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 - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
750mL bottle courtesy of tom10101. Aroma is fairly spicy with anise, coriander, clove and light pepper. Medium malt character with dark, toasted bread, caramel and toffee. Medium fig, prune and raisin notes. Pours a dark brown with some hazelnut hues and a medium sized, fairly thick, tan head with slightly above average retention. Medium light lacing with medium legs. Flavor has a light sweetness with a moderately strong malt character. Lots of caramel and toffee, light toasted bread and faint chocolate notes. Medium fruit notes of cherry, raisin, fig and prune with some light plum notes. Much lighter spice notes with some clove, coriander and faint anise. Light alcohol spice. Mouthfeel is medium bodied with medium carbonation. Low astringency and surprisingly low alcohol warmth. Overall a pretty enjoyable beer with a really nice malt character. The spice is a bit strong in the aroma but well balanced in the flavor. Nice ester quality. The most surprising thing to me about the beer is how well hidden the alcohol is.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
(bottle) clear reddish amber colour with a tall tan head; aromas of spice, bread; balanced flavour with a neutral finish; tasty
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
23.10.2013, 0,75l bottle sampled @ BBGTC tasting:
Small creamy mediumlasting head. Aroma is slightly sweet and spiced, caramel malts, spices, almond cake, sugar, toffee. Taste is sweet and kind of sour-ish, caramel malts, berries, butterscotch, toffee, flowers, grass, sugar. Medium bitterness. Fair enough, but very interesting though.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8
Brilliant product. Especially after having some of the lesser beers by these guys recently - this one takes it back to what they do best. Amazing. Pours ruby red with great head and lacing. Prune, raisin, some apricot, sweet malt and some florals. Finishes light sweet without being a sugar bomb. Soft carbonation, booze very well hidden. Great balance. Texture is silky smooth. Bottle from Delires du Terroir.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7
I cracked a 2009 version the other day. On the one hand the beer aged nicely in that the body became very rounded, malty, balanced and not very sweet. One the other hand, sarsaparilla notes totally dominated the beer. I don’t know if sarsaparilla root was put into the beer, but it tasted like unsweeted and fairly pleasant Rootbeer. Since I like Rootbeer, I rather enjoyed this beer, but totally over spiced. Perhaps drinking it fresher would be more beneficial, but given the style aging seems appropriate. With a more balanced spice profile this could be fantastic. As is, it is just OK.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
750ml bottle pours a translucent copper brown with some creamy white head. Nose f plum, cherry, candy sugar, tropical fruit, rum, fruit cake. Flavor is malty, candy sugar, cherry, a little grape jelly, tropical fruit, kiwi, light spice, dried apples, raisins. Full, sweet finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
It took me 4 bottles through 1 1/2 year to evaluate this one. Two bottles were tremendous and two were very deceiving. So, I’ll do sort of an average between the four of them. Aroma: A lot of spices; cinnamon, clove, mixed with caramel, sugar cane and candied fruits. Most of the bottles tested had a pretty complex and defined nose except for the last one that was bought a week ago which had aroma disappearing fast and leaving unpleasant meat and earthy notes. Appearance: One of the bottles tested last spring had no head at all. The other ones had an average creamy, moderately lasting head with also average lacing.Color is dark brown with red glints. Taste is very caramel, toffee, ’’crème brulée’’ and maple with spices like pepper, nutmeg and clove. In all cases it would benefit the overall taste that the spices stick out more. Sugar notes are very dominant. In most cases body is medium, texture is oily and carbonation lively except for that bottle bought last spring that was absolutely flat. I was told at the time that there had been a bottling problem with that batch. Not recalling the batch was, to my opinion, a poor corporate decision. The conclusion of all this is that’s a very unstable beer. If you’re lucky, you’ll buy a very good bottle. If not; well, tough luck. For myself, I had 2 good ones and 2 bad ones.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle @ Stephen’s house. Dark reddish maroon appearance with a brown head. Quite spicy, brown sugar, caramel malty, raisin, dark berry, leather aroma. Caramel, toasty, a touch burnt toffee, slightly smoky, spicy yeasty flavor. Fun beer to share- not sure I’d want a bottle to myself.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bouteille 750ml. Couleur brune foncée, mousse dense couleur moka laissant une légère dentelle. Arômes d’épices, de vanille et de fruits confits. Goût d’épices, de sucre brun et de fruits confits, l’alcool est très bien camouflé. Texture moyennement riche et carbonation moyenne-faible.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
2009 edition. Did not seem under pressure, but after taking the cap off, the brew came overflowing. Pours a huge head in the tulip glass with a little dark ruby red colour underneath. Clean and very carbonated. The cap was beige, with tiny bubbles that made it foamy but with extreme retention. At first pour, the nose was rather sour. After breathing a bit, the spices came out. Mostly liquorice (anise) was on top, with hints of mint, nutmeg and cloves. Oily mouthfeel with a little stickiness to it. The taste resembled to the smell. No burning at all, quite smooth, with the liquorice, spices and brown sugars. A pretty interesting Belgian strong ale.