33cl bottle (9 month bourbon barrel aged) from Struise Beershop Woesten e-shop as my beer #3666 from Belgium. F: medium, tanned, good retention. C: dark, opaque. A: dried fruits, caramel, bourbon, woody, vanilla. T: full malty base, dried fruits, woody, vanilla, caramel, bourbon, bit nutty, decent bitterness, soft carbonation, dry on the palate, bit raw warming alcohol yet beside this quite tasty beer, enjoyable.

Thick amberish cream head over deep dark brown beer, adhesive foam. Sweet nose. Again one with diary aroma, sweetened milk, dark malts, raisins. Woody, dry-ish flavour. Lots of liquorice. Faint mushrooms, leather, earthy, but again mixed with sweet diary. Well-carbonated, quite viscous-creamy texture. Alcoholwarmth. Nothing wrong - but once again I get the sweet-had-before impression. And for a Bourbon barrel aged, there's preciously little vanilla and young oak. Maybe not a bad thing, too... Txs to Stef!

330mL bottle, pours a deep dark amber-tinged brown with a small beige head. Aroma brings out dark dried fruits, gentle Belgian yeast, brown sugar, and a touch of toffee. Flavour has plenty of bourbon barrels, a nice expression of Belgian yeast, booze, toffee, and plenty of brown sugar. Really nice barrel presence, though the quad character is less elegant than some of the better Belgian quads, and the residual sweetness is rather high. Carbonation is assertive though -- appropriate for the style -- which masks some of the sugar, but it's still a bit too sweet. Good but not an elite quad.

Bourbon barrel aged quad (the “douze” doubtlessly referring to Westvleteren 12) by De Meester in West-Flanders, shared with Craftmember. Membrane-lacing, yellowish pale beige, moussy, quite dense head of a barrel-aged strong ale; misty deep and dark burgundy-brown robe with wine red glow, more cloudy with sediment. Aroma of raisins, caramel, ‘boerenjongens’, dates, vanilla, clear bourbon linked to said vanilla as well as oak wood (old furniture), dried apricots, dried thyme, dry earth, tawny port of lesser quality, old brown bread. Sweet onset with balancing sourish edge, raisin, dried fig, softish carb, full and rounded body – with slight metallic edges for some reason; caramelly, walnutty and brown-bready maltiness with a bitterish toasty edge coinciding with woody tannins and eventually, earthy hops, phenolic spiciness (clove), lingering candi-sugary sweetness and bourbon booziness – the latter being just a tad too astringent for my liking. Ambitious but short of true greatness and on the crude side, as usual with this brewery, which nevertheless managed to pleasantly surprise me on a few occasions.

13th September 2022
Hazy deep amber brown beer, small pale tan head. Esters on the nose. Palate starts smooth but develops a good fine minerally crispness. Smooth malts, a light creamy sweetness, good ripe caramel and a little toffee. Ripe fruits, prune and fig into some spicy over ripe plummy fruits and some more estery fruits. Light semi dry finish. A bit estery for a barleywine as in very estery, but somehow, it kinda works here. Like someone made a barleywine from a Quad. Dunno! But it's tasty and drinkable. Little brandy in there.

Dark brown colour with lasting thin head. Full on malt sweetness. Nice body too. The bareel gives a subtle dryness and just a touch of vanilla.

Bottle from Beerbox.be. Hazy dark brown, stable, frothy, tan head. Aroma of red & green apple, raisin, pear, fig jam, wet wood, vanilla, peanut, bourbon. Taste has sweet red apple, pear & fig over caramelly maltiness, bit syrupy & phenolic. Herbal hoppy finish with dried fruit, wood, vanilla effect from that, and warming bourbon alcohol. Medium to full body, oily texture, average carbonation. Pleasant bourbon effect, but not necessarily better than the base beer.