Abbey Quad
Howe Sound Brewing in Squamish, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦
Belgian Style - Quadrupel / Dark Strong Regular|
Score
6.74
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fiulijn (28382) reviewed Abbey Quad from Howe Sound Brewing 3 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Can from The Gull, North Vancouver, canned Nov 2021, 1 year old
Amber colour, maybe some red shades, it's quite clean and bright. It's full of esters, very perfumey, more North American than Belgian, with some alcohol smell too, but it's not bad. Good body strength, it's sweet, with notes of caramel, toasted marshmallow, candi sugar, oak, and light smoke, the alcohol is not too evident; the bitterness is balanced, for the style.
It's good, and a good value at this price.
mcberko (47456) reviewed Abbey Quad from Howe Sound Brewing 3 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
473mL can, pours an opaque, rusted dark mahogany brown with a small beige head. Aroma brings out lots of dark dried fruits, especially figs and dates, with gentle estery notes, and some bready toffee. Flavour is somewhat estery, quite boozy, and moderately sweet, with lots of dark dried fruits, bready toffee, alcohol, and some estery notes. Doesn't taste anywhere near an authentic quad, but there's decent cohesion and yeast expression here. Decent attempt but it's far convincing as an authentic Belgian quad. Good.
Gerbeer (8214) reviewed Abbey Quad from Howe Sound Brewing 3 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
473 ml can. Pours a mahogany color with light head. Aromas of subtle candi sugar, subtle Belgian yeast and bready malts. Subtle continues into the flavor; a bit more sugar and lots of bready malts with a bit of metallics. Base seems good for a quad but overall it needs to be ratcheted up a bit IMHO.
Oakes (33493) reviewed Abbey Quad from Howe Sound Brewing 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Pale brown with a dull haze to it. Thin head. Aroma doesn’t seem to bring much. On the palate it’s got some sticky malts, mellow dark sugars, little bit of fruitiness. Relatively thin for the style. Ok effort but you can tell this isn’t a Belgian specialist brewery.