Train Des Ridéra
Brasserie Atrium in Marche-en-Famenne, Luxembourg, Belgium 🇧🇪
Collab with: Dok Brewing CompanyBelgian Style - Quadrupel / Dark Strong Special Out of Production
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Score
7.48
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Almost 2 years ago, we met Dimitri & Janos from Dok Brewing Company
in Gent... what was a get-to-know/courtesy visit ended up in a “Train des Ridéra” game that directly cemented the friendship, raised the drinking skills but also gave the name of what will be brewed together someday!
And 2 years later (we had to postpone it twice last year... thanks Covid!) that day arrived - the Train de Ridéra got to the station!
As the train got played with a quadrupel, we went for a 9.8% Rhum Raisins Quadrupel with a rich malt complexity, which leaves it thicker than the Trappist versions.
For the eyes, a dark brown color with dark red reflexes and a clear brown foam.
For the smell and taste, delicious dark fruity esters and smooth balance between alcohol and malts.
The label refers to the vision of rails after leaving the Train des Ridéra table
in Gent... what was a get-to-know/courtesy visit ended up in a “Train des Ridéra” game that directly cemented the friendship, raised the drinking skills but also gave the name of what will be brewed together someday!
And 2 years later (we had to postpone it twice last year... thanks Covid!) that day arrived - the Train de Ridéra got to the station!
As the train got played with a quadrupel, we went for a 9.8% Rhum Raisins Quadrupel with a rich malt complexity, which leaves it thicker than the Trappist versions.
For the eyes, a dark brown color with dark red reflexes and a clear brown foam.
For the smell and taste, delicious dark fruity esters and smooth balance between alcohol and malts.
The label refers to the vision of rails after leaving the Train des Ridéra table
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8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bouteille 33cl, BB 01/2026, lot# 045/20.
Petite dernière de chez Atrium qui continue à sortir des nouveautés. Ici, une belle collaboration avec les gantois de Dok.
Couleur cuivre virant sur léger acajou avec un col épais et crémeux sur une palette de blanc-cassé.
Arôme est malté, léger apport chocolaté, fruits noirs et secs, toffee, raisin bread pudding, pointe épicée rappelant le clou de girofle avec pointe de guimauve.
Palais est sur un caractère général belge - retrouve le classique fruité sec des quad dont la figue, date, raisin sec avec ici la particularité que de vrais raisins trempés dans du rhum ont été ajoutés à la bière - cela donne une sensation fruitée plus marquée avec un apport de rondeur de bouche plus présente - cela garde un peu ce côté 'Italian Grape Ale' et raisins macérés - ce côté rhum apporte une touche de fraicheur sans jamais être surfait. Retrouve là un côté plus sucre de canne - caramélisé qui se prête bien au jeu avec l'usage des raisins. Ce côté rhum se fait ressentir en fin de bouche pour ce côté 'soaked raisins' - l'effet épicé ressenti au nez se dissipe un peu en bouche.
L'effervescence est juste où il faut et s'accompagne par un fini bien malté - petite amertume de fin qui s'entremêle à la note de rhum.
C'est bon, délicat malgré les quasi 10% - bcp plus approchable que la dernière Atrium à 15%.
Petite dernière de chez Atrium qui continue à sortir des nouveautés. Ici, une belle collaboration avec les gantois de Dok.
Couleur cuivre virant sur léger acajou avec un col épais et crémeux sur une palette de blanc-cassé.
Arôme est malté, léger apport chocolaté, fruits noirs et secs, toffee, raisin bread pudding, pointe épicée rappelant le clou de girofle avec pointe de guimauve.
Palais est sur un caractère général belge - retrouve le classique fruité sec des quad dont la figue, date, raisin sec avec ici la particularité que de vrais raisins trempés dans du rhum ont été ajoutés à la bière - cela donne une sensation fruitée plus marquée avec un apport de rondeur de bouche plus présente - cela garde un peu ce côté 'Italian Grape Ale' et raisins macérés - ce côté rhum apporte une touche de fraicheur sans jamais être surfait. Retrouve là un côté plus sucre de canne - caramélisé qui se prête bien au jeu avec l'usage des raisins. Ce côté rhum se fait ressentir en fin de bouche pour ce côté 'soaked raisins' - l'effet épicé ressenti au nez se dissipe un peu en bouche.
L'effervescence est juste où il faut et s'accompagne par un fini bien malté - petite amertume de fin qui s'entremêle à la note de rhum.
C'est bon, délicat malgré les quasi 10% - bcp plus approchable que la dernière Atrium à 15%.
