8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

750ml bottle from Brewers Haven. Birthday gift. Dark brown pour, persistent silky beige head. Aroma features the sugary rum notes on the Belgian strong, raisins, dates. My wife smelled bacon when I popped it open. Taste is sweet, the rum adding a bit of flavor, complimenting the prune/raisin/date flavors and also toning down the Belgian yeast a bit. Very light alcohol presence throughout.

8.1

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

75cl bottle from Huisbrouwerij De Halve Maan in Brugy. F: medium, tanned, average retention. C: dark, with coppery hue against the light. A: dried fruits, banana, caramel, rum, bit woody, toffee touch. T: full malty base, caramel, vinous, rum, bit woody, dried fruits, figs, brown sugar, dates, dry on the palate, bit warming alcohol, medium to high carbonation, nice aged beer, fully enjoyed.

8

Imported from untappd on 02-05-2020

7.8

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

Dark brown with quick fading head. Aroma and flavour have a lot of sweet boozy rum. Also good malt backbone and smooth , rich mouthfeel.

8

Mooi spul

7.8

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

Bottle. Color: Dark ruby, thin beige head. Tasted side by side with the base beer Straffe Hendrik quadrupel. Taste: Roasted malt, dried red fruit, caramel, sugar, booze. Hints of rum, but not very strong. Sweeter, smoother and a bit boozier than the original Quadrupel. Over medium body, soft carbonation. Nice BA, but I am missing some of the complexity of the base beer.

8

This one is aged on rum. Compared to the 2015 (armagnac), this one is dryer and less carbonated. Plenty of rum, nice amount of wood, which gives some good acidity as well. Sweet base balances nicely with the dry rum.

7.9

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Bottle from The Beer Shop in Kontich, the third edition in this series, Straffe Hendrik Quadrupel aged in rum barrels. Thick, large-bubbled but stable, very moussy, pale yellowish beige head over a very dark but fully translucent, hazy bronze-brown beer with rusty red hue and visible carbonation. Aroma of dried plums, old wood, fig compote, brown rum indeed, cola, baked banana, caramel candy, pear syrup, candied cherries, chestnuts. Sweet flavour, candied dates and blueberry jam, dried banana, light sourish cherry touch, somewhat sharp and stinging carbonation but full, smooth, rounded mouthfeel. Thick caramelly malt sweet body with lightly nutty and even somewhat chocolatey edges - like the basic beer, but the barrel aging adds quite a lot of wood flavour to the finish as well as the expected brown rum, the relative sweetness of which blends completely with the residual brown sugary sweetness, which in the end even becomes somewhat sticky. Rum-like alcohol lingers, warming but not astringent, amidst this sweetness. A great beer like its predecessors, but I personally liked the other ones better in being a bit more dry in the finish, this one seems just a tad too sweet - and in that sense a little bit out of balance compared with the previous Heritage editions.