Topic Archives: Quadrupels
Allagash Four Makes Return
Allagash Four Ale is back on shelves. The Belgian-style quadrupel is brewed with four hops, four malts, four sugars, and fermented a total of four times, with four yeast strains.
The complexity of the brewing process is matched by the complexity of this unique beer. Flavors of raisin, candied fruit and plum express themselves throughout.
Allagash Four is available in 750ml bottles, and draft.
Style: Belgian-style Quadrupel (w/ Candi Sugar)
Availability: 750ml bottles, Draft. Limited release.
10% ABV
Image via Redstone Liquors
Three Taverns Bourbon Barrel Heavy Bells Debuts Next Week
Three Taverns Craft Brewery (Decatur, GA) will debut a new barrel aged offering next week, Heavy Bells.
The base beer is Quasimodo (the original bell ringer), aged in eight year old bourbon barrels. There has already been some sneak peeks on tap at the brewery.
The general public will have a chance at this brew in the VIP section of the 2014 Decatur Beer Festival. Bottles and limited draft arrive next week.
Style: Quadrupel (Barrel Aged. Bourbon.)
Availability: 750ml bottles, Draft.
Arrival: 10/20/14
11.5% ABV
Three Taverns “Quasimodo” Due in March
Three Taverns Craft Brewery (Decatur, GA) is readying Quasimodo, a quadrupel for release this March.
If you have been following brewery founder Brian Purcell’s path to opening the brewery, you might have had test batches of Quasimodo.
Read More: Three Taverns News
Expect this quadrupel in 750 ml bottles and draft. As an added bonus, some of it will be released in whiskey barrels later this year.
Style: Quadrupel
Availability: 750ml Bottles, Draft
Arrival: March, 2014
?? ABV
New Artwork: Weyerbacher Blasphemy
Weyerbacher (Easton, PA) is just about done rounding out their rebranding efforts. Blasphemy actually has one new piece of artwork, changed since the original seen below.
Blasphemy has a fairly sordid history. It was retired, then new batches found the drain thanks to QC standards, then finally released. Never give up. Looks like this will grace the 750’s when its time again.
Style: Quadrupel (Barrel Aged)
Availability: 750ml bottles
11.8% ABV
Version 2
O.G. Artwork
Aged in Rum: Cigar City Forgotten Island
Introducing Cigar City Brewing’s Forgotten Island. This not-so-forgettable potential release from the Tampa based brewery is a Belgian-style quad aged in rum barrel. Rum on a tropical island? Count us in.
This dark complex style of ale originated in the Trappist monasteries of Belgium. It was sipped by monks during fasting and winter months. Forgotten Island adds a tropical twist via agin in Jamaican rum barrels. The barrel lends notes of vanilla, molasses, orange peel, cocoa, brown sugar, nutmeg, hazelnut, apricot and peach.This plethora of flavors and aromas from the rum barrel intermingles with banana, clove, cinnamon,fig, plum and brown sugar aromatics and flavors from the quadruple, creating a contemplative ale perfect for introspective moments far from the cares of the world.
Style: Belgian-style Quadrupel (Barrel Aged, Rum)
Availability: 750 ml bottles
Arrival: TBA
?? ABV
note: The above is tentative. Subject to change at whim of the brewer, the beer, or the barrel.
Samuel Adams Four Barrel Quad For A Good Cause
The Boston Beer Company shows both creativity and a their charitable side with a new brew – Four Barrel Quad. The Belgian style beer benefits Children of Restaurant Employees (CORE). CORE raises money to help the children of the hospitality industry that have been afflicted by a life threatening condition. Good healthcare isn’t easy to come by in the restaurant industry.
Four Barrel Quad was brewed exclusively by Samuel Adams to benefit Children of Restaurant Employees (CORE). Full of complex flavors, this limited-edition Belgian Style Quad has spicy peppery notes imparted by the Belgian yeast and a lingering sweetnessfron the malt. Once brewed, the beer then spent months aging in the finest Kentucky bourbon barrens to impart a charred-oak and vanilla character. Raise a glass and enjoy this beer by Summer 2013.
Style: Belgian Style Quadrupel (Barrel Aged)
Availability: 750 ml bottles
Arrival: TBA
?? ABV
Learn more or make a donation – http://www.coregives.com
Elevation Beer False Summit, a bourbon quad
Elevation Beer False Summit, new to the brewery’s Double Black Series.
Elevation Beer False Summit is a bourbon barrel aged, quadrupel, aged in Breck Distilling bourbon barrels.
“...False Summit, is a fantastic 11.1% ABV quadrupel and much more traditional then our Apis IV. We aged it in Breck Distilling Bourbon Barrels to give it nice subtle notes of vanilla, oak, and bourbon.”
Style: Quadrupel (w/, Candi Sugar, Barrel Aged. Bourbon.)
Hops: Northern Brewer, Saaz
Malts: Two Row, Belgian Pale
Availability: 750 ml bottles
Arrival: Mid-March, 2013
11.1% ABV
