorice, liquorice childrens' sweets. Dark candi sugar, roasted/burnt notes, very slightly mineral, some dry hops lingering. Quite slick, viscous, some alcohol is obvious. Too sweet if without mistakes.
Alengrin (11675) reviewed Quadrupel from Gloriaan 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
The quadrupel in this still young series (I wonder why it was entered as a barleywine here in spite of explicitly positioning itself as a quad), bottle from Fontana in Sint-Niklaas. Very thick and frothy, pale ecru-beige, cobweb-lacing, foamy head on a misty dark chocolate brown beer with glowing vermillion red hue. Aroma of strong carbon dioxide (the prickling of the nostrils you get when you open a bottle of strongly carbonated water), hard caramel, brown bread crust, very clear iron, ground pecan nuts, brown sugar, cloves, coriander seed, 'jenever', wet toast, nutmeg. Fruity onset but very cleanly and restrainedly so, notes of fig, unripe peach and apple peel, some banana too but not overly bubblegummy, lively carbonation, full and rounded mouthfeel; caramelly maltiness with nutty and eventually toasty-bitter edges, clearly metallic too (most likely head stabilizer), bitterish finish from toasted malts accentuated by a dash of leafy hops, a tad earthy in the end with a warming, eventually somewhat wry, 'jenever'-like alcohol effect. Very malt-forward and 'clean' interpretation of quadrupel with more emphasis on malt bitterness, almost more akin to a German Doppelbock than a true Belgian quad, quite interesting but too bad for the metallic aspect, which was a bit annoying.
nathanvc (7053) reviewed Quadrupel from Gloriaan 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle as a Christmas present - many thanks, Elke! Impressions of prune, raisin, candied apricot, liquorice, dark honey, dried orange peel, liqueur, Cola. Very sweet taste of candied plum, apricot, date; honey malt body, caramel and orange peel, bit toasty. Herbal hoppy finish, lingering spicy-sweet liquorice, dried fruit and heating brandy-like aclohol. Still not very well balanced but I like that vague toasty accent.
Original rating: 8/6/7/6/7=6.8. 27 April 2019. At Zythos Bierfestival. Deputy Taster: Anke. Cheers to Ama Deke, Erwin, John & Meeki!
Hazy dark brown, lasting, very thin, tan head. Aroma of pear syrup, nougat, burnt caramel, mocha, raisin, licorice, toast. Taste is medium to heavy malty sweet, notes of dried banana, raisin & licorice, somewhat roasted in the form of mocha & toast with a sourish, brambleberry-like undercurrent, leading to a dryish, herbal hoppy finish where caramel & licorice linger, some warming amaretto-like alcohol to top it off. Medium body, syrupy texture, soft carbonation. Decent enough Quad (or Barley Wine), not very well balanced though.