Quadrupel - Oak Aged Batch #39
La Trappe Trappist - Abdij O.L.V. Koningshoeven in Berkel-Enschot, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands 🇳🇱
Belgian Style - Quadrupel / Dark Strong Series Out of Production|
Score
7.41
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71% Jameson Sherry Cask Whiskey, 18% Speyside Cask Whiskey, 5.5% New Oak High Toast, 5.5% New Oak Medium Toast 2018
Batch 39 is geblend in Augustus 2020.
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle from Mitra Assendorp, Zwolle. Rich barrel character with an aroma of caramel, marzipan, whiskey, oak, dried fruits. Raisins, sugar, vanilla. Medium sweet, bit boozy. Body is above medium. Complex, rich, dried fruits, vanilla.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8.5
Small hiss. Fairly dark amber, little bit cloudy, light edges of white foam. Smells sweet, banana, little bit of whiskey, wood. Body is decent, well carbed, almost too much. Taste is fairly rich, light bitter over sweet. Pear drops, whiskey, wood, raisins
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8
Taster at home courtesy of Sander, big thanks. brownish / red color, small off-white head. smells raisins, marzipan, nutty, light sherry, figs, tobacco, lightly glueish. overall very nice smell. full body, light carbonation. tastes sweet, sherry, peppery, spices, bit rubbery, some dried fruits, honey, bit glueish, some marzipan. finishes bit bitter and sweet with notes of honey, dried fruits and some peppery notes. was a bit harsh at first, but mellows out to get smoother once warmer. Overall good sipper, quite heavy on the honey notes.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle at home, darker brown beer, small head. Aroma is sweet, malt, raisins, caramel, some whisky. Taste is the same, whiskey, sweet, raisins. Tastes better than aroma but a lesser one of la trappe
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
One of the latest variants in this endless series of oak aged quads, thanks to Craftmember for fetching me this bottle, packed in a neat cardboard cylinder box. Egg-white, moussy, immediately opening and quickly dissolving head, misty bronze-brown robe with coppery hue. Aroma of caramel sauce, whisky, Belgian chocolates, lots of vanilla-scenting oak wood, candied fig, wood glue, toffee, yellow raisins, almond, pear syrup, something solventy (hair spray or shoe polish). Sweet onset, candied figs and raisins, softish carb which may account for the lack of head retention, full and slick body; deeply caramelly-sweet maltiness with bready core and pecan-nutty edge, brown honey-like sweetness lingering, candied sugariness even to the point of becoming a bit sticky. Rich finish filled with ongoing caramel sweetness, retronasal vanilla impression from the oak wood and whisky-like booziness with a touch of herbal hops, but the caramel and brown sugar sweetness prevails. Sweet and boozy, a tad sweeter than average in this series perhaps, but certainly rich and complex as ever. The whisky is very clear here, but it works for me.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Fles gekocht bij de brouwerij. Thuis geprobeerd met LiekevdV. Het is een troebel bruin bier met een volle beige schuim. Het heeft een whisky achtige geur met tonen van hout en noten. De smaak is vol, fruitig, gebrande mout, sherry en kruidig warm in de afdronk.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle at home. Dark amber color, virtually no head. Aroma is malts, brown candysugar, caramelized sugars. Flavor is malts, caramel, caramelized sugars, whiskey notes, perfect harmony. Medium to full body, suitable fairly soft carbonation, pleasantly sticky texture. Lovely as always.