Continuing on with Boulevard week, we now come to the second session with the Bourbon Barrel Quad (BBQ). This is a Quadrupel that has been aged in oak bourbon barrels for at least a year with tart cherry added along the way. Before bottling it is blended to create what some people here call the [...]
Archive for the ‘Abt/Quadrupel’ Category
25 Jan
21st Amendment Monk’s Blood
There has certainly been a trend around The Hopry lately – and that is the fact that I’ve been drinking a lot of great canned craft beers. For the most part, they have all been IPAs…until now. On this night we moved to Abt/Quadrupel territory. I have to admit that the first time I heard [...]
15 Jan
RJ Rockers Black Perle
I’m not 100% sure of what prompted me to pick up this bottle of beer by R.J. Rockers out of South Carolina. Perhaps it was the blue waxed top, perhaps it was because I’d never heard of the brewery, or perhaps it was because it is considered a black IPA. I’d say the latter was [...]
3 Dec
Rochefort Trappistes 10
I first tried the Rochefort 10 about a year and a half ago, and unfortunately I had a soured bottle. I wasn’t quite sure if it was how the beer was supposed to taste, but I dumped it nonetheless because it was so off-putting. I bought another bottle the next day from a different store…and…MAGIC! [...]
