Cuvée de Mortagne
Picobrouwerij Alvinne

 

Bottled in 2015.

This one pours a kind of dark brown-ish color, with a big fluffy head, and lots of lacing.

This smells like pear, white wine, oak, vanilla, prickly funk, grape jam, prune, and some sweet breadiness.

This has aged reasonably well for seven years, but there is a touch of oxidation creeping in a little bit now. There’s some spicy dark fruit on the end, that sort of sherry, cheap wine like flavor that precedes the cardboard flavor. The cardboard is luckily not there yet. There’s some pear and stone fruit, with wine, some green grape-like character, almost jam-like, a touch of oak and vanilla, and chocolate. It’s got a very nice malt character.

This has no booziness to it, which is impressive given the very high ABV.

This probably would have been at its peak two years ago or so, but I still certainly enjoyed it.

500 ml bottle, kindly shared by abemorsten. ABV is 14%. Dark brown colour, moderate beige head. Intense malty aroma and flavour, oak and dark dried fruits galore. Impressive stuff.

500mL bottle with the cap coded CDM OKT 2021 LOT:861 poured into a teku glass at fridge temp 14% ABV. The beer pours dark brown with ruby highlights and khaki colored head. The head recedes to a thin ring and single layer of bubbles. Spotty lacing. The aroma is moderate in strength featuring a complex blend of musty oak, dark grape, and sweet fruit wine. The taste is semisweet caramel with immediate musty, wet oak plus notes of raisin, prune and sweet red wine. Minimal bitterness. The mouthfeel is medium bodied with less than medium carbonation and a semi dry finish. The 14% ABV is incredibly well hidden. Overall, very good and very different from most quads.

 

500ml bottle. No legible dating information found.
Amber brown colored body. Brief light tan head. No lacing.
Aroma is rich with the wine barrel, with oak and raisins, and a little chocolate.
Taste follows nose. Rich dark fruit such as raisins and prunes. Higher up is the oak wine barrel, up with the higher ABV%. Hints of toffee and chocolate.
Medium mouth feel, and presents as dry. No alcohol burn but very warming. Supportive carbonation.
Sweet and oaky at the same time, but presents hard with the wine barrel.

 

 

 

big wine character. looks like a dark strong Belgian. sweet aroma. old enough that yeast fell away. coca cola spices.port like with hints of chocolate.

 

 

 

 

 

 

BBF 2020

Smell is similar to a mild sweet wine. Palate is dominated by gentle sweet caramel flavors, but very aromatic and complex. No alcohol. It contains species and some vanilla and wood too. They are is difficult to tell apart. Bitterness is better appreciated in the aftertaste, easy to discover. The aftertaste is long and very enjoyable, also similar to a dessert wine.
It has a medium body, I found it very suitable for this beer.

My bottle says 12.8 % but nevermind.

L - dark brown, no head

S - Amazing smell with great Bordeaux red wine notes : leather, red berries, spices. Some dark fruits notes, some esters, I could smell that all day

T - Funny taste with caramel, dates, figs, a certain sweetness is balanced by the characteristic Morpheus yeast tartness. Less exciting than the smell

M - almost flat, a bit syrupy

O - An unique beer, a mix between a quadrupel, an oud bruin and a barleywine and the whole thing aged in barrels from the best Bordeaux's domaines

Dark reddish brown with, sadly, a lot of weird suspended chunks. Fizzy at first but died down. Notes of oak, raspberries, cherries, and fruity pinot noir. Taste is earth6 and leathery with a mushy old brown strawberry finish. Slight cherry tartness cuts the sweetness. Oak and cedar notes make the mouth water. Tart lemon notes dry the finish. Tastes too sweet at first, but that gives way to a well balanced tart eartiness once the initial fruit shock wears off. Quite tasty.