Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
On tap at the Alibi Room, pours a murky dark amber orange with a small beige head. Aroma brings out notes of lacto and tart cranberries - not getting any of the dry hopping. Flavour is not very pleasant, with notes of blue cheese, lacto and light vinegar. Moderate tartness and subtle cranberry presence, but it's mostly lost under the blue cheese and lacto. Quite poor.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
On tap at St. Augustine's, pours a clear pale blonde with a large white head. Aroma brings out metalli notes, dry biscuity malt and rather abrasive hopping. Flavour is along the same lines, with a bone dry biscuity malt backbone paving way for bone dry hopping and a slight metallic tinge. Certainly brewed to style, but without much character. Clean enough and drinkable, but pretty boring.
mcberko (47797) reviewed Blonde from Red Collar Brewing Company 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
On tap at St. Augustine's, pours a fairly clear blonde with a small white head. Aroma is very dry, with Belgian yeast and biscuity malt, also a touch of cardboard. Flavour is along the same lines, with a very clean palate of dry crackery malt and subtle Belgian yeast. No notes of cardboard in the flavour. Dry finish that is balanced and refreshing. Very nice blonde.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
650 ml bottle. Pours a clear dark brown with no head. Aromas of dark caramel, cherries and alcohol. Flavors of dark nutty caramel, dark raisins, and brown sugar, with quite a bit of alcohol. Nice base if alcohol was checked. Leans towards a barleywine
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Draught at St. Augustine’s, Vancouver
Hazy golden color, very small head. Very light aroma of bread; I wonder if it would show more, from a different glass, bus as is it’s too mild. The mouthfeel is light but not too weak, dry; the malt flavor is not impressive, but at least there are some cereals and a biscuity character; good bitterness level, maybe a light herbaceous touch, but the hops don’t provide the expected quality. Some chicory-like bitterness, unwanted.
Clean beer, but misses the point, not being able to strike either with the malt or the hop.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
Cask at St. Augustine’s, Vancouver; 414 ml
Dark brown color, almost black, with small beige head. Bold beer, the smoothness and roundness is highlighted by the cask conditioning; moderately sweet, with an accent on caramel; but there is a sharp burnt feeling, like coffee, that is less than pleasant. Very similar to the regular Double Dubbel. I’d like to try this strong beer without the coffee.
fiulijn (28383) reviewed Black Dog Quad from Red Collar Brewing Company 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle from Brewery Creek, Vancouver
Dark brown color, no head at all. Caramel aroma, with a soapy touch that is sooo North American.Full bodied; nice caramel and malt flavor, they used a very fruity yeast, candi sugar, too much alcohol presence, just the minimal required bitterness, a bit nutty.
Nice, but it’s an American strong beer, not much Belgium here.
Ferris (26026) reviewed Black Dog Quad from Red Collar Brewing Company 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle - Raisin, plum and nice rich dark fruit. Deep brown with a decent with a decent off white head. Some spice, tobacco and dark fruit. Decent.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Waxed bottle poured and split at Matt’s. Thanks Alex. Pours a dark ruby color with a patchy fizz head. Over ripe fruit aroma. Harsh ripe berry fruiy, grape, dark fruit. Maybe brown sugar. This was a weird blend of fruit here, and strong harsh flavor. Rough beer for me. Not my thing.
mcberko (47797) reviewed Black Dog Quad from Red Collar Brewing Company 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
650mL bottle, pours a deep dark mahogany with a small beige head. Aroma brings out dark fruits, caramel, some Belgian yeast and brown sugar. Flavour is fairly hot and harsh, but still quite nice, with dark fruits, caramel, Belgian yeast, brown sugar and alcohol. A little hot, but it's actually well-balanced and true to style. Very solid stuff.