Quadrupel - Oak Aged Batch #29
La Trappe Trappist - Abdij O.L.V. Koningshoeven in Berkel-Enschot, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands 🇳🇱
Belgian Style - Quadrupel / Dark Strong Series Out of Production|
Score
7.65
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Type in BATCH
Bourbon 90%
Oak High Toast 5%
Acacia 5%
To achieve the optimal quality of Oak Aged, Quadrupel has matured for three years in Bourbon barrels. This double-oaked bourbon with double maturation in oak creates an even more intensive taste. Furthermore, the flavour of Quadrupel remains well preserved. Quadrupel has a fine-pearled beige head on top of the clear mahogany-brown beer. Quadrupel’s initial scent is the familiar fruitiness and malty aroma with a strong presence of caramel. This is immediately followed by many wood aromas, such as vanilla, almond and also tobacco-like scents. With the first gulp, the bourbon comes across modestly, yet clearly and you taste the fine and even balance between bourbon whiskey and beer. The result is an Oak Aged beer with the richness of American oak aromas, lightly burnt, and followed by warmed alcohol and a soft but clear presence of bitterness. Due as well to the long maturing period, the complexity of this beer is extremely high and new taste associations keep surfacing. Carbonation keeps the taste refreshing in spite of the rather high sweetness and provides a nice tingling in the mouth.
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Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
The 29th edition of this ongoing series of barrel aged trappist quads, for the most part aged on bourbon barrels, with small proportions of toasted oak and acacia wood as well. From a luxury cylinder box, bought from Het Exclusieve Gerstenat. Yellowish off-white, mousy, thinnish, opening head over an intially clear, burgundy-hued dark copper beer, later turning into a misty caramel brown with a 'soup' of dead yeast bits in the end. Aroma of melting caramel candy, lots of old furniture and vanilla-scenting wet oak wood, acacia honey (with the acacia part probably due to autosuggestion), bourbon-soaked raisins, muscovado sugar, banana bread, wax, wood glue, prunes, candied dates, very old tawny port. Sweet onset, ripe pear, candied date, fresh fig and sweet ripe blackberries, some banana, tingling carb but softly so, smooth body, a tad thin perhaps for a beer of this strength and a bit glueish too; some minerality faintly lurks under a brown-bready and caramelly malt sweetness with a layer of brown honey on top, shifting to an increasing woodiness, bringing a lot of vanilla-ish odours retronasally along with obvious tannins. A bourbon booziness, bitter and sweet, warms the ending phase, but is also softened a bit by the sweetness and the woodiness. Hops provide a faint herbal note, echoing from a distance and clearly faded through the years - though the basic beer is not very hoppy to begin with either, of course. Wood, sweet caramel and sweet warming bourbon connect with each other nicely in the end. Another rich, fragrant and hugely satisfying (if perhaps a bit thin) winter warmer in this wonderful series, a series I sincerely miss ever since the monks at Koningshoeven decided to severely limit its distribution - how I wish they would become more widely available again in local drinks stores, like several years ago!
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9
Murky brown, small head, aroma is bourbon, fruit, raisins, malt, sweet, taste is the same, sweet, light bitter, very bourbon, very nice
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
23rd October 2019
Clear reddish amber beer, small pale tan head. Smooth palate, very smooth and slightly soft and with just a touch of dryness, reasonable fine carbonation. Smooth malts, sweetish with a touch of creamy malt. Smooth bourbon, with a little fruity bourbon and a nice light touch of vanilla. The bourbon then shows its teeth with a little warmth and spice. Nice touches of sweet cherry and glacé fruits towards the finish. Light spicy linger. Nice, smooth and tasty and drinking well now but would easily stand some more time.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Corked Bottle. Dark amber color. Chocolate, Caramel, bourbon, oak And vanilla in the aroma. Malty sweet flavor with Lots of bourbon, oak And vanilla. Has matured And softened. Dried fruit And caramel. Carbonation is soft. Has thinned a little. Well balanced, matured And complex beer.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottled. An amber beer with a beige head. The aroma has notes of alcohol, rum, prunes, and wood. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt, caramel, rum, and over ripe fruits, leading to a dry finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle@Jespers - Amber pour with a tiny off white head. Sweet malty with lots of dried fruit, some caramel and fudge, medium body, wooden oak accents, sweet malty finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Sample from 375 ml bottle. Slightly hazy amber golden colour with a thin white head. Sweet aroma with caramel malts, booze, oaked notes, rich fruity notes, over ripe fruits. Taste is sweet. Medium bodied. Sweet finish with fruits and overripe fruits. Ok.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
37.5 cl bottle. Pours hazy orange. Small white head. Aroma is wineous. Sweet, wineous. Wooden. Flat malty. Fruity, wineous. Caramelish and malty finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle at home. Pours deep orange, nose is caramel, coconut, raisin, fudge, taste is sweet, chewy, juicy fruit, oak, toffee, vanilla.