In an earlier post I mentioned that Wally Liquors is carrying White Birch Beer. You didn't think that I just noticed that and failed to pick some up, did you?
This time around I grabbed their Quad. It's a Belgian Ale, but not in the intensely sour way that some Belgian beers are. This is well balanced, with a bit of the Belgian funk, but more hop and caramel character than anything. Sioux's entire review of it was "It's good. . . A little malty at the end, but still good" and if you knew how much Sioux dis-likes malt you would know that this speaks volumes.
The Quad is malty. It's also hoppy. Mostly it's flavorful. Flavorful, and strong. In fact another testament to it's flavor (and the power there of) is that you don't really notice the 11% abv until the very end of a sip, and then the alcohol burn is mistaken for a clean almost minty flavor. ( or perhaps I swallow too much mouth wash . . .)
This is a meat beer. Rich flavorful steaks. With steak sauce, and garlic mash potatoes. and a cigar. I'm going to have this again and pair it with a cigar . . . but now I'm going to go to bed. This is one bomber (22oz bottle) that will get you bombed.
I'm going to rate this a 4.7, and recommend that you try some soon. They only made 900 bottles of this batch . . . and I can confirm that there are not more than 899 left.
