Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Panda at home, thanks to Kenneth, 20/12/2025.
Almost clear amber to chestnut brown with a beige cap that thins to the edge.
Nose is peat, smoked malts, vinous, stewed fruits.
Taste comprises fruit esters, medicinal tones, Laphroaig rasp, spice, dates, toffee, smoked malts, caramel.
Full bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close with a kiss of alcohol.
Solid well balanced peated whisky affair.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Panda at home, thanks to Kenneth, 20/12/2025.
Deep chestnut brown topped with a fast collapsing beige head.
Nose is caramel, vinous tones, boozey hit, stewed fruits, figs, date.
Taste comprises liquid fruit cake, booze, toffee, light spice, herb, dates, prunes.
Medium bodied with bite, fine carbonation, light drying close with a lick'o'booze.
Solid.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Fles 75cl thuis gedeeld. Kruidig, Belgisch gist, steenfruit, maltig, redelijk zoet, honingtonen, banaan, abrikoos, perzik, wat grainy. (19-12-2025).
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8
Smell of sweet malt, raisins, some dried fruit. Hazy brown colour, small beige head. Aroma of sweet malt, booze, some licorice, mämmi, dried fruit. Medium sweet. Oily texture. Soft carbon.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
75cl bottle from el corte ingles, malaga
clear amver, small film light brown head
arom ais dark dried fruits, belgian brune, notes like raisins and figs domiate. solid full bodied non boozy aroma.
flavor has even more raisins, smoked raisins,malts, fruity notes you could get from belgian yeasts, very smoky fruity peely heavily dried raisins.
a bit rough, but interesting and not industrial, at least by the flavor. Clearly tastes heavier than the only 7.4% ABV
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8
7th December 2025
A mild to medium haze on this amber - brown beer, short and short lived bubbly tan head. Airy palate, semi dry, good fine minerally carbonation. Light bodied malts but, a very good creamy and caramel sweetness with nicely integrated touches of oaky vanilla and wood. A light estery sweetness over the bourbon soaked ripe fruits, more caramel and cream on the back end. Good stuff.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8
7th December 2025
A beloved series to me but since Brexit, the vast majority of euro beer shops can't be bothered to send to the UK despite reaping loadsa wonga from me in the years preceding. I'd love to state my feelings on this but Keir Stammers thought police might be knocking on my door in the morning. Its a hazy amber beer, small bubbly tan head. Smooth and fairly dry palate, good superfine minerally carbonation. Light bodied malts, a thin but pleasing creamy sweetness and a fair amount of caramel. Ripe whiskey soaked fruits, rich and fairly rounded, a modest whisky spice. Mild esters. Some pear and for me, someone who largely despises the band aid tastes, this is pitched perfectly. It's just a minor element but adds perfectly to another great BA Quad in this series
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
I still deeply regret the decision La Trappe made - years ago - to reduce the distribution of their Quadrupel Oak Aged series, making it a lot harder (and more expensive) for me to obtain them, because this is the original oak aged quad series after all and it has brought me a lot of joy in the years when it was still relatively easily available. Anyway, thanks to Bart again for sharing this 54th variant, aged on Bordeaux wine barrels. Pale greyish-white, medium thick, opening, membrane-lacing head over an initially clear bronze-brown robe with copper-red glow, misty further on. Aroma of caramel candy, almond, pronounced oak 'vanilla', dried lingonberries, brandy, brown sugar, gingerbread, bubblegum, sugared tea, banana peel. Sweet, rounded onset, candi-sugary but not cloying, banana ester mingled with impressions of blue plum, raisin and candied cherry, this time also with a grape-juicy undertone from the wine barrels; medium carb, full but smooth body. Caramelly and brown-bread-doughy malt core, bubblegummy edges, hints of toffee and almond here and there, evolving into a complex finish with a more vinous character, strongly coloured by woodiness (including that vanillin effect) but also very clearly showing red Bordeaux wine effects, even though the expected grapey and tannic tartness fails to materialise - for better or for worse. Instead, a warming brandy-ish alcohol effect comes in, highlighting the dark maltiness and fruitiness rather than the astringency of red wine. The Bordeaux is there, but somehow in a more smoothened way than I was expecting - but it remains a prime example of its ilk, and it felt really heartwarming to be able to revisit a fine series I have been missing out on for many years now. If only I could catch up with all of them...
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Very good, dense, slowly collapsing if persistent head, fed by fine carbonated clear orange-copper beer. Spicy, bit metallic nose, gassy; fresh malts. Sweet, grainy, malty. Half-dried leaves; faintly almondy - both sweet and bitter almonds. Tastes alcoholic despite its modest ABV. The sweetness comes over as if not fully attenuated. Well-carbonated, very slick; medium to well-bodied. Almost sticky. In the end, not that much different from 'ordinary' La Trappe. Txs to Stef!