Cool beer, the barrel aging is at the front and it is strong, boozy and complex. Very good. Foeders ams

33cl Fles van Landal Coldenhove. Donkerbuine kleur, dunne kraag. Extreem zoet, suikerwater, hint van bourbon en vanille, bruine suiker, dadels, vijgen, lievevrouwenbedstro wat ook zoet en kruidig is, weinig bitter of diepgang. Zeker niet ongenietbaar, maar vooral erg simpel en overdadig zoet. Jammer voor dit bedrag.

Rum barrel aged edition of BBC Four, a quadrupel flavoured with woodruff, by Dutch Bronckhorster (formerly Rodenburg); bottle from Beerdome in Groningen. Medium thick, off-white, quickly opening head, deep chestnut brown robe with warm, deep amberish glow. Aroma of caramel, toffee, banana, sweet sherry, incense or even paraffin somewhere, vanilla-like oak wood, brown rum, cooked apple, wet clay, chewing gum, ripe peach, date jam, coriander seed. Sweet onset, banana mingled with candied fig and peach jam, bit bubblegummy, softish carb, full mouthfeel; toffeeish, hazelnutty, even somewhat milk-chocolatey and brown-bready malt body, layered and mouth-filling with a toasty-bittering edge in the end, with drying spicy and eventually strong tannic-woody impressions (though hardly any recognizable woodruff), followed by warming, rum-like alcohol, managing to avoid annoying booziness in spite of being very present. Sweet and even a bit sticky but interesting, distinct quad, unusual but certainly not lacking in complexity. May further improve with age.

Bottle. Dark brown color. Kruidkoek, oak, vanilla in the aroma. Malty sweet flavor with kruidkoek and dominant spicy notes. Vanilla and bourbon.