330 ml bottle. Pours a dark brown with moderate head. Aromas of dark fruit, sweet red wine/Madeira, toasted malts, mineral water and a bit of candi sugar. Flavors of dry woody port, dry caramel, toasted malts, and raisins. Super dry. A bit boozy but otherwise quite good.

330 ml bottle. Pours a dark brown with full fizzy tan head that settles qucikly. Aromas of candi sugar, toasted malts, raisins, and dry caramel. Flavors follow same with emphasis on malts and the dry side of candi sugar. A good Quad.

This FoxTown project seems to have really taken off since their first tripel a couple of years ago, since this is only one of several barrel aged variants of their quad, this time on madera barrels - always an interesting premise. Bottle from Stacks in Sint-Andries. Thick and frothy, pale beige, dense, dot-lacing head over a hazy dark chocolate brown robe with burgundy glow. Aroma of caramel candy, brown bread, freshly cut green beans (oddly), indeed fortified wine (madera for sure but also port and sweet sherry), plum jam, raisins, brown sugar, dried fig, some oak (but not very pronounced). Sweet onset with slight sourish edge, some cooked apple, dried prunes and raisins, quite dense, more or less fizzy carb, hint of banana underway; fluffy, full mouthfeel, toffeeish malts with brown-sugary sweetness at the edges and (dried) dark fruits continuing, brown bread, touch blackberry coulis when the madera comes in, adding a vinous, softly sourish touch and picking up speed as it goes along, its flavours becoming more outspoken but remaining quite well 'integrated' in the beer, sweet and oaky but also adding a weird green vegetable aspect (raw green beans) and eventually quite some warming, clearly fortified wine-like alcohol, over a dosage of herbal, softly bittering hops. Somewhat odd due to that unexpected 'greenness', but vividly madera-like for sure and generally speaking, a well-measured, 'honest' and meritorious concoction. Very decent, motivating to start following these guys more closely and certainly suitable for more extended cellaring.

2/XI/24 - 33cl bottle @ home, BB: III/2027, lot: C2023/02 (2024-1174) Thanks to Alengrin for sharing the bottle!

Pretty clear dark brown to purple brown beer, big creamy beige head, unstable, falls down quickly, non adhesive. Aroma: earthy, sourish, a little malty, gentle roast, some green coffee, weird, funky, infected, a bit floral. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: sourish, pretty roasted, bitter, earthy, more acidic, chemical, a bit medicinal, weird, oxidized. Aftertaste: sourish, dirty touch, more oxidation, funky, lots of alcohol, meh, don’t like it very much.

2023 Ed. Small, rather resistant white head, bit fluffy, over pale golden hazy beer with fine pearling. Bit soapy nose, lime, paradise seed, kümmel. Immediate sourish onset, itself immediately followed by spicy flavour - again as paradise seed, black cumin etc., limerind, and whisky in the background. Quite carbonated feel; slick, very faint alcoholwarmth. It's complex, yes. It's neat, cared for, yes. But it remains a "brut beer", something pretending that it isn't, and more boring even than what it wants to emulate. Txs to Stef!

Bottle at home shared with Laura. Brownish color, small off-white head. Aroma and flavor are malts, sweetish, liquor / booze, plums and raisins. Alright.

Bottle at home. Opaque almost black color, virtually no head. Aroma is malts, a mix of imperial stout with boozy quadrupel / strong ale. Flavor is malts, booze / liquor, wood, tart. Hmm okay, but not great imo.