Blue Seadragon
HopSaSam in Oudenaarde, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Brewed at/by: De MeesterBelgian Style - Quadrupel / Dark Strong Regular
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Score
7.48
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Gerbeer (8166) reviewed Blue Seadragon from HopSaSam 10 months ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
330 ml bottle. Pours a dark reddish brown with no head. Aromas of fruity calvados, raisins, dull orange, caramel, and toasted malts. Flavors follow same with nice fruity calvados notes and a bit of orange peel.
Alengrin (11561) reviewed Blue Seadragon from HopSaSam 10 months ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Caldavos barrel aged quadrupel by HopSaSam, a brewery I hold in high esteem; named after a type of sea slug, I reckon. Thickly moussey, shred-lacing, pale yellowish beige, slowly thinning and opening head on a hazy deep chestnut brown robe with ochre-ish edges. Aroma of brown sugar, brown bread dough, baked banana, a whiff of ‘ethereally’ alcoholic calvados (but not very recognisable as such – could be any kind of ‘eau de vie’), wet caramel, fermenting pear, stewed plum, ‘speculoos’, clove, coriander seed, cooked beetroot, dark honey, damp earth, some wet wood but not as prominent as usual for barrel ageing. Sweet onset, that is to say: brown-sugary as in many quads, with fruity side notes of pear, plum and vague banana, softishly carbonated with supple, somewhat creamy mouthfeel, yet thinned a bit by alcohol. Brown-bready and sweetish-caramelly core with a light ‘Koetjesreep’ note to it somewhere, spiced phenolically with clove but I also seem to get some coriander and a vague echo of ‘speculooskruiden’, though not nearly as outspoken as in the average traditional Belgian Christmas beer (which this one is not, anyway). A dash of herbal hops provides gentle end bitterness, as do some subtle tannins from the wood and far less subtle booze from the calvados, now including that typical apple-ish accent – but also becoming a bit wry on the root of the tongue. Lovely caramelly and somewhat chocolatey, pure maltiness lingers, proving that the base beer is a high level quad, but calvados is probably less suitable for barrel ageing than bourbon or brandy – I get the idea of combining calvados with quadrupel, but this combo has failed to truly impress me so far, as most calvados B.A. quads seem to be on the thin, boozy and astringent side. This one is no exception to that, but I hasten to add that seen as a whole, it is, by all means, a very pleasant and enjoyable, ‘wintery’, comforting ale.
Rubin77 (10150) reviewed Blue Seadragon from HopSaSam 10 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
33cl bottle from Struise Beershop Woesten e-shop.
F: no real.
C: dark brown, hazy.
A: malty, some apples, dark malts, dark berries, woody, vanilla, dried fruits.
T: full malty base, woody, red apples, chocolate, vanilla, dried fruits, some cookies, bit caramel, nice balanced bitterness yet bit more on the sweet side, very nice, fully enjoyed.
Bierridder (4160) ticked Blue Seadragon from HopSaSam 1 year ago
jefverstraete (7493) reviewed Blue Seadragon from HopSaSam 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
@ Kwatrechts bierfestival. Dark brown colour, beige foam. Nose of dried fruit, raisins, plums along with vanilla sweetness, calvados. Sweet and warming.