Quadrupel
Dikke Jan in Desselgem, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Quadrupel / Dark Strong Regular|
Score
6.88
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Icedwarf (4896) reviewed Quadrupel from Dikke Jan 3 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Donkerbruin bier met schuim. Smaak is bitterzoet, warm en krachtig met iets van koffie, wat kandij en een beetje fruit. Erg goed.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Quadrupel from Dikke Jan 3 years ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
To my knowledge at least, the latest addition to the Dikke Jan range of stereotypical 20th-century style Belgian ales from Waregem in West-Flanders; bottle from the shop at the Deca brewery, where this range is physically produced. Pale greyish beige, moussy, shred-lacing, gradually opening head, initially clear caramel brown robe with vermillion glow, misty with sediment. Aroma of hard caramel, banana, bubblegum, burnt toast, young ‘jenever’, clove, brown bread dough, thyme, fermenting pear juice, nutmeg, hint of wood glue. Sweet onset, baked banana and old raisins, some pear, fizzy carb but full and pleasantly smooth, soft mouthfeel; caramelly and brown-bready malts with light toasty bitterish edge, further bittered by a dash of herbal hops and warming, ‘jenever’-like alcohol – all ‘spiced’ by strong phenols, clove-like initially, but becoming annoyingly solventy in the end as well. I guess this beer needed a bit more time to mature and then who knows, the solvent effects may be gone; in its basic make-up, this is not a badly structured quad, but I have to admit that – having ‘grown up’ with the great trappist classics in the genre – the toasty bitter aspect is unnecessary for me and I miss some extra dark fruit sweetness.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Quadrupel from Dikke Jan 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5
1/VIII/22 - 33cl bottle from Deca breweryshop (Woesten), shared @ France Holiday, BB: 8/II/27 (2022-962)
Pretty cloudy purple to brown beer, small creamy beige head, stable, non adhesive. Aroma: lots of ripe banana, some bubble gum, very malty, grains, caramel, some chocolate, more banana. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: lots and lots of alcohol, more alcohol, not much else going on here… after a while I’m getting a soft roast, a little malty touch and some bitterness. Aftertaste: a bit yeasty, dry, hoppy, lots of alcohol burn, some caramel, soft acidity, decent!