Dominus Vobiscum Hibernus
Microbrasserie Charlevoix in Baie-Saint-Paul, Quebec, Canada 🇨🇦
Belgian Style - Quadrupel / Dark Strong Winter|
Score
7.44
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Appearance - 5 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 18
I am not always the biggest fan of Belgian Ales, but this is an imperial that is as good as advertised in central Canada. A nice frothy head on dark red-brown hue body. The nose offers spices and Belgian yeast. The taste is a lovely balance of cinnamon-led spice, berries, crisp apples. soft caramel sweetness and in-balance Belgian yeast. Glad I finally tried this one!
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Rating 1700!
Bottle thanks ti fred82! Thank you!
Dark brown pour, huge fluffy white head.
Aroma: spices! Lots of them! Nutmeg, cinnamon, cardamon, cloves, and some wonderful brown sugar/bready bread puding malts.
Flavor: quite sweet, lots of bread, brown sugar and a boat load of complex spices.
Very complex and outstanding beer!
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottled (backlog). Rubyish brown colour with a mediumsized beige head, that leaves some lace. Aroma is sweet malts, nuts, some spices, yeast and also a wee bit of ripe fruits and alcohol. Flavour is sweet malts, alcohol, some yeast, spices and dried fruits with mild nutty and some burnt sugary notes.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9.5
0.75l bottle. Dark ruby body, lacing off-white head. Aroma of orange zest, coriander, raisins, toast and grapes. Taste of orange, dark sugar, grapes, plums and lemon zest. It’s interesting that every sip is a bit different for me. Truly awesome and very special beer.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
750mL bottle, very generous extra from JulienHuxley. Can’t quite make out the date, as it’s badly smudged, but it’s sometime in 2015, I believe. Drunk 6/9/16.
Massive, overflowing, light beige head that is very well-retained, tops a ruby-tinged mahogany/beige body with good clarity.
Brown sugar, brown bread, hazelnuts, vanilla, clove, black pepper, honey, the list goes on, as it should for a Belgian Strong ale, which showcases both specialty malt and yeast (as well as some spice here). It all works in a pretty harmonious balance, the more "dry" phenols and spices winning out, but never out-of-balance. Tons of fruitiness (red fruits) is highly enjoyable and bright and there’s no sign of booze or any astringency. The esters are clean and the aroma is just all-around well-executed.
Rich honey, brown bread and light cinnamon all combine with a strong sense of balance. Dries out considerably on the end with light fruitiness, some earthy, crunchy cereal-like notes and light hints of vanilla. Maybe just a bit more clove-like character than I’d like, overall, but that’s really the only complaint here. The carbonation and malty texture are both perfect as are the classy esters. Even the spice, which is moderately apparent, is a welcome complexity and blends in/matches with the phenols and malts. No alcohol either. Great balance.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle shared @ Beerbecue by Joes. Hazy reddish to red-brown color, average sized off-white to beige head. Smell and taste malts, sweetish initially, quite herbal and spicy, sweet. Decent body and carbonation.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
Bottle @ beerbecue. Brown colour with a medium sized off-white head. Smells mustard, mexicano, meat, all kinds of weird stuff. Tastes herbs, coriander, sweet. Puke aftertaste. Medium body, soft carbo.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9
reddish brown colour, huge beige-ish head; aroma of driied fruits, chocolate notes, some banana, grape and, surprisingly, coke (or kola nut); taste of intensive dried fruitiness, banana and coke again as well as some chocolate, celery and herbs; great Belgian strong ale!
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
100 ml sample. Thanks, bunget! Clear red-brown. Aroma has malt sweetness spicy roots or vegetables (carrots?). Taste: malt sweetness, vegetable spice, warming alcohol. Ok, but bizarre. (backlog 17-JAN-2016)
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle shared by Julien, medium sample. Dark brown color, medium head. Aroma of cookie, biscuit, spicy yeast, slight peppery, hint of roast, some red fruit. Soft sweet in taste, dry and spicy, bit chewy. Wonderfully balanced. Like one of the great Belgian examples, but with a dash of North American biscuit and cookie. Great beer.