Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

16 November 2019. At 4de Gentse Bierquiz. Cheers to Anke & Pieter! Hazy dark brown with a lasting, small, frothy, tan head. Aroma of rum-soaked raisin, brown rum, candied & even baked banana ('Baka Bana') dates, molasses, ripe plum. Taste is medium to heavy malty sweet, offering lots of candied fruit (raisin, date, plum) on a brioche-like & caramelly base with faint bitter herbal touches. Dryish, herbal hoppy finish, a bit peppery, lingering candied fruitiness & warming woody brown rum-like alcohol. Medium to full body, syrupy texture, soft carbonation. Pleasant surprise, as it's Romanian and it's BA but elegantly made.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Romanian (!) quadrupel aged on rum barrels, from a bottle, thanks Ama Deke. Thin and quickly breaking, open, loose, pale greyish white mousy ring on a hazy ruddy-chestnut brown beer with warm mahogany hue. Intense aroma of plum brandy, indeed the typical sweetness of brown rum, muscovado sugar, candied dates, brown honey, raisin, vanilla-like wet oak, hints of gravy and leather. Sweet onset, candi sugar, candied fig, fried bananas, very light gravy-like umami hint, soft carb; full and somewhat oily mouthfeel. Deeply caramelly malt sweet core with a hazelnutty edge and honeyish residual sweetness on top, ending mildly woody with that lovely vanilla-scenting oak aspect, followed by a strong, heating but not too wry booziness, clearly rum-flavoured and peppery, with the overall sweetness lingering. Much more a (darker side) barleywine or an imperial brown ale than a true Belgian style quadrupel but who cares: this is a fantastic, refined and beautiful sipper, clearly Romania, after countries like Poland, Hungary, Slovenia and Croatia, is becoming the next Eastern European country to succumb to the global craft beer revolution.

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8

Pours dark brown, small white head. Smell shows some rum, mild dried fruits. taste is thin, not as thick bodied nor intense as I had hoped. Rum is clear, but doesnt provide an overly boozy sensation, countering my fears. Pretty decent, but could use a more intense maltbase.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Imported from my RateBeer account as Oriel Quadrupel (Belize Rum BA) (by Oriel Beer):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 15/20, MyTotalScore: 3.5/5

18/VIII/19 - 33cl bottle @ Gents Bierfestival, BB: n/a - (2019-1293)
Clear dark brown beer, small to no head. Aroma: caramel, alcohol, nice stuff, some ripe banana, bit earthy. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: sweet start, bit oxidized, some dried fruits, little bitter, sweet malts, caramel. Aftertaste: caramel, bit earthy, malty touch, soft roast, alcohol, some dried fruits, alcohol.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

bottled on 12/10/18 scura schiuma quasi niente melasa liquorosa vaniglia uvetta corpo medio amaro contenuto finale etilico

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle shared at Luppolo Station in Rome, thank you Fabio. Typical quadrupel color with an ivory lacing. Nose: raisins and cane sugar, sweet dried fruit. Mouth is thin at first with an alcohol boost. Nice

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Waxed bouteille 33cl, @ Niamey Craft Beer tasting, thanks Madalin. Brune foncée, col fin beige. Arôme, dès ouverture je ressens les effluves d'un style belge, ici un bouquet levure belge marqué avec une addition de fruits noirs fort plaisant. Le tout sur de belles notes de rhum qui confère un côté oscillant entre malté et Rhum - léger boisé. Palais est délicieux, belle base de quad typiquement dans une lignée belge - retrouve les élément ester de levure un peu banane, fruits noirs entre date/figue et raisin secs, petite note de sucre candi - presque de mélasse et sucre de cane. Légèrement collant aux lèvres avec un excellent usage de barrique de rhum. Fini reprend de belles notes de malts entre toastés et fin chocolaté.

Dried fruit, rum and rum spices, caramel, oak. 3.9

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Almost opaque dark ruby with faint clear highlights, beige head with some lacing. The aroma is sticky dark sugars, maple syrups and oak vanilla. Surprisingly, almost no alcohol in the nose. On the other hand, you get light acetic notes (from the barrel?) and some wood too. No vinegar in the taste, there's a light note of something more resembling a wine barrel, which does rather good here, crating complexity and balancing out the sugars. And the sugars are still stronger, yet they don't feel sticky or plain. The alcohol is barely there - I'd prefer more heat. And of course, the barrel vanilla / maple syrup notes are here too, though not as strong as in the Jack Daniel's version - and maybe that's even better. Just the right mouthfeel, carbonation and all the other secondary metrics. One thing it's missing is a spicier Belgian yeast character. Overall, a really well done, complex and enjoyable strongie. Excellent.