New Belgium Lips of Faith Cascara Quad

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 7

This ale is more like a bock. Pours a pretty yellow tan head and is reddish brown in color. Aroma is fruity with a hint of cherry and dates. Mouthfeel is close to being thick. The taste is smooth of malt.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

On tap at CLips of Faith. Deep ruby amber pour, little head nor lacing due to high ABV. Rich aromas and flavors of sweet and ripe cherries, light cocoa and leather, Belgian yeasts, some caramel, light floralness. Big beer that is full of rich flavors.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 7

Comes out of the tap a deep chocolaty brown with a thin but fine-bubbled buff head that leaves generous lacing. Aroma tempts with malt, chocolate and toffee notes. Flavor is better - caramel, sharp fruity - yes, cherry plus date - toffee, malt and semi-sweet chocolate tones that dance across the tongue, and, WHOA, an alcohol nip like a lap dog with an attitude! Texture has only average thickness, but good fizz and, yes, that alcohol bite. Add some faith to your lips - hell, add it to your tongue!

Aroma: 10 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 7

A dark ruby-amber colored beer with a big frothy textured light tan head rising robustly above. It settles eventually into a thick film aside the glass and singlet atop the body. The nose is roasty with dark fruit notes. The tasting of toffee, yeast and dark acidic fruit. Nice warming alcohol presence. Light-medium bodied and effervescent.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 7

Not what I expected from a quad. Dark copper/brown pour with a big off-white head. Aroma of roasted malts, coffee, dark fruit and alcohol. Sweet, yeasty taste with some coffee and dark fruits. A little too boozy.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 4 | Overall: 5

22 oz bottle. Pours ruby amber with a big creamy off white head that retains well and laces the glass.

The aroma is sweet toffee malts, with dark fruits and some roasted alcohol.

The flavor is sweet toffee malts and dark fruits with a lot of harsh alcohol. The mouthfeel is medium bodied with low carbonation.

Overall, a sweet boozy mess. It tastes a bit like their dubbel with a ton of alcohol.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 8

Not a typical quad; pours a deep, rich mahogony with a very tight, slight head and nice lacing. Yeasty chocolate and cherry aroma carries over to the flavor with a slight note of the alcohol. Thanks, Chris - enjoyed it.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Very clear and very red. Extremely boozy aroma, sweet and yeasty with a little bubble gum. Good balance of bitter & sweet, cherry without being sour, richly open and bready, not too complex but pleasant. Big drawback, flavorwise, is that it tastes just as extremely boozy as it smells. I wanted to like this more. Smooth but not too thick, small bubbles.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 7

I dug this. Definitely not a traditional quad or anything else. Deep malts, chocolate covered cherries, spicy yeast character and some pipe tobacco for good measure. I. Hope to find one more o these before its gone for good. 2013 - on tap shows a LOT more booze than my bomber did, especially next to some more restrained beers. Gots ta dock it a little...

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 8

Pours a reddish dark brown. Pretty light for a quad, not too much of a head, but really pretty.Smell is cherries, sweet yeasts, and a little chocolate. Taste is cherry, some chocolate, some candied sugar typical of quads, not nearly as complex as a real Belgian quad of course. Pretty tasty.Carbonation is decent but this tastes pretty boozy, really shows the alcohol. Maybe would improve with age.