Elevation Beer Company Apis IV

Another beer I received as part of a special shipment from the Rare Beer of the Month Club, I received a bottle of Elevation Beer Company Apis IV, a quadrupel brewed with honey. The beer pours a dark brown color with with a thin beige colored head that leaves no lacing on the glass. The aroma consists of caramel, fig, raisin, date, and a touch of honey sweetness. The taste is smooth and sweet on the front end with date, fig, caramel, and raisin. While the honey adds some sweetness, it also dries out the finish a little bit with some grass and Belgian spiciness. The alcohol content is 10.7% ABV. This beer had a lot of sweetness to it, but the honey dried out the finish wonderfully and balanced it very well.

8 Wired Brewing The Sultan Quadrupel

My buddy Matt picked me up a bottle of 8 Wired Brewing The Sultan Quadrupel from Discount Wines and Liquors in Boonton, NJ. The beer pours a reddish amber color with a bubbly off-white colored head. The aroma consists of raisins, grapes, figs, dates, and grass. The taste is sweet and bitter at the same time with plenty of raisins and grapes on the front end with a wine-like dryness on the finish. Figs and dates linger on the tongue before grass and hints of pepper come out to play. The only detriment to the beer is a slight hint of metallic flavoring to it. The alcohol content is 10.0% ABV. I really enjoyed the raisin and grape flavors added, but on the finish the slight metallic flavor hindered the full enjoyment.

Schlafly Quadrupel

I picked up a bottle of Schlafly Quadrupel from Discount Wines and Liquors in Boonton, NJ, and decided to share it with my buddy Matt. The beer pours an amber color with a frothy off-white colored head that leaves a good bit of lacing on the glass. The aroma consists of raisin, fig, date, and caramel. The taste is very biting with lots of raisin and fig up front, with the raisin causing the bite. Some slight alcohol burn comes in on the finish, but the beer rounds out with some caramel and date flavors. A hint of grass remains on the tongue in the after taste. The alcohol content is 12.0% ABV. This was a well put together quadrupel without too much of an alcohol burn. The dark fruit flavors really came out to play, and were very well blended with each other.