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Blasphemy
Weyerbacher Brewing Co.
- From:
- Weyerbacher Brewing Co.
- Pennsylvania, United States
- Style:
- Quadrupel (Quad)
Ranked #104 - ABV:
- 11.8%
- Score:
- 88
Ranked #12,939 - Avg:
- 3.95 | pDev: 11.9%
- Reviews:
- 389
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Dec 04, 2023
- Added:
- Mar 10, 2007
- Wants:
- 78
- Gots:
- 226
No description / notes.
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Ratings by dawardster:
Rated by dawardster from Ohio
4.25/5 rDev +7.6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Apr 18, 2018
4.25/5 rDev +7.6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Apr 18, 2018
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by brewandbbq from New Hampshire
4.25/5 rDev +7.6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.25/5 rDev +7.6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
22oz bottle from 2007.
Pours clear amber with a chill-haze. Minimal retention or lacing. Boozy and phenolic in the nose. Bourbon, clove, malt, vanilla. Medium bodied with a slick, oily mouthfeel. Sweet malt, Bourbon, caramel, raisins, and cloves on the palate. Finishes warming and boozy.
Dec 04, 2023Pours clear amber with a chill-haze. Minimal retention or lacing. Boozy and phenolic in the nose. Bourbon, clove, malt, vanilla. Medium bodied with a slick, oily mouthfeel. Sweet malt, Bourbon, caramel, raisins, and cloves on the palate. Finishes warming and boozy.
Reviewed by hoptheology from California
4.34/5 rDev +9.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.34/5 rDev +9.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
This bomber has been sitting on my beer store's shelf for the last year and I finally decided to buy it. Then I let it sit on MY shelf for about 6 months and here we are. Bottled 4/24/18, best by 4/23/18. I really liked the artwork and the cork/cage so I figured I'd give it a whirl. I think I paid about $9 for the bottle. I am pouring it into a Prairie Rastal glass.
Pours a mostly opaque garnet-rust color with a creamy popcorn head of 1/4 finger, pretty much staying right where it's at. Some agitation yields a little lacing but it's short lived.
Not much on the nose initially but as it's swirled and warmed I get some raisin, dark breads, slight banana, red grape, and whiskey. Mild and complex is the best way to describe it.
I like the sweetness on this beer. I can understand if others don't, but it hits me with nice communion grape juice first, followed by more sinister vinous wine notes, and then some caramel, toffee, and raisin bread. A touch of herbal hop compliments this to provide balance. Banana is underneath all of this, perhaps overripe, which is okay with me, lending sugars and supplementing the hot whiskey barrel that is underneath all of this. The finish is lingering raisin bread and banana peel.
Feel is very carbonated first and foremost, with a follow up of stickiness, heat, and finally dryness. Sticky dryness is left after the swallow.
Overall, Weyerbacher is one of those breweries I am left scratching my head about. Why do folks hate on them so much? I'm sure the choices in the New England states are quite competitive and Weyerbacher gets lost in the fold, but seriously they make some of the best stuff I can get in South Dakota. There's a lot of breweries that we get in our distro that completely suck but Weyerbacher is not one of them. This was an exceptional Quad, and if they have more I'd gladly go back for more. If I could find this in 4 packs I would buy a case. I'm usually the guy who rates things lower than average because I put a real critical eye to things. But this beer strangely, at an 89 has me perplexed. This is highly enjoyable, and has me questioning what flaws, if any, I'm missing.
Price paid : $8.99 / bomber
Would buy again : in a heartbeat
Sep 04, 2020Pours a mostly opaque garnet-rust color with a creamy popcorn head of 1/4 finger, pretty much staying right where it's at. Some agitation yields a little lacing but it's short lived.
Not much on the nose initially but as it's swirled and warmed I get some raisin, dark breads, slight banana, red grape, and whiskey. Mild and complex is the best way to describe it.
I like the sweetness on this beer. I can understand if others don't, but it hits me with nice communion grape juice first, followed by more sinister vinous wine notes, and then some caramel, toffee, and raisin bread. A touch of herbal hop compliments this to provide balance. Banana is underneath all of this, perhaps overripe, which is okay with me, lending sugars and supplementing the hot whiskey barrel that is underneath all of this. The finish is lingering raisin bread and banana peel.
Feel is very carbonated first and foremost, with a follow up of stickiness, heat, and finally dryness. Sticky dryness is left after the swallow.
