I have a 33 cl bottle of Oriel Oban Quadrupel acquired from a Dutch seller in a purchase made difficult by shipping. All's well that ends well. Tonight I will use my Teku glass for the sampling, seems to be right this go around. The bottle is attractive with its gray wax but not so much of it to make opening difficult. The view is a dark amber-brown liquid and essentially no head. I take a smell to get mostly a scotch booziness and a small bit of dark fruit. The taste is a bit out of the normal but we are dealing with scotch barrels here. Figs, peat, charred oak, scotch whiskey, dark bread, earth and leather. Very little carbonation results in a less than stellar mouthfeel. I call this a challenging beer at best but will gladly sample a quad in about any direction the brewery wants to go with it.