7

#quadrupel --- Beer merged from original tick of 1818 (2022) on 26 Jan 2023 at 10:45 --- Beer merged from original tick of 1818 (2016) on 30 Aug 2017 at 20:00 - Score: 7. Original review text: Iets te veel suiker, verder prima --- Beer merged from original tick of 1818 (2012) on 26 Apr 2017 at 22:25 - Score: 8

7.1

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

This beer confirms that Drenthe actually exists... The last of the Dutch Provinces to offer a beer for me. Bottle at home, dark almost black beer, small head. Aroma is malt, fruit, dark fruit, alcohol, light raisins, black currants, hint of liquorice. Taste is the same, black currants, sweet, hint of bitterness that gets more pronounced at the end, very nice.

6.5

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Bottle brought back from the brewery - thanks, mom & dad! Pours hazy dark brown with a quickly thinning, frothy, tan head. Aroma of malt, yeast, wort, burnt caramel, candied banana & plum, red apple. Taste is medium malty sweet, lots of wort, yeast, caramel & burnt sugar, some candied fruit, an edge of toas & bitterish green tea. Malty finish, slightly herbal hoppy, lingering candied fruit & sugar, sweet yeast, warming liqueur-like alcohol. Medium body, oily-syrupy texture, fizzy carbonation. Expected more judging by the ratings here.. bad batch maybe? Would try again, though.

8

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

Bottle. Color: Dark murky brown, beige head. Aroma: Caramel, dark fruit, boozy, herbal. Taste: Dark malt and some roasted malt, sugary, molasses, caramel, dark fruit. Medium sweet and moderate to medium hopbitter. Hints of nuts and blueberry. Boozy notes. Bittery palate at finish. Light herbal hints. Sirupy. Over medium to full body, just below average carbonation. Very nice one, although a bit on the sweet side.

6.8

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

Bottle. Murky dark brown color. Malt and dried plums in the aroma. Malty sweetish alcoholic flavor with dried plums, pear, earthy grassy hops and a hint of anis. Black berries in the finish, Nice one.

7

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

0.75 l bottle at Pivoteka, Zagreb. Closing of the Pivoteka. Cheers and thanks Vran. Dark. Bready. Peppery. Toasty. Cardboard. Sweet. Sticky. Alcohol hidden. Medium body. Strong.

7

Karmel, ciemne owoce, chleb, miod, kawa, lukrecja, sporo lukrecji, slodki, mile cialo. Gorzkie i duzo wytrawniejsze posmaki. Ciut pali usto

7.9

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Quad from this brewery in Drenthe, bought at a Mitra shop in Lelystad. Medium thick, moussy, pale greyish beige head leaving dots of lacing and some thin veils in the middle, over a translucent dark bronze to mahogany brown beer with ochre edges. Rich bouquet of cocoa, toffee, candied figs, yellow Sultana raisins, overripe pear, ripe blue Président plum, medlar even, caramel syrup, dried banana, blueberries, brown rum, beef stock, bayleaf, old dried thyme, wet brown leather, stewed horse meat ’carbonades’, blackcurrant juice, slowly stewed cranberries, coffee with a lot of cream, vanilla pudding, Eiswein, brown bread crumbs, very old sherry hint (vintage bottle of 1+ year old - onsetting oxidation, in other words). Candied sweet onset, hinting at marmelade, blueberry jam and candied figs with a deeply situated blueberry sourishness, soft spicy notes and beef stock-like umami as well, in a medium yet subtly tingling carbonated environment, just about right for this style; rich caramelly malt sweetness ensues, very (milk) chocolatey in the middle, acquiring a bitterish toasted edge quite rapidly but firmly maintaining this deeply situated chocolatey and very toffeeish sweetness. Very malty beer by all standards, finishing a bit more dry due to herbal, somewhat spicy hop pungency and a warming, very lightly astringent, rum-like alcohol glow. The alcohol and the bittersweet - yet more sweet than bitter - flavors linger for quite a while; at the same time, some retronasal, bit rusty but still very elegant, old sherry-like oxidation remains as well. I haven’t had any previous experiences with this brewing company so I cannot compare with the quality standard of their other beers but this to me is a very accomplished quadrupel: thick enough, complex, very pleasantly malt and sugar sweet, with a warming alcoholic finish but adding umami layers of flavor which make it quite an individual beer departing from the old sweet Belgian blue Chimay, Rochefort 10 or indeed ’Westy’ 12 standard - in fact almost turning it into a dark barleywine, if that concept makes any sense at all. The bottle fits this time of the year perfectly and the age (I estimate about 1.5 years) is perfect for this type of beers, already adding a sherry-ish maderisation which, in this case, only adds complexity to a basically relatively ’simple’ beer - for this style, that is. I thoroughly enjoyed this one at this age - if this is the quality standard this brewery achieves, I’m very curious about the rest of their range. Pleasant surprise.

6.4

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

How: Bottle.
Where: Tasting at omhper 2016-06-18.
Appearance: Dark brown colour with a minimal tan head.
Aroma: Dried fruit, malt, caramel, raisin.
Body: Medium body and carbonation.
Flavour: Dried fruit, malt, raisin.