Another brewer coming from a home brewing background, Andy Prearis entered his Quadrupel into the annual ‘Brouwland Biercompetitie’ in 2011. His beer won the competition and he was voted ‘Best Hobby Brewer 2011’.
The beer is dark brown, with tinges of red and a tightly packed tan foam. The aroma is typical of a quadrupel – raisins, figs, plums, brown sugar, clove, cinnamon.
To taste, the beer starts with a fruity, burned sugar sweetness. Roasted malts and spicing serves to break up the sweetness, and the beer dries out as it progresses. There is a deep lingering aftertaste highlighting the richness of flavours, with a little warmth from the big body to round things out.
Another award: in 2013, the beer ratings website Ratebeer elected the brewery the ‘Best New Brewer in Belgium’.
A bold, strong dark ale edging toward a quadrupel style beer
by L’Abbaye Notre-Dame de Scourmont
The classic strong dark Trappist ale from the Chimay Trappist Monastery
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by Brouwerij Emelisse/Slot-Oostende
The winter seasonal from Emelisse is an ABT/quadrupel. Each year they add a different ingredient - for 2015 they've added English liquorice
The quadrupel/ABT beer from the newest Trappist Monastery from Austria.
The new addition to the Gulden Draak label - a rich and boozy quadruple
An award winning quad that kick-started the commercial brewing careers of two twin brothers
A rich and boozy quadrupel, featuring Alvinne's Morpheus house yeast
by Bierbrouwerij De Koningshoeven
The top of the tree from Dutch Trappist Monastery La Trappe
by Brasserie Artisinale Millevertus
A big, rich and smooth Belgian quadrupel style, just the thing for a cool night by the fireplace
More like a traditional quadrupel than the Pannepot; brewed for the Dutch market.
One of the best Belgian beers you'll ever taste - so much flavour it's impossible to describe.
The grandfather of Trappist strong dark ales - does it get any better than this?
The showpiece quadrupel of the St Bernardus Brewery - as close to Westvleteren 12 as you can get without the real thing.
The newest addition to the beer portfolio from the only active brewery still inside the city walls of Bruges.
A delicious dark quadruple aged for three years in Woodford Reserve Bourbon barrels
A big mouthful of flavour with this fiery quadruple, brewed in the La Trappe Monastery by one of Belgium's leading female brewers.
A delicious grassy blond beer from 2013's Best New Brewer Belgium
