Ghoul's Night Out - DC Brau Brewing Co.

drabmuh

Maryland

4.28/5  rDev +17.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4

This is my 3100th review on beeradvocate. A meaningless achievement I realize but never-the -less. Served on draft at the brew pub. This is a quad made with local honey from Burnside Farms in Virginia. A great beer for a "Saturday Night."

"Ghoul's Night Out" is brown and hazy, light brown, with a nice head, relatively low retention, moderate to low carbonation, looks like a beer.

Aroma is sweet, bready, figs, mild raisin, decent malt, biscuit. The "last caress" of the nose on this is a slight whiff of alcohol.

Beer is really nice, light, absolutely invisible alcohol. A really nice beer for "Halloween". Nice figgy raisin flavors in the "hybrid moments" between the forward and late palate. A good flow and connectivity start to finish here. No aftertaste, not dry on the back, left with this mild residual sweetness and a shadow of a hop bitterness. I'd "come back" for this and have it again. I picked up a growler and plan on sharing it, unfortunately the instructions were "don't open 'til doomsday" which is only in a few weeks.

Serving type: on-tap

11-03-2012 22:21:39 | More by drabmuh

Dreadnaught33

District of Columbia

3.78/5  rDev +4.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5

DC Brau Ghouls night out on tap at Churchkey in DC

The beer pours a nice murky brown to orange color with some decent lacing and a ring of head, lighter than normal for a quad. 3.5

The smell is a mix of candied banana, semi leathery malt, brown sugar, Belgian yeast notes, sweet alcohol but no burn to it. 4

The taste is nice, but this really shouldn't be called a quad, this is a Belgian dark strong ale, ala grand cru of the emperor, but a less complex version of that. The banana and brown sugar hit, with some big sweet notes throughout, almost reminds me of a Christmas Belgian ale with sugar added. Some alcohol tastes but no burn to it, although the feel is sort of thinner than I hoped and a little more carbonated than I feel it should be for the style. The finish is somewhat disappointing as there really are no lingering flavors that stick with you, it's a real dry finish which is not to the style. Some nice hearty barley notes prevail as well. 4/3

Not a bad effort from DC Brau, on future Belgian efforts I see them upping their game. 3.5

Serving type: on-tap

12-01-2012 22:45:39 | More by Dreadnaught33

Huhzubendah

District of Columbia

3.13/5  rDev -13.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3

Growler shared by drabmuh. Thanks Matt.

The beer is light orange with ample carbonation / effervescence. Atop the beer sits a quarter inch of white, fizzy head. The aroma brings sweet malt, fruity esters, alcohol. Sweet throughout. This is more of a Belgian strong ale than a quad, in my opinion. Decent flavor, but a bit hot and sweet for my liking. Eh..

Serving type: growler

11-04-2012 19:57:36 | More by Huhzubendah