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't Smisje BBBourgondier
Brouwerij Smisje
- From:
- Brouwerij Smisje
- Belgium
- Style:
- Quadrupel (Quad)
Ranked #101 - ABV:
- 12%
- Score:
- 88
Ranked #13,171 - Avg:
- 3.95 | pDev: 12.15%
- Reviews:
- 104
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Aug 07, 2023
- Added:
- Jan 12, 2003
- Wants:
- 8
- Gots:
- 12
Currently only 50 cases of this beer are available per year. Brewed in honor of the Burgundian Babble Belt.
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Reviewed by GreesyFizeek from New York
4.06/5 rDev +2.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.06/5 rDev +2.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
This one pours a golden amber brown color, with a small head, and a bit of lacing.
There’s lots of caramel on the nose, with some light fruitiness, a peppery and herbal spice, Fig Newtons, and some chocolate.
This has a very subtle but pleasant spiciness to it, herbal, and almost tea-like, with a barleywine-like backbone, rather than the quad that it seems be. There’s definite caramel and chocolate, and some breadiness as well.
This is medium bodied, slightly creamy, with a nice spicy finish.
This was unique but definitely still up my alley.
Aug 07, 2023There’s lots of caramel on the nose, with some light fruitiness, a peppery and herbal spice, Fig Newtons, and some chocolate.
This has a very subtle but pleasant spiciness to it, herbal, and almost tea-like, with a barleywine-like backbone, rather than the quad that it seems be. There’s definite caramel and chocolate, and some breadiness as well.
This is medium bodied, slightly creamy, with a nice spicy finish.
This was unique but definitely still up my alley.
Reviewed by Raisingfable from Minnesota
4.47/5 rDev +13.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.47/5 rDev +13.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
appearance
light brown color,
hazy
no residual head or lacing
very fizzy with effervescence
billowing towards the surface
like that of sparkling wine
which quiets down after a couple
minutes in the glass
smell
tart raisins
wine
slight vinegar
caramel
spiced apple cider
taste
smooth
fruity
preserved lemons
caramel
cinnamon
apple
hint of smoke
mouthfeel
light with a lively carbonation
not too sticky
with slight warmth in the back of the throat
overall
A lucid quad offering from Smisje. Scary drinkability: a lightly textured body and flirtatious carbonation keep the palate wanting more, never getting too sweet or syrupy. It almost has a little rugged malt backbone that keeps it from dipping off the palate in the long finish. One of the easiest drinking 12% abv ales I’ve ever drank.
Aug 28, 2015light brown color,
hazy
no residual head or lacing
very fizzy with effervescence
billowing towards the surface
like that of sparkling wine
which quiets down after a couple
minutes in the glass
smell
tart raisins
wine
slight vinegar
caramel
spiced apple cider
taste
smooth
fruity
preserved lemons
caramel
cinnamon
apple
hint of smoke
mouthfeel
light with a lively carbonation
not too sticky
with slight warmth in the back of the throat
overall
A lucid quad offering from Smisje. Scary drinkability: a lightly textured body and flirtatious carbonation keep the palate wanting more, never getting too sweet or syrupy. It almost has a little rugged malt backbone that keeps it from dipping off the palate in the long finish. One of the easiest drinking 12% abv ales I’ve ever drank.
Reviewed by pat61 from Minnesota
4.5/5 rDev +13.9%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.5/5 rDev +13.9%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Not a big nose – traces of fruit, caramel, malt. It pours dark caramel under a 1” light tan foam cap that dissipates fairly quick for a Belgian. The palate starts with a fruit cocktail composed of cherries, light apple and plum sweetened by light caramel malt and seasoned with light spice and herbs. It finishes with a light bitter accent. The beer is yeast driven but well composed. The beer is highly carbonated with a body just above medium.
Mar 17, 2015Reviewed by Bitterbill from Wyoming
4.49/5 rDev +13.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.49/5 rDev +13.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
It looks like a clear copper coloured brew with a small but persistent head of foam, usual good lacing from a Belgian beer.
The smell, well, it's very similar to an aged UK Old or Barley Wine. Lots of caramel malt more than hinting notes of Port. Aged Thomas Hardy or JR Lee's, anyone?
The taste just verifies what I said about the smell, to the letter.
Very nice mouthfeel with lightish carbonation to with the medium body
It drinks like a champion of an Old Ale/Barleywine. I have to get more.
Nov 05, 2014The smell, well, it's very similar to an aged UK Old or Barley Wine. Lots of caramel malt more than hinting notes of Port. Aged Thomas Hardy or JR Lee's, anyone?
The taste just verifies what I said about the smell, to the letter.
Very nice mouthfeel with lightish carbonation to with the medium body
It drinks like a champion of an Old Ale/Barleywine. I have to get more.
Reviewed by StonedTrippin from Colorado
3.78/5 rDev -4.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
3.78/5 rDev -4.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
quad done with valerian root and lemon balm, a nice herbal touch to a peciuiarly light base quad. cloudy medium amber color without much thickness, i am surprised how light this is, with effervescent carbonation it hardly looks like a quad at all. the yeast is forward in the nose, with esters of pears and figs and raisins, as well as a green tea bitterness likely from the lemon balm. the flavor is the same as the nose, not super complex or evolving, but extremely different from what we generally expect in a quad. absent is the dense dark sweet grains, and instead there is an herbal springtime lightness to it that aids in drinkability. i would never in a million years guess 12% abv for this beer, it drinks so much lighter than that. a beer that probably deserves a little more attention on our shores here, especially considering how affordable it is. i wish for more body out of a quad, and thats the part that really threw me off, but i loved the bright bubbles and the dryness on the finish. cool use of these botanicals in a very unique beer.
Apr 22, 2014
't Smisje BBBourgondier from Brouwerij Smisje
Beer rating:
88 out of
100 with
144 ratings
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