Tried
from Bottle
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Malting Pot
on 13 Mar 2021
at 16:01
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Collab between Dok (obviously one of my local favorites) and befriended Atrium in Marche-en-Famenne, a quad flavoured with rum-soaked raisins, which - considering the general flavour of quadrupels - seems kind of logical. Quite thick and frothy, membrane-like lacing, yellowish pale beige, irregularly edged but consistent head on a misty dark bronze beer with warm and 'autumny' ruby red glow. Aroma of indeed sweet raisins and raisin bread, marzipan, caramel sauce, brown rum but (fortunately for me because I hate it) not too strong, cashew nuts, gingerbread, dark candi sugar, brownies, cinnamon, brown soap or even bee wax, touch vanilla in the background, rainwater, tea, old toast, jute, dry tree leaves. Sweet onset, rounded with a cleanish, but still estery fruitiness of ripe pear, lots of raisins (enhanced by the presence of actual raisins of course) and candied figs, refined but very active carbonation, slight sourish undertone, full and rounded mouthfeel; the brown candi sugar sweetness lingers over a smooth brownies-, toffee- and pecan nut-like maltiness but does not stick to the teeth. The raisin factor obviously remains, but actually blends in completely with the overall malt and yeast profile of the beer, so that in the end, I guess you could drink this one without ever knowing that there were raisins in it - the rum, on the other hand, becomes quite present in the finish, effectuating a hot and way too obvious booziness with even slight solventy effects, while the dark candi sweetness, caramelly maltiness and a dash of leafy hop bitterishness pass by. Slight notes of cinnamon, clove and nutmeg appear retronasally but remain very mild background accents. The solventy aspect sadly becomes a bit much to tolerate in the end, while the rum begins to 'sting' a bit in the throat - yet without actually dominating the finish with a real rum flavour. For me personally, this one is too boozy, with alcohol heat burning away in the throat seconds after swallowing, but I guess that is what you get when you add rum to a quad and the general flavour profile indeed matches classic quadrupel lore; more importantly than that rather burning booziness, however, it lacks a bit in the balance, 'fullness' and 'mouth-filling properties' of the true greats in this style, think Rochefort 10, Westvleteren 12 or Sint-Bernardus Abt 10. Not a bad effort: this matches the general profile of a typical present-day quad, the rum nor the raisins are overly obtrusive and the sweetness remains tolerable, but the alcohol is not well hidden and more (malty) depth is needed to fully have a shot at the top ranks in this category. Still a very pleasant and interesting sipper, in all, with a long-lasting finish. --- Beer merged from original tick of (collab with) Dok Train des Ridéra on 06 Mar 2021 at 01:56 - Score: Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5. Original review text: Collab between Dok (obviously one of my local favorites) and befriended Atrium in Marche-en-Famenne, a quad flavoured with rum-soaked raisins, which - considering the general flavour of quadrupels - seems kind of logical. Quite thick and frothy, membrane-like lacing, yellowish pale beige, irregularly edged but consistent head on a misty dark bronze beer with warm and 'autumny' ruby red glow. Aroma of indeed sweet raisins and raisin bread, marzipan, caramel sauce, brown rum but (fortunately for me because I hate it) not too strong, cashew nuts, gingerbread, dark candi sugar, brownies, cinnamon, brown soap or even bee wax, touch vanilla in the background, rainwater, tea, old toast, jute, dry tree leaves. Sweet onset, rounded with a cleanish, but still estery fruitiness of ripe pear, lots of raisins (enhanced by the presence of actual raisins of course) and candied figs, refined but very active carbonation, slight sourish undertone, full and rounded mouthfeel; the brown candi sugar sweetness lingers over a smooth brownies-, toffee- and pecan nut-like maltiness but does not stick to the teeth. The raisin factor obviously remains, but actually blends in completely with the overall malt and yeast profile of the beer, so that in the end, I guess you could drink this one without ever knowing that there were raisins in it - the rum, on the other hand, becomes quite present in the finish, effectuating a hot and way too obvious booziness with even slight solventy effects, while the dark candi sweetness, caramelly maltiness and a dash of late but effective leafy hop bitterishness pass by. Slight notes of cinnamon, clove and nutmeg appear retronasally but remain very mild background accents. The solventy aspect sadly becomes a bit much to tolerate in the end, while the rum begins to 'sting' a bit in the throat - yet without actually dominating the finish with a real rum flavour. For me personally, this one is too boozy, with alcohol heat burning away in the throat seconds after swallowing, but I guess that is what you get when you add rum to a quad and the general flavour profile indeed matches classic quadrupel lore; more importantly than that rather burning booziness, however, it lacks a bit in the balance, 'fullness' and 'mouth-filling properties' of the true greats in this style, think Rochefort 10, Westvleteren 12 or Sint-Bernardus Abt 10. Not a bad effort: this matches the general profile of a typical present-day quad, the rum nor the raisins are overly obtrusive and the sweetness remains tolerable, but the alcohol is not well hidden and more (malty) depth is needed to fully have a shot at the top ranks in this category. Still a very pleasant and interesting sipper, in all, with a long-lasting finish.
Tried
on 06 Mar 2021
at 02:18