Bottle. Color: Red copper, frothy beige head. Aroma: Sweet, malty, sugary, caramel, raisins. Taste: Caramel malt, sugary, boozy, yeasty, honey, spicy notes, notes of raisins and dark fruit and citrus hints. Bit foamy mouthfeel. Grassy hop in the background. Full body, average carbonation. A little too much carbonation for this style in my opinion. overall ok, but I prefer the standard La Trappe Quadrupel that's better balanced and more drinkable in my opinion.

75cl bottle split with Dutchdrebus. Unclear brownish color, full sized off-white head. Smell and taste malts, sweetish a bit, but also somewhat bitter. Irritating heavy carbonation. LT makes quads better themselves.

Keg at BD Tower Hill, 07/12/21. Light haze on a mahogany brown pour with a decent beige head. Nose is light varnish, stewed fruits, nutty twang, fruit cake. Taste comprises dark fruit rinds, spice, toffee, herb, fruit cake, bread pudding, dark malts, light yeast esters, figgy jam, stewed fruits, clove, brown bread. Full bodied, fine carbonation, nip of warming booze at the curtain call. Decent Quad.

Na 1 slok weet ik het al, dit is allemaal maar zo zo..waar is de mooie zachte balans van een La Trappe, dit is vrij bitter allemaal ook in de afdronk, nah.. jammer dat het in een 75 cl fles zit ook ..

Very good, dense, cream head over very well-carbonated deep red beer. Huge head seriously hampering nasal perception. Chocolate malt, dry coloured malts, leafy, woody, undergrowth.. Petit Beurre. Sweet-woody, with a special flavour. The honey, no doubt, but I wouldn't have guessed that blind. Dried (dark) fruit, and some more chocolate and leaves. Quite thick in the feel and body, whipped eggwhite-like texture. Better than feared, but still... the only innovative is the collab. Thanks to Stef!

Now here is a surprise: there have been a few collaborations between trappist breweries recently, but to my knowledge, this is the first time a trappist brewery collaborates with a non-trappist brewery, one of the 'founding fathers' of American style craft brewing in Europe, no less... Basically La Trappe Quadrupel enriched with heather honey, from a 75 cl bottle with cork and muselet. Medium thick, pale greyish beige, moussy, shred-lacing, slowly thinning and opening but generally well-retaining head over a misty mahogany brown beer with deep amber glow. Aroma of caramel sauce, brown soap, strong banana, furniture wax, brown honey indeed, hazelnut purée, rum-soaked raisins, candied dates, hints of clove, basil, liquorice, pear, lightly toasted brown bread, wood glue. Fruity onset, sweet with clear candi sugariness, treacle-like almost, further hints of glazed apples and pears and candied figs, moderate carbonation but still a tad on the stingy side for the style; slick but full, thoroughly caramelly maltiness, sweet with slight nutty and toasty accents but also feeling quite wax- or glue-like, ending with a retronasal floweriness probably coming from the honey. Some toasty malt bitterness lingers in the end, reinforced with herbal and (very) faintly citrusy hop bitterness and warming, but not overly astringent, rum-like alcohol; candied and dried fruit notes continue too, but that soapy aspects also remains quite strong. The difference with the regular La Trappe Quadrupel remains altogether subtle, though the honey does add a certain character. La Trappe has long been the most 'commercial' trappist brewery and BrewDog has descended into large-scale audience-pleasing years ago, so this cooperation is perhaps a bit less unlikely than it may seem. Anyway: some years of ageing may reduce the sweetness and add a layer of 'maderisation' which may greatly improve this beer, as it does in the oak aged versions of La Trappe Quadrupel, so I got another bottle for that purpose too. Conclusion: very much La Trappe, but I do not quite 'feel' the old BrewDog vibe here - making for a beer that is more bland and simplistic than the hype surrounding it would suggest. Not as good as expected for me, I'm afraid.