Overall, Weyerbacher is one of those breweries I am left scratching my head about. Why do folks hate on them so much? I'm sure the choices in the New England states are quite competitive and Weyerbacher gets lost in the fold, but seriously they make some of the best stuff I can get in South Dakota. There's a lot of breweries that we get in our distro that completely suck but Weyerbacher is not one of them. This was an exceptional Quad, and if they have more I'd gladly go back for more. If I could find this in 4 packs I would buy a case. I'm usually the guy who rates things lower than average because I put a real critical eye to things. But this beer strangely, at an 89 has me perplexed. This is highly enjoyable, and has me questioning what flaws, if any, I'm missing.
Price paid : $8.99 / bomber
Would buy again : in a heartbeat
Rated by pathman from Ohio
4.5/5 rDev +13.9%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.5/5 rDev +13.9%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
05/10/20 bottle @ home (2011 release)
May 10, 2020Reviewed by Tony210 from New Jersey
3.59/5 rDev -9.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.59/5 rDev -9.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Pours a medium copper color, minimal head. Sweet malty aroma, honey, light barrel. Flavor is fruity,malty, molasses. Thick and syrupy, full bodied. Overall it is ok, this bottle is at least 4-6 years old, it aged fairly nicely.
5/3/20
Bomber, no date, at least 4 years old
3.5 rating
May 03, 20205/3/20
Bomber, no date, at least 4 years old
3.5 rating
Rated by AvengeTheRavel from Connecticut
4.6/5 rDev +16.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 5 | feel: 4 | overall: 5
4.6/5 rDev +16.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 5 | feel: 4 | overall: 5
This is one of my favorite beers (based on the taste), when it is actually available and i can find it.
Aug 30, 2019Reviewed by bbtkd from South Dakota
3.89/5 rDev -1.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.89/5 rDev -1.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Weyerbacher Blasphemy Quad, 11.8% ABV. Pours dark brown, with a half finger of tan head. Nose is moleasses and grapes/wine/dark fruit. Taste follows, some sweetness, some alcohol taste, with a slight bitter close. Good mouthfeel. Overall very good.
Jan 09, 2019Reviewed by Bouleboubier from New Jersey
3.83/5 rDev -3%
look: 3 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.83/5 rDev -3%
look: 3 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
(750 ml bottle, probably most recent release... poured into a snifter)
L: crystal-clear, ruby red liquid; very little foam on pour (not at all unusual for a Weyerbacher beer as of late)... after a minute, all traces of foam are gone, leaving it to look like a red-brown fortified wine
S: strong red wine dominant, subtle vanilla barrel character coloring... smells straight up like red wine for awhile; dark, toffee-like malts eventually poke through... nice aromas, but lacks punch without foam
T: rich, concentrated malt base - caramel, dried berries, hint of chocolate... dried fruits and vanilla, caramel cookie/chew emerge in the finish... aftertaste is moderately dry but carries lingering notes of med-dark caramel malt, brandy-like booze note, and a booze/wood derived mildly spicy/tannic bitterness
F: medium sagging body, stretched oily viscosity; mellow boozy flame alight at a fixed point at the back of the palate... virtually no carbonation, no tickle, flows still - but not a terribly big deal here
O: not too bad considering how off the wall strong Weyerbacher ales have been as far as alcohol profile / solvent-like phenols... honestly, this was the best (-tasting, >8% abv) beer of theirs I've had in quite awhile, however, the consistent raw/rough alcohol character and absence of foam structure/retention in their line is alarming... a bottle this size is a must-share - no reason to do it alone
Nov 21, 2018L: crystal-clear, ruby red liquid; very little foam on pour (not at all unusual for a Weyerbacher beer as of late)... after a minute, all traces of foam are gone, leaving it to look like a red-brown fortified wine
S: strong red wine dominant, subtle vanilla barrel character coloring... smells straight up like red wine for awhile; dark, toffee-like malts eventually poke through... nice aromas, but lacks punch without foam
T: rich, concentrated malt base - caramel, dried berries, hint of chocolate... dried fruits and vanilla, caramel cookie/chew emerge in the finish... aftertaste is moderately dry but carries lingering notes of med-dark caramel malt, brandy-like booze note, and a booze/wood derived mildly spicy/tannic bitterness
F: medium sagging body, stretched oily viscosity; mellow boozy flame alight at a fixed point at the back of the palate... virtually no carbonation, no tickle, flows still - but not a terribly big deal here
O: not too bad considering how off the wall strong Weyerbacher ales have been as far as alcohol profile / solvent-like phenols... honestly, this was the best (-tasting, >8% abv) beer of theirs I've had in quite awhile, however, the consistent raw/rough alcohol character and absence of foam structure/retention in their line is alarming... a bottle this size is a must-share - no reason to do it alone
Blasphemy from Weyerbacher Brewing Co.
Beer rating:
88 out of
100 with
996 ratings
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