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 - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
14.05.2018, 0,375l bottle shared with a college @ hotel room in Sandane:
Nice fizzy-creamy mediumlasting head. Aroma is slightly dry sour-ish boozy, oak, bourbon, candi sugar, fruit stones, almonds, caramel malts, vanilla, alcohol, minerals, butterscotch. Taste is slightly sweet sour-ish boozy, bourbon, weeds, oak, caramel malts, bark, fruit stones, hay, butterscotch, vanilla, almonds, dried fruits, toast, minerals. Medium bitterness, slightly dry sour-ish boozy mouthfeel. Fair enough.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle @ home. Dark amber to brown colour with a small sized beige head. Smells oak, wood, sweet, herbs, candy cane, raisins, molasses, some alcohol. There's a lot going on. Tastes sweet, vanilla, oak, candy, whisky, wood, some herbs. Very smooth, amazing whisky flavor. Full body, soft carbo. Love how smooth but full this one is.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle. Aroma of strong bourbon vanilla, caramel fudge, malt, raisin and figs. Taste of soft caramel fudge, bourbon, vanillla, oak, raisin, malt, figs and a sweet bourbony finish. Seems like a Jim beam ba. Nice one.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 9
Fles thuis geprobeerd met LiekevdV. Het is een helder bruin bier met een dunne beige schuim. Het heeft een moutige bourbon geur. De smaak is vol, Bourbon achtig met tonen karamel en mout.
Een ware smaakexplosie waarbij het hout van het Bourbonvat gededailleerd naar voor komt. Gesofisticeerd. Duur maar de moeite.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
0,375l from bottle courtesy of Sander, big thanks. brown color small off white head. smells ripe fruits, exotic fruits, wood, earthy, peppery, caramel. nice smell. Full body, soft carbonation, slick mouthfeel , smells earthy, ripe fruits, musty, peppery. very nice smell, very good stuff
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle @ home. A bit hazy dak amber color, medium sized white to off-white head that diminishes relatively quickly. Aroma is lightly malts, heavy bourbon. Taste malts, bourbon, sweetish, alcohol. Don't get much more. Maybe some hints of brown candy sugar or caramelised sugars. Probably the latter. But in any case not the best LTQOA batch by a long shot. The long barrel aging (3 years I believe) really makes this one of the few LTQOA versions in which the least traces of the base beer are present. I don't necessarily see that as an instant bad thing, but in this case I do think it's too much. Base beer almost gone, body thinner than normal, complexity hmm not too deep, a bit more alcoholic than I would have liked. No, for me not one of their best but an interesting experiment.