6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Dark gold in color with a two finger head. Aroma is coffee and grains. Taste is also coffee and grains.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Mar 2025
at 05:01
7.6/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Not all that familiar with the brewery, I have had their quadrupel and liked it way more than expected. This evening is their barley wine that carries a large number of ratings. I'll step into that line. 12 oz bottle from Half Time, now opened and going into my Teku glass. I see a thin appearing liquid that is ruddy brown followed by a ring of very light tan, very fine bubbles. The smell is dried fruit, bread and toffee. I lift the glass and am taken aback, the drink is a significant step up from appearance and scent, fuller and deeper than the other two. Red plums, cereal, yellow raisins, hard candy and meadow. I call this a pleasant offering in a beer style I appreciate considerably.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Mar 2025
at 02:06
8.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
deep amber pour, with a huge frothy sticky off white head. HUGE pungent hop aroma, quite skunky, and intense. Big notes of citrus, and pine. The body is thick, and full. Flavour is very hoppy, this is a mega hop bomb. THis is extreme beer. Extremely bitter, the 9% doesn;t show a bit. Excellent DIPA.
Tried
on 28 Feb 2025
at 05:01
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 7
NIce hazy yellow pour, with a small diminishing head. Aroma is ALL corriander, and lemon, and a touch of orange. Flavour is front loaded with corriander, and a sweet breadiness. A little wattery, and a slightly sweet finish.
Tried
on 27 Feb 2025
at 12:11
7.8/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 8.5
Texture 7
Overall 8.5
The 12 oz bottle I have came from Half Time with a stamp saying the beer was bottled on 8/8/24. I have sought out Quad for years after seeing a quadrupel tasting review on the web from 2014. The beers accumulated for that comparison were separated by European and American breweries. Of course Quad was put in the American group and unfortunately it was bottom rated meaning not good things in comparison to domestic beers and the overseas quadrupels also. Do I not want to rate this one now? Hell no, let's give it a shot. I see the label is largely unchanged from earlier pics and the ABV has stayed the same. All this is fine by me, I am here to sample a quadrupel new to me. I have a New Belgium globe glass in place to receive the pour and I tilt the bottle. The appearance is an amber colored body completed by a bare cover of silvery tan foam meaning it goes more the way of a La Trappe quad than a Trappistes Rochefort. Who cares, the tent covering quadrupels is big. The scent is strong, I get plenty of purple fruit, yeast and alcohol. The taste now, well, I am not put off at all. Sweet dark plums, black raisins, grain, malt, some yeasty esters, cherries, candi sugar and an earthiness. Sweet somewhat but not badly so. I am liking this way more than I expected. I appreciate my quads and this one is better than many.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Feb 2025
at 00:34
4.5/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 4
Texture 1
Overall 3
Got this old bottle at beer world of largo. Smells like boozy chocolate. Looks sorta like dark mud cloudy brown. Date code 122157181401E, whatever that means. However, since it was brewed around 2018, I think this is when it was bottled. There was no head out of the bottle and no visual sign of carbonation. Not even a pressure release when I removed the lid. This is confirmed on the palate, completely oily and flat. Looking in the bottle after I poured it into a glass, there is all kinds of sludge in there, some gunk came into my glass. First flavor impact is big alky laced coffee, reminds me of the whisky coffee my italian grampa used to drink when watching monochrome gunsmoke, after a hard day at the proprietorship. He'd drop 2 or 3 shots of some kind of whiskey into a big black cup of coffee my grandma used to brew. Now I'm possibly getting a little chocolate in there, but I don't think so. This is simply a totally flat alky coffee bomb that has not gained any manners in aging. They say high alky beers get better with age, and I have never tasted a fresh sample of this, but it is quite rude. Nothing like the impy stouts that gracefully age into a desirable delectable sherry. I'm just happy the calming influence of the alcohol content is relaxing me a little and making this a little easier to accommodate. Yea, wish I had a fresh sample to compare this to. Fortunately some of the dregs that got into my throat at the end of the glass did not cause any gag reflex. There, you have it.
Tried
from
Beerworld of Largo
on 12 Feb 2025
at 18:17
7/10
Tried
on 05 Jan 2025
at 14:56
8/10
Tried
from Draft
on 13 Dec 2024
at 18:49
8/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Dec 2024
at 18:47
6/10
Eastbound and down ... something something something.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Dec 2024
at 18:46