Sherry Finish Vanilla Quad
Upright Brewing Company
- From:
- Upright Brewing Company
- Oregon, United States
- Style:
- Belgian Quadrupel (Quad)
- ABV:
- 10%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.07 | pDev: 10.81%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Oct 03, 2021
- Added:
- Mar 30, 2019
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
NO SCORE
-
-
Sherry Finish Vanilla Quad is a celebratory brew made for our tenth anniversary. A big, complex beer that started in our open fermenter and later matured in a new foeder, the quad spent it's final weeks in sherry casks with whole Madagascar vanilla beans. Layers of fruit and caramel notes fill in around the vanilla making for a fun but heavily nuanced flavor.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by REVZEB from Illinois
3.79/5 rDev -6.9%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.79/5 rDev -6.9%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
Opaque brown with clearer edges, tan head and lacing galore. Sherry barrel with vanilla, caramel, sweet dark fruit, and belgian yeast in the nose. Sherry and vanilla dominate the soft caramel in the taste, booze kicks in near the finish, dark fruit are left to fend for themselves, oxidation emerges more and more as it warms. Too out of balance to really get all the nuance. Feel is boozy, lifts quickly up the palate with emergent sweetness, chewy but thinner, want more character from the yeast.
Oct 03, 2021
Reviewed by DefenCorps from Oregon
3.59/5 rDev -11.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.59/5 rDev -11.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
On tap at the brewery.
A dark Ruddy brown with a thin, white head that falls off leaving little lacing, this looks solid. The nose is a little unfocused. While I was nominally afraid of an overload of Sherry and vanilla, I wasn't quite expecting a surprising lack of those flavor notes. Light and noticeable, what stands out more is a mild grainy sweetness with caramel and toffee to go with the delicate spice notes from the yeast. On the palate, there is a pronounced grainy and mildly spicy bitterness that does clash with the Sherry and vanilla notes, mild as they are. This bitterness lingers on into the finish, where it detracts from the overall flavor palate. Decent yet disappointing.
Apr 01, 2019A dark Ruddy brown with a thin, white head that falls off leaving little lacing, this looks solid. The nose is a little unfocused. While I was nominally afraid of an overload of Sherry and vanilla, I wasn't quite expecting a surprising lack of those flavor notes. Light and noticeable, what stands out more is a mild grainy sweetness with caramel and toffee to go with the delicate spice notes from the yeast. On the palate, there is a pronounced grainy and mildly spicy bitterness that does clash with the Sherry and vanilla notes, mild as they are. This bitterness lingers on into the finish, where it detracts from the overall flavor palate. Decent yet disappointing.
We love reviews (150 characters or more)! Check out: How to Review a Beer. You don't need to get fancy. Drop some thoughts on the beer's attributes (look, smell, taste, feel) plus your overall impression. Something that backs up your rating and helps others. Thanks!