Lokerasse Quadrupel
Brouwerij Danny in Lede, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Quadrupel / Dark Strong Regular|
Score
6.63
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nathanvc (6963) reviewed Lokerasse Quadrupel from Brouwerij Danny 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Pours hazy dark amber with a stable, small, foamy, tan head. Aroma of sweet & sour cherry, plum jam, red apple, redcurrant, iron, pear syrup. Taste is a sour profile of unripe red apple, redcurrant & cherry; underneath there's sweet maltiness of caramel, plum & cake, a bit herbal with a faint touch of coriander. Tart, herbal hoppy finish, more sour fruit, syrup & heating liqueur-like alcohol. Medium body, thin syrupy texture, fizzy carbonation. Not getting that full-on syrupy sweetness here, I might even suspect my bottle was infected... Not sure I want to revisit, though.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Lokerasse Quadrupel from Brouwerij Danny 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
The newest one in this Lokereire / Lokerasse series, commissioned by a company linked to the Bokmolenhoeve in Lokeren and also selling cheese. This one does not have a Kroontje predecessor like the others, but in any case the label (and website) refuses to mention the actual brewery, as if wanting to pretend this is all home brewed in Lokeren - a petty, dishonest, small town attitude I utterly detest. Anyway, as for the beer: very thick and dense, creamy, tightly plaster-like lacing, pale yellowish beige head on a misty, very dark chocolate brown robe with ruby red hue - but approaching black in general appearance. Aroma of melting caramel, Pepsi cola, candied cherries, old brown sugar, pan-fried apples, Liège pear syrup, fig jam, dust, crumbled 'speculoos', cinnamon, some 'koetjesreep', whiff of coriander seed, (very!) faint background hints of old rubber, freshly blown out candle and iron. Sweet onset, candi sugariness coating fruity hints of freshly cut red apple, blue plum and peach, with a sourish blackberry-like undertone as well as a faint brown game stock-like umami touch, medium carbonated; full, slick, lean body, with the dark sugariness a tad syrupy - and cloying a bit to the teeth. Underneath lies a smooth caramelly and lightly bready maltiness with a clear metallic 'zing' to it - albeit in the background, muffled by this syrupy, indeed very 'sirop de Liège'- as well as 'speculoos'-like sweetness, including date, pear and fig aspects. Some kind of syrup was added here, providing more body than the actual malts; this explains why the whole beer ends a bit on the thin side, with only a light herbal hop bitterish note, and a clear afterglow of 'jenever'-like, warming alcohol, not unsurprisingly of course, seen the ABV. Sirop de Liège and caramel effects linger alongside a spicy cinnamon and coriander seed note. Even for a quad, this is a bit too sweet and sticky (Kasteelbier-ish), and I would not be surprised if actual sirop de Liège went in here - it has been used in a few other Belgian beers before, in at least one case (to my knowledge) with tasteful result. In all, an overly sweet, slightly metallic affair, though - so surely this could have been better, but I must admit that it has a somewhat distinct accent to it (though I hesitate to refer to that as 'Lokers'...).