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La Trappe Quadrupel (Koningshoeven / Dominus)
Bierbrouwerij De Koningshoeven B.V.
- From:
- Bierbrouwerij De Koningshoeven B.V.
- Netherlands
- Style:
- Quadrupel (Quad)
Ranked #31 - ABV:
- 10%
- Score:
- 93
Ranked #3,398 - Avg:
- 4.18 | pDev: 10.05%
- Reviews:
- 1,028
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Mar 14, 2024
- Added:
- Mar 07, 2002
- Wants:
- 197
- Gots:
- 613
Quadrupel is La Trappe’s heaviest ale with a stunning amber colour. Its warm and intense flavour is rich and finely balanced. Malty sweet, slightly burnt, and pleasantly bitter with a sweet aftertaste. Quadrupel continues to ferment after bottling and offers aromas of banana, almond, vanilla and others.
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Rated by solok from California
3.99/5 rDev -4.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.99/5 rDev -4.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
Dark. Raisin or port flavor. Gently effervescent. Classic quad.
Mar 14, 2024Reviewed by BJB13 from Maryland
4.34/5 rDev +3.8%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.34/5 rDev +3.8%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
330 ml bottle poured into a Tulip.
Best before 07/2026
L: The large off-white head tops an evenly hazy chestnut brown and fairly lively pour. The foam lasted for the entire glass and leaves decent lace. Alcohol content is high enough to show on the side of the glass.
S: Sticky dried dark fruit and dark sugar aromas with minor spicy and hop notes make for an inviting nose that increases a bit in strength and depth as it warms.
T: Big and rich malty flavor opens in the medium sweet raisin, candied sugar and bread crust neighborhood before more dry spicy, hop and subdued Belgian yeast flavors add balance for a quick finish that leaves you with an earthy, and more sweet than tangy, woody aftertaste.
F: Medium-strength body is soft overall with some edges early on in the glass. But even after warming, never becomes what I think of as creamy. It is only slightly warming.
O: This has full flavor and strikes a nice balance between sweet beginnings and a semi-dry finish. This drinks very fast; especially for its ABV and leaves me looking for a second bottle.
Mar 08, 2024Best before 07/2026
L: The large off-white head tops an evenly hazy chestnut brown and fairly lively pour. The foam lasted for the entire glass and leaves decent lace. Alcohol content is high enough to show on the side of the glass.
S: Sticky dried dark fruit and dark sugar aromas with minor spicy and hop notes make for an inviting nose that increases a bit in strength and depth as it warms.
T: Big and rich malty flavor opens in the medium sweet raisin, candied sugar and bread crust neighborhood before more dry spicy, hop and subdued Belgian yeast flavors add balance for a quick finish that leaves you with an earthy, and more sweet than tangy, woody aftertaste.
F: Medium-strength body is soft overall with some edges early on in the glass. But even after warming, never becomes what I think of as creamy. It is only slightly warming.
O: This has full flavor and strikes a nice balance between sweet beginnings and a semi-dry finish. This drinks very fast; especially for its ABV and leaves me looking for a second bottle.
Reviewed by Cwrw from Canada (AB)
4.14/5 rDev -1%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.14/5 rDev -1%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Pours out into my goblet a cloudy burnt orange with an enormous off white foaming head. One of the least dark quads I've had. A topping of head sticks around and leaves some lacing on the glass. Looks great.
Sugary hits up front on the aroma, a candied sweetness combined with orange and banana and a yeasty funk. Nice. Honey, dates, a bit of molasses, maybe some roasted almonds along with caramel and vanilla. The nutty almond aroma increases as the beer warms in the glass, but it's the yeasty spiciness that keeps me coming back.
Taste is more of the same, plenty of sweet almond and orange and banana. The finish has a tinge of alcohol, but it ends mainly sweet as you might expect. Sugary, almost rum-like in flavour in the middle. Horehound, honey, caramel and a nice roasted malty profile. A touch of cinnamon and spiciness from the yeast. A very sweet aftertaste. Delicious.
Mouthfeel is velvety and moderately carbonated. Dangerously quaffable at this percentage. While not, in my opinion, comparable to some of the other Trappist Quads, this is still an amazing beer.
Feb 01, 2024Sugary hits up front on the aroma, a candied sweetness combined with orange and banana and a yeasty funk. Nice. Honey, dates, a bit of molasses, maybe some roasted almonds along with caramel and vanilla. The nutty almond aroma increases as the beer warms in the glass, but it's the yeasty spiciness that keeps me coming back.
Taste is more of the same, plenty of sweet almond and orange and banana. The finish has a tinge of alcohol, but it ends mainly sweet as you might expect. Sugary, almost rum-like in flavour in the middle. Horehound, honey, caramel and a nice roasted malty profile. A touch of cinnamon and spiciness from the yeast. A very sweet aftertaste. Delicious.
Mouthfeel is velvety and moderately carbonated. Dangerously quaffable at this percentage. While not, in my opinion, comparable to some of the other Trappist Quads, this is still an amazing beer.
