Bottle shared by Caesar @ Mancave Bunnik. Dark brown color, average sized beige head. Smell and taste malts, medium sweet, distantly herbal, brown candy sugar, dark fruits lightly, somewhat bitter. Typical Belgian Quad. Alright.

Bottle at Het Mouterijtje. Black beer lasting tan head. Malty aroma. Good malty flavour in the mouth. Chocolate dark chocolate but kinda 60% cocoa rather than full on dark chocolate. Hides abv well. Yes good chocolate malt quad.

Cette Ox 12 fait partie des bières que j'ai du mal à comprendre. Pourquoi réaliser une bière aux arômes de vin aigrelet épicé avec du candy et des notes de prune. Certaines choses restent mystérieuses. Le visuel est sur un joli blond limpide avec une mousse brune peu présente. Le nez laisse dubitatif sur l'alcool à 90°, de la prune et du candy. La dégustation est toute autre et c'est davantage la sensation de vin aigre épicé qui ressort et ce dès l'attaque. Prune et candy complètent le tableau. La deuxième bouche est un peu plus douce avec des arômes de prune un peu plus affirmés et un alcool, à 10 % plus violent. L’arrière-bouche a quant à elle des relents de vin chaud qui laissent perplexe. Le final, sur la lancée ne convainc guère plus. En fait, je pense qu'il faut mieux que j'arrête de me poser des questions et qu'il me faut mieux oublier ce bœuf.

21/IV/20 - 33cl bottle from Bierhalle Deconinck (Vichte), shared @ home, BB: III/2021 (2020-356)

HUGE GUSHER!
Little cloudy dark brown beer, big aery irregular beige head, pretty stable, little adhesive. Aroma: very malty, caramel, soft roast, lots of alcohol, some phenols, ripe banana, dried fruits. MF: ok carbon, medium to full body. Taste: sweet start, lots of alcohol, pretty roasted, coffee notes, bitter touch, sugary. Aftertaste: nice roast, lots of alcohol, little metallic, nice bitterness, lots of coffee, dark chocolate, pretty decent beer, but I do NOT like that sort of gushers that spills half the bottle all over my table and floor!

Bottle from LDW, Eke. Dark brown colour, beige foam disappears quickly. Sweet nose of plums, brown sugar, caramel. Taste is rather sweet, malty with fruity hints (dried fruit). Also a bitter hoppy note. Not a bad one!

Quadrupel by this new microbrewery in Wevelgem, bottle from Bierhalle Deconinck. Quite a strong gusher. Opening, pale greyish beige, loosely moussy head lacing in dots over a misty chestnut brown beer with ruddy bronze hue and milky ‘clouds’ of yeast throughout – not a good sign visually. The aroma is however quite alright for the intended style: ripe blue plums and plum jam, caramel sauce, stewed pear, brown sugar, a truckload of coriander seed, soggy brown bread, dry earth, old brownies sprinkled with cocoa dust, red cabbage, cake dough, ginger powder, mud, cloves. Estery onset, lots of banana, blue plum and stewed pear or apple, sweet and brown sugary with a quite pronounced sourish undertone accentuated by overly fizzy carbonation. Fluffy, bready malt sweet middle, lingering brown sugariness, strong coriander soapiness and spicy phenols lead towards a very phenolic, sweet, very earthy and eventually rather ‘dirty’ yeasty finish with rum-like, warming alcohol and a herbal hop bitterish note. Your typical sweet and coriandered, thoroughly Belgian interpretation of a thoroughly Belgian style, well-intended but refermentation has gone a bit ‘wild’ here and we are technically far removed from the great standards in this style. Needs a lot more finetuning, but it’s not a bad start, all things considered.