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Anxiety Belgian Quad
Phillips Brewing & Malting Co.
- From:
- Phillips Brewing & Malting Co.
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- Quadrupel (Quad)
- ABV:
- 8%
- Score:
- Needs more ratings
- Avg:
- 3.6 | pDev: 7.5%
- Reviews:
- 2
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Sep 12, 2017
- Added:
- Nov 23, 2016
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
Anxiety is medium in body, pours a deep amber colour, and features aromas of sweet raisins and freshly baked bread. Crafted with real Belgian Candi sugar and authentic Abbey yeast, phenolics and esters are slightly muted in this expression that showcases rich malts and a warming finish.
Recent ratings and reviews.
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Reviewed by LampertLand from Canada (BC)
3.85/5 rDev +6.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.85/5 rDev +6.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Phillips Brewing 'Anxiety Ale' @ 8.0% , served from a 650 ml bottle purchased for $7
A-pour is gold from the bottle to a golden amber in the glass with a small thin beige head leaving a spotty lace along the goblet , last pour is very dark
S-belgian yeast
T-seems to be closer to a BSDA than a quad
MF-ok carbonation , feels full bodied
Ov-one and done
prost LampertLand
Apr 01, 2017A-pour is gold from the bottle to a golden amber in the glass with a small thin beige head leaving a spotty lace along the goblet , last pour is very dark
S-belgian yeast
T-seems to be closer to a BSDA than a quad
MF-ok carbonation , feels full bodied
Ov-one and done
prost LampertLand
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.75/5 rDev +4.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.75/5 rDev +4.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
650ml bottle - so they've changed the nature of last year's beet-flavoured Advent calendar version of Anxiety Ale to a standalone Quadrupel now - works for me!
This beer pours a clear, dark orange-brick amber colour, with three fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and somewhat creamy beige head, which leaves a few instances of roiling sea crest lace around the glass as it evenly recedes.
It smells of fermenting white wine, grainy and doughy caramel malt, musty yeast, besotted light raisins, and some tame leafy, earthy, and certainly perfumed floral green hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, a touch of biscuity toffee, slightly phenolic yeast, a hint of under the basement stairs mustiness, free-range candy sugars, white sultana raisins, and more understated leafy, weedy, and 'tis the season musky hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly laid-back in its kind of lackadaisical frothiness, the body a solid medium weight, and mostly smooth, just a sense of impending alcohol doom taking a minor cut out of the proceedings here. It finishes off-dry, the musty and yeasty esters playing the caramel and boozy elements off of each other.
Overall, this is a genial enough version of the style, in a kind of junior varsity manner - most of the expected points are well hit upon, but that inherent complexity never quite presents itself. No biggie - I'm still glad that Phillips decided to release a few bombers of new holiday-themed stuff, and not force us into their regular offerings in the process - no offense intended.
Nov 29, 2016This beer pours a clear, dark orange-brick amber colour, with three fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and somewhat creamy beige head, which leaves a few instances of roiling sea crest lace around the glass as it evenly recedes.
It smells of fermenting white wine, grainy and doughy caramel malt, musty yeast, besotted light raisins, and some tame leafy, earthy, and certainly perfumed floral green hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, a touch of biscuity toffee, slightly phenolic yeast, a hint of under the basement stairs mustiness, free-range candy sugars, white sultana raisins, and more understated leafy, weedy, and 'tis the season musky hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly laid-back in its kind of lackadaisical frothiness, the body a solid medium weight, and mostly smooth, just a sense of impending alcohol doom taking a minor cut out of the proceedings here. It finishes off-dry, the musty and yeasty esters playing the caramel and boozy elements off of each other.
Overall, this is a genial enough version of the style, in a kind of junior varsity manner - most of the expected points are well hit upon, but that inherent complexity never quite presents itself. No biggie - I'm still glad that Phillips decided to release a few bombers of new holiday-themed stuff, and not force us into their regular offerings in the process - no offense intended.
Anxiety Belgian Quad from Phillips Brewing & Malting Co.
Beer rating:
3.6 out of
5 with
5 ratings
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