Reviewed by BillyNoonan from Ireland
4/5 rDev -4.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4/5 rDev -4.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Pours murky amber with tan-white cap. Instant banana and malt on nose. Taste is dark and dreamy, punchy and heat of alcohol, sweetness of raisin soaked in rum and molasses. Lethally drinkable. Shortcut to smashed!
Jan 27, 2024Reviewed by Profundobaso from New York
3.93/5 rDev -6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.93/5 rDev -6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Look - 330ml bottle poured into a 250ml chalice. ruby amber in color, with a large foamy head that mostly dissipates, leaving behind little to moderate lacing. lightly cloudy.
Smell - familiar phenols from the style, accompanied by dried fruits (raisins), almonds, and caramel.
Taste - vanilla hits the palate first, with a fair bit of sweetness and caramel notes. finish is slightly spicy and warming.
Feel - medium bodied, average carbonation, and a relatively strong one at 10% ABV. alcohol is well masked but detectable from the warmness.
Overall - a solid heavy hitter that is scarily easy to drink. flavor wise I actually prefer some of the lower ABV offerings, but this one still gets most things right.
Dec 29, 2023Smell - familiar phenols from the style, accompanied by dried fruits (raisins), almonds, and caramel.
Taste - vanilla hits the palate first, with a fair bit of sweetness and caramel notes. finish is slightly spicy and warming.
Feel - medium bodied, average carbonation, and a relatively strong one at 10% ABV. alcohol is well masked but detectable from the warmness.
Overall - a solid heavy hitter that is scarily easy to drink. flavor wise I actually prefer some of the lower ABV offerings, but this one still gets most things right.
Rated by Rwoodroffe
4.62/5 rDev +10.5%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.62/5 rDev +10.5%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Sweet with subtle fruity flavor. Dangerously smooth and easy to drink.
Sep 15, 2023Reviewed by beerwithmeIRL from Ireland
4.33/5 rDev +3.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
4.33/5 rDev +3.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
750ml Bottle - Pours a deep ruby brown with off-white foam head that dissipates slowly. Smells of sweet dark & dried fruit. Tastes very sweet, with strong notes of dried fruit, with a touch of banana and spice. A little surypy in texture and finish. Great little gem of a quad.
Aug 17, 2023Reviewed by cwm51662 from Indiana
4.25/5 rDev +1.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4.25
4.25/5 rDev +1.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4.25
First sniff is banana, first sip is raisin. No hint of the abv until a few sips in. It decided to foam at opening, but not disastrously. Very pretty in the glass, very smooth going down. This could be a dangerous "I'm thirsty" beer....
Jul 15, 2023Reviewed by JohnniEMc from Pennsylvania
4.19/5 rDev +0.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.19/5 rDev +0.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Served in a clear pint glass, filled with almost no off-white head, from a tap it came. It's brightly copper-amber and just slightly cloudy. It provides that Belgian smell of yeast and malt, with a little hops added. It's banana-like sweet and unfortunately, a bit of banana-like stickiness comes with it. But, not so much more than others within the style, even the great ones. To its credit, there is also much more than the banana hit. The notes described almond and vanilla presence and vanilla is a definite. There's also some cinnamon, or maybe clove reference that, with the ABV, provides a nice bite. Overall, this drinks mostly sweet and spicy. The aforementioned stickiness is much better than it being too thin. There's no glass lacing and little alcohol hit, which is only an asset to the overall taste. This hits all the right notes for a Belgian Quad, so those that love them will love this one.
Jun 16, 2023Reviewed by stortore from Illinois
4.18/5 rDev 0%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.18/5 rDev 0%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
750 ml bottle into a chalice. Secret code L19A21, had 8/21/21.
Pours a medium reddish amber, a little cloudy, with a one and a half inch foamy head with very good retention and a decent amount of foamy lacing. Aromas of caramel, malt, banana, spices, grapes, Candi sugar, a bit of a sweet aroma as it warms. Mostly similar flavors- caramel, malt, spices, grapes, Candi sugar, some plums, a light, earthy hop bitterness midway through the finish. Smooth, semi- dry, a very good medium body, well carbonated.
This is lighter than typical for the style, but matches up well to any Quad. The grapes and caramel are the most prominent. Very enjoyable.
May 19, 2023Pours a medium reddish amber, a little cloudy, with a one and a half inch foamy head with very good retention and a decent amount of foamy lacing. Aromas of caramel, malt, banana, spices, grapes, Candi sugar, a bit of a sweet aroma as it warms. Mostly similar flavors- caramel, malt, spices, grapes, Candi sugar, some plums, a light, earthy hop bitterness midway through the finish. Smooth, semi- dry, a very good medium body, well carbonated.
This is lighter than typical for the style, but matches up well to any Quad. The grapes and caramel are the most prominent. Very enjoyable.
La Trappe Quadrupel (Koningshoeven / Dominus) from Bierbrouwerij De Koningshoeven B.V.
Beer rating:
93 out of
100 with
2584 ratings
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