The Bruery 10 Lords-A-Leaping

10 Lords-A-Leaping

 

The Bruery in Placentia, California, United States 🇺🇸

  Belgian Style - Quadrupel / Dark Strong Series
Score
7.17
ABV: 10.8% IBU: - Ticks: 61
Dark Imperial Wit Ale brewed with Spices

Wassail is known for warmth and spices. Our rendition goes leaps and bounds beyond a traditional winter warmer, drawing inspiration from the dark, spiced ales from Belgium and our love for experimental brewing in SoCal. This dark imperial wit ale features spices to complement the spiced notes imparted from the yeast and prance upon the rich, dark fruited character of the specialty malts.
 

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8
Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Typically I am not enthusiastic about spices in a dark Belgian ale but I look forward to see what The Bruery does with this one. 12.7 oz bottle out of the 2024 edition of 12 Days of Christmas acquired direct from the brewery. The pour is a dark amber-brown body finished by a partial cover of silver-tan foam. A smell gives me plenty of ripe dark fruit, yeast and a touch of spiciness of some kind. I take a drink. Well, this is different but not bad. Dark plums, black raisins, malt and then I am guessing cardamom providing an unusual floral and mint effect to the brew. Curious, not exactly my thing but an appreciated sampling. Tasty in any case.

Tried from Bottle on 30 Nov 2025 at 00:58


7.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

bottled. pours a deep dark. spicy wit, fruit, raisins. a lot going on but really well done.

Tried from Bottle on 20 May 2025 at 01:55


8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

From tap at BeerTemple, Amsterdam. Aroma is spicy yeast with dark malt, caramel, chocolate, spices, nutmeg, coriander, clove. Sweet and light bitter flavour, body is medium to full. Very tasty yeasty spicy Belgian Strong, spicy in a good way.

Tried from Draft on 07 Feb 2025 at 11:58


9

Do you like mint? I am mint. Soooo good.

Tried from Draft on 13 Dec 2024 at 18:46


7

Sweet, boozy, christmas spices, malty, smooth. Nice.

Tried from Bottle on 19 Jan 2024 at 15:40


7.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Aus der Flasche (bottled 10.03.2017) im 2022-04 getrunken. Die dunkle Imperial Wit mit Gewürzengebraut bringt ein schönes Weihnachtsarom ins Glas. Von den Aromen der Nase würde man ein Malz-Monster am Gaumen erwarten, doch ist bleibt ein immer noch ein relativ leichtes Witbier. Die Idee ein besonderes Weihnachtsbier hier zu kreieren ist den Brauern sehr gut gelungen.

Tried from Bottle on 03 May 2022 at 18:22


7.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5

Bottle at Salon Piva 04/2022. Malty aroma and taste, orange, spices, light to medium bitter and sweet. Medium body, malty spicy bitter sweet finish. Ok.

Tried from Bottle on 21 Apr 2022 at 19:32


7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle. Pours clear mahogany, small tan head, good lacing. Aroma is a touch smoky, dark roast, baking cocoa, Belgian spice, coriander, anise, ginger. Flavor is medium sweet, light bitter. Medium body. A bit hot, but otherwise enjoyable. Interesting.

Tried from Bottle on 18 Aug 2020 at 00:27


7

Tried on 22 Jul 2020 at 19:10


7.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle 750ml @ My parent's place
Pours dark brown with a beige head. Aroma has notes of malt, caramel, alcohol, spices and licorice. Taste is medium to heavy sweet and light bitter with a long warm, malt,caramel, christmas spices and licorice finish. Body is full, texture is oily, carbonation is soft.

Tried from Bottle on 18 Jul 2020 at 22:47