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.
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LONG LOT QUADROBEANIA
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.
CLOWN SHOES ONE HOLIDAY BELGIAN-STYLE QUADRUPEL
Just a tad underwhelming taste-wise. Subtle candi-sugared raisin, plum and fig sweetness receives lightly creamed molasses toffee buttering, spiced orange snip and wispy white peppered herbage in dewy tobacco-roasted peat setting.
ICARUS TAKE IT INTO OVERTIME BELGIAN QUAD
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.
GUN HILL SUPERSUPREME
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.
OMMEGANG THREE PHILOSOPHERS BLUEBERRY COFFEE QUAD
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.
BRIX CITY POCO FUERTE
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!
RIVER HORSE QUADSIMODO’S SPRINKLE GOBBLE QUAD
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.
(BRUGSE) STRAFFE HENDRIK QUAD
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.
(RINKUSKAI) HELL ON HIGH QUAD BOCK
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.
OFF COLOR GROWL
Dissipating dark candi syruping bedevils sweet beet-sugared aspect, veering enigmatic quadruple-styled Belgian ale in different direction as dewy peat soiling and mildly soured dried fruiting come to the fore above its frail pilsner-oats spine. Soured fig-raisin conflux marginalizes pecan-buttered banana-plantain stint and wispy vanilla jaunt. Needs better and broader quad-like flavor profile.
LOGSDON KRIEKE VIER AGED IN BOURBON BARRELS WITH CHERRIES
On tap at Ambulance, resilient bourbon-aged Belgian quad serenely integrates kriek-styled oaken cherry sourness with candi-sugared dried fruiting that charmingly contrasts lactic brettanomyces yeast influence and vinous white grape esters above musty barnyard leathering. Gentle bourbon warmth nearly fades but sour cherry pucker never falters.
