Doxology

Schilling Beer Company in Littleton, New Hampshire, United States 🇺🇸

Belgian Style - Quadrupel / Dark Strong Regular

Score

7.13

ABV: 11.0%

IBU: -

Ticks: 2

Inspired by the legacy of Trappist brewing, Doxology is a complex mahogany-colored beer with a rounded mouthfeel that masks its formidable stature. Layers of figs, plum, and caramelized raisins dominate the flavor spectrum with light warming apparent on the finish. Doxology was crafted using the finest European pilsner malts and candi syrup (traditional to this style), as well as an exceptional monastery yeast strain.

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7.5

nimbleprop (16838) reviewed Doxology from Schilling Beer Company 4 years ago

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

6oz pour is a dark caramel brown with some creamy white head. Nose is huge raisin and prune, malt, candy. Flavor is all those dates, huge figs now, raisins. Finishes full bodied. This is a bit fruity but well done. 8 4 8 3 14

Tried from Can on 19 Jul 2021 at 18:41

8.1

Clarkvv (16760) reviewed Doxology from Schilling Beer Company 9 years ago

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

On draught at BA Belgian Fest, 9/17/16.
Dark mahogany with a slight burgundy tint and lighter tan edges. Light tan head shows moderate to low retention. High clarity to the body.
Pretty straightforward Abt here, with raisin, prune and light hints of chocolate. It’s not one of the caramel-toffee heavy versions, thank God. Rather, there’s a strong vinous acidity that is highly enjoyable, though manifests more in the flavor, of course. The nose has dry toffee, soft Belgian esters (plum, cherry, apple) and very light phenol-alcohol warmth, which is actually quite enjoyable and really balances the malts, keeping it quite "dry" feeling in the nose. No flaw.
The flavor finds more of the acidity and it’s lovely, easily balancing the malt character (toffee, raisin, prune, light chocolate, vanilla) but not going too far as to make the beer tart, or anything like that. Snappy phenols and a light bready-graininess from the malt further produce the image of a very dry rendition, though it never feels astringent. And in fact, the malt texture is comforting and soft with enough sweetness leftover. Quite an elegant and simple, but very, very nicely done version that probably wouldn’t rate highly with the "Big Beer, Big Flavors" Crowd (ie. the beer geek community). My only real complaint is that the carbonation was rather loose. Tightening that up would really make this feel polished and exquisite (though getting a really tight, spritzy carbonation on high abv Belgian beers on draught is extremely difficult, so it’s a minor complaint).

Tried on 01 Oct 2016 at 15:54