Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6

33cl bottle shared with kermis. Thin white head. Very hazy light amber pour. Easy drinking.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle shared with and courtesy of an on-heat platypus on an Artic Den Haag winter’s eve. Hazy dark golden with a small off white head. Aroma of wheat, light toffee, malt, yeast and light fruit. Flavour is moderate sweet and bitter. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

F: huge, off-white, good retention. C: murky amber, hazy with yeasty debris. A: malt, spicy, orange peels, candy sugar, yeast, caramel, floral. T: malt, caramel, peach, floral, candy sugar, hint of orange, herbal, hint of bread, quite sweet but good balanced and tasty, enjoyed, 0,33l bottle from Spar supermarket in Oostende.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Bottle from Wijnegemse Drankenhal. Initially thick and frothy, densely moussy, thinly lacing, off-white head, eventually reduced to a medium sized veil and firm rim over a deep orange-tinged, translucent dark bronze-amber coloured beer, lightly hazy, notably more pale than usual for the style, cloudy with sediment. Wealthy aroma of peach, meringue, brown rum, butterscotch, honey liqueur, candied banana, powder sugar, yellow raisin, marzipan, white chocolate, biscuit, whisky, apricot, sweet dessert wine, apple cake, dry earth, white port wine, ginger, marmelade. Candied sweet onset, honeyish with dried fruit impressions of yellow raisin, banana and candied orange, some soft and ’dim’ redcurrant sourishness on the edges, minerally touches here and there. Quite spritzy carbonation - more so than usual for a quad - coarsens an otherwise slick, vinous, somewhat oily and thick mouthfeel, built from a thoroughly caramelly, slightly biscuity malt sweetness with a lot of residual white candi sugar sweetness on top; dries in the finish due to a subtle toasted accent, spicy and herbal (nearly tea-ish) hop bitterness and, unsurprisingly, quite a lot of heating, peppery, Grand Marnier- or rum-like alcohol, balancing on the edge of astringency but in all not too obtrusive. Alcoholic, very sweet but rich and interesting sipper, decent like most other beers in this range, technically correct and pleasantly aromatic. Quite a lovely beer, but more a (Belgian) barleywine than a true quadrupel in looks and flavor. I assume La Trappe Quadrupel - the first beer to use the term ’quadrupel’, as recently as the early nineties - served as an example here, but I have to admit that I expected something darker and more robust, along the lines of Rochefort 10, blue Chimay or Westy 12. Unexpected but nice surprise, doubtlessly with great ageing potential.

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Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle at Egalite. Lots of maltiness. Chocolate, roasty, coffee. Even light dried fruits and warmth. Seems much stronger in ABV than it actually is. Very good.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5

Bottle at Brasserie L’Egalité, Brussels.Very dark brown color with medium beige head. Coffee, dark chocolate, cocoa beans. Taste, coffee, roasted malt, cocoa beans, hops. Good.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Bottle from Geers. Dark brown colour, beige foam. Sweet nose of caramel, dried fruit, alcohol. Sweet taste, rather thin body but alcohol is noticable. Not bad.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Bottled, at Belgobaren, Stockholm. Clear ruby, rich head. Raisiny nose. Mid dry with medium body and rounded mouthfeel. Woody caramel, some milky tartness. Lingonberry and hay. Low bitterness.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Bottled, at Belgobaren, Stockholm. Hazy mahogany colout, small head. Milky tart lingonberry aroma. Dry with light-medium body and clean, rounded mouthfeel. Bready and tart. Some figs. Mid bitter finish.