19.2 oz. can. Pours a murky, pinkish color, with a bubbly, fleeting head. The aroma is heavy tomato, tabasco, lime, straw, habanero, and brown sugar. Quite savory and spicy. Some salt and light acidity. Light body, with a sticky, hot mouthfeel. I literally recoiled from the glass at first smell, but it goes down okay. The second half was significantly better.

On tap at SAN airport. Pours cloudy golden with a medium sized off-white head, light lacing. Sweet tropical fruit, pineapple, orange. Good

Dark yellow colour with light haze and thin head. This one starts soft and fruity with subtle mango and lime zest. The bitterness builds up to a nice dry finish.

Can at home. Hazy yellow orange color, medium sized white head. Smell and taste malts, hops, decently bitter. Decent body and carbonation. Alright.

Best lekker. Redelijk lafjes, maar de smaak die er is, is prima.

Quadrupel from this craft brewery in San Diego, in its bourbon barrel aged edition; bottle from Bier Bazaar (I think) shared with Craftmember and Johan. Slow gusher, but manageable. Medium thick, pale yellowish beige, quickly opening, dissipating head, misty bronze-brown robe with orangey amber hue. Aroma of caramel sauce, dried plums, ‘boerenjongens’ (liquor-soaked raisins), vanilla, jasmin blossoms, bourbon, Brazil nuts, brown honey, toffee, candied dates. Sweet onset but in a kind of crisp, fruity way and not cloying at all, dates, figs, raisins, softish carb, smooth and bit oily body – feeling lighter than its ABV would suggest so the whole remains ‘dangerously’ drinkable. Caramelly, bit peanutty malts, a tad brown-bready in the end, carrying this candied fruitiness onwards to a noble finish where oaky tannins provide balance against the sweetness, a function also fulfilled by oaky tannins and warming, indeed bourbon- but also somewhat rum-like booze. Honey, something perfumey (violets) and a lot of oaky vanilla fill the retronasal part in a most delightful way. Wonderful American interpretation of a Dutch-style quad (think La Trappe Quadrupel Oak Aged) – the American craft brewers do not often tackle the traditional ale styles from the Low Countries and when they do, rarely even come close to the best in Belgium and Holland, but this one pleasantly surprised me, in being at a comparable level of quality and complexity as the La Trappe Quadrupel Oak Aged series or the Chimay Barriques series. Worth every penny.