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 - 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.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Huge thanks to Erzengel for sharing! Bottle looks simple but really good. Beer in the glass brownish, small head. Heavy malty alcoholic aroma. Starts fine malty-alcoholic. Fine fruity notes of peaches, some apricot, mild sweetness. Warming-malty finish. Wow!
Huge bourbon nose, bourbon warmth throughout. Hints of oaky Belgian vanilla but mostly bourbon, warms up into a bourbon quad syrup. So good.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Tasting @ Koelschtrinker's place. Fantastic smooth woody fruity nose. The beer starts fantastic deep with oak and bourbon and caramel. Fantastic balanced with woody parts and smooth mild woody Bourbon. Great smooth woody malty bourbon aftertaste. Smooth, balanced, fantastic!
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Boozy rum raisin and honey notes. Clearish copper with a decent white head. Boozy and raisin with a long boozy finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Quite phenolic on the nose. Light brown, touch of haze. On the palate, there's a lot brown sugar, soft and sweet. Fairly light body. Touch of wood. Lots of vanilla. I would say it's a 180 on the palate from the aroma. A bit of alcohol in the finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
375mL bottle, pours a deep dark mahogany with a small beige head. Aroma is quite complex, with bourbon barrels, Belgian yeast, and light candied sugar. Flavour is loaded with bourbon and treacly toffee upfront, folllowed by caramel and some dark fruits. Bourbony and sweet, without being cloying. Excellent.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle shared with Koelschtrinker. A slightly hazy amber beer with a small off-white head. Aroma of vanilla, oak, riped strong fruits. Taste of sweet oak chips, wood, caramelish strong malt.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Intensiver, süß malziger Beginn. Holznoten, süß bleibend, unsüffig. Steigende Holznoten, unsüffig, fast künstlich. Vanille, langer Abgang. 10/8/8/8/10/8
Megaowocowe - swiezo, suszono, kandyzowane. Ciut landrynka. Sporo wanilli. Nieco alko (burbonowego alko). B slodkie, syropowe. Figi. Melasa.