On tap at Taphouse 15, Leap Year celebrator’s a dry-hopped, hazy beige yellowed IPA/quad blend marching orange-peeled grapefruit, pineapple and papaya tanginess thru mossy quad-like cellared fungi then picking up soured lemon rot spot. Strangely, 12% ABV stays calm in zestful Citra-Nelson hop mix.
Boozy 10% ABV of turbid deep brown quad established by dry burgundy-port insistence and sweet brandy rip as sharp-spiced dried fruiting caresses chewy caramel creaminess reinforcing brown chocolate resin. At the finish, green raisin, purple grape and fig illusions ascend alongside mocha-induced red wining.
On tap at Ambulance, bold dry-hopped quad retains IPA-like orange powdering, mango tanginess, grapefruit bittering, pineapple zesting and peachy marmalade tartness undercut by fusel alcohol burn (12.5% ABV) impeding buttery caramel malt richness.
Lovely 4th Anniversary (2022) celebrator is a coffee-dominant quadrupel. Sweet milk-creamed coffee overtones gain slight acidity as dark candi-sugared quad yeast picks up mild black peppered spicing and dewy orange pekoe tea snips.
Just a tad underwhelming taste-wise. Subtle candi-sugared raisin, plum and fig sweetness plus glazed pecan nuttiness receive lightly creamed molasses toffee buttering as spiced orange snip and wispy white peppered herbage stay back in dewy tobacco-roasted peat setting.
On tap at Beef Trust, fruit-caked Belgian dark candi sugaring merges caramelized plum-date-raisin splurge with understated cotton-candied banana sweetness above toffee-spiced pilsner malting in splendidly crystalline, stylishly forthright manner.
On tap at Plank Pizza, fulsome (11.1% ABV) quad with Concord grape and fig juice adjuncts plus grains of paradise peppering retains Belgian candi-sugared sweetness. Grape-jammed fig spicing gains black cherry tartness at the burgundy-dried fruitcake finish.
On tap at Ambulance, opulent Three Philosophers spinoff provides hop-charred black coffee roast and pureed blueberry tartness to original cherry jubilee/ Lambic blend. But its bustling flavor profile never fully integrates since its boldly impulsive dark chocolate-ravaged black coffee richness diminishes the dark cherry and blueberry tartness as well as its tertiary cocoa, toffee, plum and apricot illusions.
On tap at Poor Henry’s, lusciously caramelized barleywine/quadrupel blend aged for a year in bourbon barrels proves immediately profound. Lovely bourbon vanilla sweetness gains chocolate-spiced frisk at dried fruited midst. Chocolate-covered cherry, pureed raisin and sugared fig illusions synch with rummy quad intensity to elevate barleywinish toffee-candied caramel finish. Resilient!
Sticky dark Belgian candi syrup drapes cinnamon stick-sweetened orange peel adjunct as well as whiskeyed dark cherry tartness, picking up a sharp medical kick at the viscous fruit-glazed finish. Bruised orange, Grand Marnier and tangerine liqueur illusions find meager space.
On tap at Seven Lakes Station, murkily amber-browned quad brings dewy sweetness to brown-sugared raisin, dried prune and plum tones as well as oncoming brown chocolate spicing. Try in lieu of molasses fruitcake.
Sloppily aggressive Belgian quad/ German bock mix lets rotted apple mustiness, viscous corn syruping and disturbing alcohol burn relegate, then ruin, its fig-dried raisin, plum and prune niceties. Disgustingly cloy and stylishly conflicted 14% ABV Lithuanian worth avoiding unless inducing hangover.
