The Noble One
High Hops Brewery
- From:
- High Hops Brewery
- Colorado, United States
- Style:
- Belgian Quadrupel (Quad)
- ABV:
- 10.5%
- Score:
- +1 rating needed
- Avg:
- 3.61 | pDev: 14.13%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Feb 09, 2018
- Added:
- Jul 14, 2014
- Wants:
- 3
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by NickMunford from Wyoming
3.71/5 rDev +2.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.71/5 rDev +2.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
I tried a fresh bottle, then their special 4 year anniversary release, which was aged 4 years in the bottle. They made 60 bottles. Tried #17. The high sweetness in the fresh bottle has mellowed in the aged version. Earthy aromas and flavors are more evident. The finish is dry and more pleasant. Age does this beer good.
Nov 19, 2016
Reviewed by Jugs_McGhee from Texas
2.38/5 rDev -34.1%
look: 2.75 | smell: 2.25 | taste: 2.25 | feel: 2.25 | overall: 2.75
2.38/5 rDev -34.1%
look: 2.75 | smell: 2.25 | taste: 2.25 | feel: 2.25 | overall: 2.75
BOTTLE reviewed live. Served into a goblet.
HEAD: None. Just a tan floater ring that recedes inside 2 minutes.
BODY: Deep ruby-amber. Translucent. Semitransparent.
No yeast is visible within.
Appears adequately carbonated. Not stellar looking for the style, but within conventions. I'm optimistic given the brewery.
AROMA: Candi sugar, amber malt extract, malt syrup, ripe plum, date, caramalt, crystal malt, breadiness, and treacle.
TASTE: Matches the aroma, except the taste is shallow. The dark fruit presence is way too reticent and weak for the style. On the sweet side, with a malt extract character that steers it towards cloying and away from balance. It's not dialed in, but approximates the style generally. Prune juice lends it an almost watery character, thinning it out.
TEXTURE: A biteen syrupy and sticky. Smooth and wet. Carbonation is off. Unrefreshing. Lacks the body and heft of a good quadrupel, as well as the fragility of the best beers in the style. Fails to elevate the beer as a whole or to accentuate specific notes; even the stickiness fails to bring any depth out of the dark fruits.
OVERALL: It's not stellar for a quadrupel, and lacks any Belgian character at all. High Hops might want to stick to their bread and butter - hoppy brews. I wouldn't get this again, and it isn't worth its price point. A pretty lackluster beer in the style across the board, but it could be worse - at least it's not medicinal.
D+
Dec 24, 2015HEAD: None. Just a tan floater ring that recedes inside 2 minutes.
BODY: Deep ruby-amber. Translucent. Semitransparent.
No yeast is visible within.
Appears adequately carbonated. Not stellar looking for the style, but within conventions. I'm optimistic given the brewery.
AROMA: Candi sugar, amber malt extract, malt syrup, ripe plum, date, caramalt, crystal malt, breadiness, and treacle.
TASTE: Matches the aroma, except the taste is shallow. The dark fruit presence is way too reticent and weak for the style. On the sweet side, with a malt extract character that steers it towards cloying and away from balance. It's not dialed in, but approximates the style generally. Prune juice lends it an almost watery character, thinning it out.
TEXTURE: A biteen syrupy and sticky. Smooth and wet. Carbonation is off. Unrefreshing. Lacks the body and heft of a good quadrupel, as well as the fragility of the best beers in the style. Fails to elevate the beer as a whole or to accentuate specific notes; even the stickiness fails to bring any depth out of the dark fruits.
OVERALL: It's not stellar for a quadrupel, and lacks any Belgian character at all. High Hops might want to stick to their bread and butter - hoppy brews. I wouldn't get this again, and it isn't worth its price point. A pretty lackluster beer in the style across the board, but it could be worse - at least it's not medicinal.
D+
Reviewed by mactrail from Washington
3.45/5 rDev -4.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.25
3.45/5 rDev -4.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.25
Pours a dark reddish amber in the New Belgium snifter. Pleasantly tingly carbonation. Smells of alcohol and damp woods.
Sweet and candy-flavored, but the Belgian drying sensation eats up the sugar. Still, it's a powerful and intensely malty concoction. Lots of caramel and burnt sugar, with the fruity Quad flavors. This one is more dried mango but there is still a modest raisiny taste. Some yeasty bitterness to finish.
This is a little hot and sweet, but not a bad Quad. Tends toward cloying after some sipping. From the 22 oz bottle, one of about six they sell at the brewery in Windsor, along with six packs of two types of canned beers.
Jul 27, 2014Sweet and candy-flavored, but the Belgian drying sensation eats up the sugar. Still, it's a powerful and intensely malty concoction. Lots of caramel and burnt sugar, with the fruity Quad flavors. This one is more dried mango but there is still a modest raisiny taste. Some yeasty bitterness to finish.
This is a little hot and sweet, but not a bad Quad. Tends toward cloying after some sipping. From the 22 oz bottle, one of about six they sell at the brewery in Windsor, along with six packs of two types of canned beers.
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