4 Calling Birds
(has 3 batches)
The Bruery in Placentia, California, United States 🇺🇸
Belgian Style - Quadrupel / Dark Strong Series|
Score
7.42
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Dark Ale Brewed with Spices
We took inspiration from a traditional winter warmer, integrating gingerbread-like spices into this dark ale. Notes of licorice & banana bread mingle with hints of dark fruit, molasses and bitter chocolate for a perfect cold weather sipper!
We took inspiration from a traditional winter warmer, integrating gingerbread-like spices into this dark ale. Notes of licorice & banana bread mingle with hints of dark fruit, molasses and bitter chocolate for a perfect cold weather sipper!
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6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
25.02.2015, 0,75l bottle sampled @ BBGTC tasting:
Nice light amber creamy mediumlasting head. Aroma is slightly dry sour-ish fruity, spices, grass, caramel malts, weeds, ginger, citrus peel, alcohol, dried fruits, citrus peel, redwine. Taste is slightly sweet sour-ish fruity, spices, grass, sugar, dried fruits, citrus peel, alcohol, caramel malts, redwine. Medium bitterness, slightly dry mouthfeel. Fair enough.
Nice light amber creamy mediumlasting head. Aroma is slightly dry sour-ish fruity, spices, grass, caramel malts, weeds, ginger, citrus peel, alcohol, dried fruits, citrus peel, redwine. Taste is slightly sweet sour-ish fruity, spices, grass, sugar, dried fruits, citrus peel, alcohol, caramel malts, redwine. Medium bitterness, slightly dry mouthfeel. Fair enough.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Nov 2018
at 16:30
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle. Pours hazy reddish chestnut, small tan head, dissipates quickly with some lacing. Aroma is Christmas spices, cinnamon, ginger, allspice. Really does remind one of gingerbread. Flavor is medium sweet, light bitter, lots of gingnerbread spices going on. Medium body. Not bad, but it turns out that if you accidentally spill and shatter your glass of it all over the couch, and end table and your wife’s computer, she may not be too happy about it. In the end she took it fairly well, but it did take me a good two hours to clean everything to her satisfaction, and I know that a key or two is a bit sticky now. I am guessing its not the last I have heard of it. I do have a nice little cut on my pinky to remind me of my stupidity, but it is healing way too fast to really outlast the memory of the event itself.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Aug 2015
at 18:25
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
750ml bottle. Cloudy dark brown colour with small, thick, frothy to creamy, half-way lasting, moderately lacing, ochre-ish beige to tan head. Sweet-ish dark malty aroma, notes of honey, ginger, a touch of cinnamon and aniseed, gingerbread aroma overall. Taste delivers identical flavours with different emphasis, more honey and aniseed, less ginger; viscous, oily texture, gooey palate. Well balanced, complete avoidance of hazardously soapy notes. Again, as might be the most substantial characteristic for The Brewerys Brue’s, I’m torn between admiration concerning their elusive imitation of genuine non-beer (product) flavours and the simple question: "Wherefore?"
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Jun 2015
at 12:49