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Brasserie Lancelot

Pours very dark brown with a good head and lacing. Nose is dark fruits, malt, and some yeast notes, but is mild for the style and ABV. Flavor is more pronounced and has all the classic quad bits of caramelized sugars, raisins, and some roasty notes. Overall, a good quad...but isn't up there with the big Belgian names.

Bottle: Poured a light brown color ale with a nice off-white foamy head with good retention and some lacing. Aroma of caramelized sugar with light cereal notes is quite pleasant. Taste is also dominated by some caramelized malt notes with minimal residual sugars and some nice cereal notes also noticeable. Body is about average with good carbonation and no apparent alcohol. Not the most complex barleywine out there but very interesting nonetheless.

 

Beer was brewed almost a year ago on the 31st of October 2013
Deep brown almost black body, fine beige head of 2 fingers and stable at half a finger, little lacing
Complex aroma of chocolate, cherry brandy, alcohol, roasted malt
Sweet malt, cherry, chocolate
Heavy body, coats the glass, lightened by fine carbonation, warming alcohol
A really well done Quadruppel. A little boozy. Quite sweet. But also nicely complex

 

 

 

 

A: Nice bold dark brown, close to black. Very little head on this beer.

S: raisins, maple, the dark fruit smell of a tripel but more subtle. Barely
recognize any alcohol smell.

T: Lots of brown sugar/maple cant distinguish. The only flaw may be the complexity
which Im actually enjoying.

M: Low carbonation

Overall I really enjoyed this beer, kind of close to barleywine but Quad seems to
fit the brew as well. Thanks to the crew @ Cave de Bulles in Paris, for reccomending this and many other great French artisanale beers.

 

 

 

A very interesting barley wine that managed to keep its dark ale appeal.
Strong in mouth, delicate smell, a coffee after-taste and the usual barley wine overall feeling on top of it all. A very good darker barley wine to please all mouths.

Anybody could please replace the "belgian strong dark ale" by a "barley wine"?
Because it's not making any justice to this very good beer.

EDIT: Victory.

 

A-dark brown red color with a light tan head and some lacing

S-roasted malt, dark fruit, caramel, coffee

T-light roasted malt, caramel, raisins, coffee, hints of chocolate

F-medium body with moderate carbonation, smooth and alcohol reasonably well hidden

O-a flavorful strong dark ale, may improve some with aging

Purchased at a shop in Paris and poured into a snifter.

Pours an excellent black cola color with a generous off white head that maintains like I dropped some Pop Rocks into it.

Smells like a delightful mix of chocolate malts and dark fruit with a hint of yeast. In some ways it smells like a blueberry muffin or a bit of raisin bread.

The beer drinks similarly. It starts out more like a rich stout with an excellent Belgian mouthfeel that spares the citrus. The sip gives way to yeast, dark fruit and booze flavors. Finishes with some dark malt and bitter chocolate flavors on the tongue. Subsequent sips yield a reversal of the order which makes this interesting.

I can't shake it but this beer drinks like a pastry, which I like as I find this different an interesting. I think it could use a cellaring to mellow and let the flavors coalesce a bit better but over all this is an interesting beer that likely won't be for everyone.

 

330ml bottle served in a Leffe chalice.

A: Pours a brown color and a big beige head is formed. Retention is medium and old very few lacings are left

S: Sweet. Coffee and dark chocolate first, followed by dry dark fruits like plums and raisins. Caramel and roasted malts

T: Follows the nose. Coffee and dark chocolate are a must. Also roasted malts and yeasts. Dark fruits. And a nice earthy bitterness can be felt. Very well balanced sweet-bitterness

M: Full molasses body. Medium to low carbonation

O: Very easy drinking despite the 11% ABV. Great beer. The best French beer I've ever had

Pours black with coffee and malty nose. It has similarities with the "Telenn Du", who's made by the same brewery but it is more unctuos with its warm old fruits flavor. Definitely better with some age. Let it grows on you. Delicious and powerful

Poured into Cantillon flute.

Black color, tan head. Ring of bubbles persists around edge of glass.

Smells of plums, molasses, Caribbean malt beverages.

Strong flavors - burnt sugar, caramel, hint of cherries or raspberries. Very sweet maltiness. Some bitterness, as in roasted malt bitterness in stouts. Lots of residual sugars give full, sweet taste and mouthfeel.

Coating, sticky mouthfeel.

Alcohol well hidden. Drinkable in measured portions.