Gregorius | Stift Engelszell
Brewed by:
Stift Engelszell
Austria
stift-engelszell.at
Style: Belgian Strong Dark Ale
Alcohol by volume (ABV): 9.70%
Availability: Year-round
Notes / Commercial Description:
No notes at this time.
Added by benfons on 10-24-2012
Ratings: 536 | Reviews: 153
3.88/5 rDev +1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
Poured from a brown 11.2 oz. bottle. Has a dark brown color with ruby highlights and a 1/2 inch head. Smell is of dark fruits, malts, molasses. Taste is dark fruits, alcohol, bready malts, molasses, boozy and sweet at the finish. Feels medium/full bodied in the mouth and overall is a quality beer worthy trying.
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look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
Poured from a brown 11.2 oz. bottle. Has a dark brown color with ruby highlights and a 1/2 inch head. Smell is of dark fruits, malts, molasses. Taste is dark fruits, alcohol, bready malts, molasses, boozy and sweet at the finish. Feels medium/full bodied in the mouth and overall is a quality beer worthy trying.
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4.35/5 rDev +13.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
3.91/5 rDev +1.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
4.6/5 rDev +19.8%
look: 4.5 | smell: 5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
look: 4.5 | smell: 5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
4.25/5 rDev +10.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
3.99/5 rDev +3.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
From the 3 month out of date bottle, it pours a hazy brown with a lusty head, soon reducing to a ring and continent. Malt and some prune in the nose. Prune forward (to me), it is enjoyably malt and fruity. Yum! Dangerously easy to drink! Mouthfeel is good, filling the mouth nicely.
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look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
From the 3 month out of date bottle, it pours a hazy brown with a lusty head, soon reducing to a ring and continent. Malt and some prune in the nose. Prune forward (to me), it is enjoyably malt and fruity. Yum! Dangerously easy to drink! Mouthfeel is good, filling the mouth nicely.
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3.52/5 rDev -8.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
look: 4 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
3.95/5 rDev +2.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.88/5 rDev +1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
Garnet-tinged nut brown with lumpy ecru head. 4
Walnut oil, dates, and aged rum barrels. 4
Chocolate-covered cherries, earth, banana chips, raisins, butter toffee, hint of ginger, and barky end. 3.75
Not quite medium, fizzy, some cling. 3.75
A Trappist at nearly 10% that’s short-dated - figure that one out. At any rate, this is about 2 years past “expiry,” which should make it mellow. So a bit disappointing that it’s so jumpy - fizzes like a dubbel more than a quad. And while it ticks the right boxes, also lacking the depth of flavour that Kaiser Blue or other champions of the style would bring. Nice, but doesn’t deserve to be called Trappist. 4
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look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
Garnet-tinged nut brown with lumpy ecru head. 4
Walnut oil, dates, and aged rum barrels. 4
Chocolate-covered cherries, earth, banana chips, raisins, butter toffee, hint of ginger, and barky end. 3.75
Not quite medium, fizzy, some cling. 3.75
A Trappist at nearly 10% that’s short-dated - figure that one out. At any rate, this is about 2 years past “expiry,” which should make it mellow. So a bit disappointing that it’s so jumpy - fizzes like a dubbel more than a quad. And while it ticks the right boxes, also lacking the depth of flavour that Kaiser Blue or other champions of the style would bring. Nice, but doesn’t deserve to be called Trappist. 4
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5/5 rDev +30.2%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5
Wow? Heerlijke quad!
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look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5
Wow? Heerlijke quad!
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4.29/5 rDev +11.7%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.53/5 rDev +18%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
3.44/5 rDev -10.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 2.75
A 330ml bottle with a best before date of 4th December 2016, poured into a Chimay goblet glass.
Appearance: It poured a cloudy dark brown colour with a one finger tanned head that dissipated quickly but settled to a thin creamy layer with sparse lacing.
Aroma: Roasty chocolate, caramel followed by strong dark fruit, plum, prunes, raisin, figs and fruit cake.
Taste: Sweet dark fruit plum, prunes, raisin and fig. Syrupy toffee, caramel and molasses. Also a hint of banana, mocha and alcohol. Lightly sour here and there.
Mouthfeel: Creamy, full bodied with moderate carbonation and a dry finish.
Overall: It’s ok, but mainly too sweet and boozy for my liking.
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look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 2.75
A 330ml bottle with a best before date of 4th December 2016, poured into a Chimay goblet glass.
Appearance: It poured a cloudy dark brown colour with a one finger tanned head that dissipated quickly but settled to a thin creamy layer with sparse lacing.
Aroma: Roasty chocolate, caramel followed by strong dark fruit, plum, prunes, raisin, figs and fruit cake.
Taste: Sweet dark fruit plum, prunes, raisin and fig. Syrupy toffee, caramel and molasses. Also a hint of banana, mocha and alcohol. Lightly sour here and there.
Mouthfeel: Creamy, full bodied with moderate carbonation and a dry finish.
Overall: It’s ok, but mainly too sweet and boozy for my liking.
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4.94/5 rDev +28.6%
look: 4.75 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 4.75
Look: One finger white head, super dark brown body.
Smell: Dark fruits, honey, rye bread, molasses, this smells kind of like mead.
Taste: Same as above.
Feel: High carbonation, medium body, dry upfront but then a honeyed sweetness takes over. Slightest suggestion of tanginess. Really warming for the abv, no bite.
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look: 4.75 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 4.75
Look: One finger white head, super dark brown body.
Smell: Dark fruits, honey, rye bread, molasses, this smells kind of like mead.
Taste: Same as above.
Feel: High carbonation, medium body, dry upfront but then a honeyed sweetness takes over. Slightest suggestion of tanginess. Really warming for the abv, no bite.
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3.76/5 rDev -2.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Pours clear brown until the sludge rolls into the glass from the bottom quarter of the bottle. Small dense head that dissipates with a few spots of lace. Nose is simple sweet malt syrup and brown bread. Taste is also very simple, but pleasant, with malt syrup, some residual sweetness, and a balanced but soft bitterness. Overall, it is pretty likeable, but not a lot going on for a quad.
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look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Pours clear brown until the sludge rolls into the glass from the bottom quarter of the bottle. Small dense head that dissipates with a few spots of lace. Nose is simple sweet malt syrup and brown bread. Taste is also very simple, but pleasant, with malt syrup, some residual sweetness, and a balanced but soft bitterness. Overall, it is pretty likeable, but not a lot going on for a quad.
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3.87/5 rDev +0.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
Gregorius from Stift Engelszell
3.84
out of 5
based on 536 ratings.
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Look: Deep, rich brown with a creamy, lingering head.
Nose: Figs and other dark fruits. Prunes. The figs are jammy. Some chocolate.
Taste: Chewy like molasses - a monstrously "big" beer. Somewhat bloody, metallic finish that takes away from the incredible beginning. Somewhat syrupy. Full-bodied and full of contemplative prayer. ;)
Overall: Quite delicious and worthwhile! The nose is more complex than the taste on this beer.
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