Founders Bad Habit Quad
ABV 9.8-10.5
3.2
173 reviews
Grand Rapids, United States
Community reviews
Bottle: Poured a cloudy amber color ale with a small foamy head with minimal retention and some lacing. Aroma of sweet Belgian style malt with some nice notes of toffee. Taste is a nice enough mix between some sweet malt with some toffee and dry fruits characteristics. Body is quite full with some medium carbonation and no alcohol was discernable. Well done overall but lacking some complexities to be on par with the best of the style and maybe a tad too sweet.
12-oz. Thanks, Kim! Pours bright burnished copper with no head to speak of and less lace. Strange aluminum and toasted marshmallows nose. Thick but not too syrupy body, very still. Gummy sweet bubble gum, white sugar, aluminum, and marshmallow mid-palate. Fairly unsticky finish, considering. Not Founders’ finest hour.
Pours a reddish coppery color with a medium white-beige head. Aroma of candied malts, banana, dark fruit and cotton candy. Taste is malty sweet with hints of banana, nectarines, brown sugar and cotton candy. Very nice and quite underrated.
12 oz. bottle. Pours a hazy amber color with a small, dense off white head. The aroma is sweet malts, fruity - I get peaches, light citrus, and light banana, yeast, and some alcohol. The flavor is medium sweet with a fruitiness that is enjoyable. The finish is quite dry and takes away from the fruit. Some alcohol is noticeable. Full bodied. I think it is a bit underrated.
Thanks to egajdzis for breaking this open...
Appears a hazy, orange toned brown with a small, off white head that fades into a small cap. Spotty lacing is left around the glass.
Smell is yeasty, boozy, with notes of peach, nectarines, apricots, caramel, and brown sugar.
Taste echoes the aromas with a standout raisin flavor.
Mouthfeel is medium bodied, fruity, yeasty, boozy, sweet up front with a semi-dry finish.
12oz bottle shared couresy of egajdzis. Poured medium and clear amber color with a small sized off white head. Aromas of dark fruits (plums & raisins), citrus, and caramel. Tastes follow with orange peels. Medium alcohol burn.
Poured a reddish amber color with a thin, off white head that left light lacing on the glass. Aroma of caramel malts, light fruits, nuts, and wood. Taste of caramel malts, and toffee, tart citrus, dried fruits, with plums, raisins, and a fair amount of alcohol in the finish.
Thanks to egajdzis for sharing this one. Pours a translucent orange amber with a smaller off white bubbly head. Aroma of dark fruits, mixed citrus, caramel, candy sweetness and some alcohol. Flavor of dark fruits, some hop flavor, citrus, caramel and some light lingering bitterness.
Date: 01/10/2007
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting
muddy orange, scant head,
sweet fruity aroma with apricots and candy,
good fruit character, drier than the aroma would suggest, nice balancing bitterness,
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Date: 07/26/2007
Mode: bottle
Source: roadtrip
pours with a creamy beige head that fades away,
touch of fleeting alcohol in the aroma and some light citrus along with the previously mentioned sweet fruits,
the flavor is still dry and fruity but now picking up some tart oaky bret character, is this a bret beer? that would explain the dryness, eventually some sweetness does show up to complement the fruits,
Aroma: 8/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 7/10; Overall: 15/20
Rating: 3.7/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: ***/4
Very heavy taste. Folks here say "like brandy" and that may be close to the truth. Strong alcohol taste.
12 oz. bottle cellared approx. 1 year. pours an orange copper color with a soda-like fizzy head that diminishes quickly and settles with little or no head. Banana hits you first in the aroma, then ripe fruit subtle toffee and alcohol. Starts with a blast of resiny sweet grape, some banana, brandy, some peppery spice, and finishes long and alcholic. Will age the last bottle 1 more year to hopefully mellow.
Bottle @ Publick House, Brookline, MA. Wow, this is by far the most unique quad I’ve ever tasted. Pours a deep red color with a slight white head. Aroma is of grapes and a mixture of other things, such as some detectable malt and pine notes. The taste begins with a bit of a grape, and then it explodes into this incredible complexity of fruit, spice, and sugar flavors with a smooth mouthfeel the whole way through. Off-beat, but a phenomenal brew. I can’t wait to have it again.
Fizzy head, amber/coppery body, thin yet patterned lacing. Walnut in the nose, then this sensational dry and sweet like apricot brandy taste with concord grapes and smooth finish.
Bottle. Cloudy copper colour with a little head. Aroma of fruit, estere, banana, and spices. Flavour of estere, such as banana, tropical fruit and ends up very fruity and little alcoholic.
This beer was quite confusing to me. I think that this was the first time I got these kinda of flavors in just one beer. In the nose there was that fake, Concord grape-syrup like smell, big soapy notes like sticking your nose in a bottle of Palmolive, rotten fruit and stinging alcohol. Appearance was a light amber color, mostly clear with a small white head. Mouthfeel was medium thick, a bit on the syrupy side. Flavor was a bunch of bubblegum, like the kind you’d get with baseball cards when you were a kid. There was some cherry-cough syrup in there, a bunch of alcohol (guess they forgot to hide it) an underlying dark bananna character which made it tough to drink. It could have been tons worse. It wasn’t good, but far from being offensive. See my review of Skibsol for offensive.
Appearance: Pours a light, hazy copper body with no real head or lacing to speak of.
Smell: Stinging aroma of concord grapes and rubbing alcohol. Quite similar to a cheap, well brandy.
Taste: Harsh and astringent, to say the least. Hints of dry, stale bubblegum mixed sweetened fortified wine paint a picture of a beer gone horribly awry. However, any amiss flavors are immediately drowned out by the blisteringly hot alcohol burn. In a word: Yeesh!
Mouthfeel: Thin-bodied, with an oily, sticky mouthfeel.
Drinkability: All of the wonderous qualities that make for a truly delicious quadruple were totally abandoned for this brew. Definitely the most un-quad "quad" I have ever tasted, and a real stomach churner, too.
(Bottle 35,5 cl) Courtesy of Sammy. 9.8% ABV in my version. Pours a hazy, amber golden with an off-white head. Distinct - but fresh - aroma of banana and yeast. Full-bodied, sweetish, very fruity - some overripe fruit - diacetyl, banana and a very warming alcohol in the finish. No real bitterness. Severely underrated - this really was a delicious brew. 310507
A hazy dark amber beer with a thin orange head. The aroma is overwhelmingly sweet, spicy, fruity, and perfumated - especially the peach note is extremely strong. The flavor is sweet malty with strong notes of fruit - in the over ripe end of the spectrum, combined with notes of yeast and light notes of spices.
Bottled. Orange coloured. Unclear. Dense light brown head. Perfumed, fruity, spiced and bananaish aroma. Flavour of alchol, light yeast, sweetness and spice. Some fruity notes. Is medium bodied. Has a dense alcohol end. Some spicy notes. Quite nice.
Bottle (12oz). Poured clear bubbly dark amber with a decent lastin foamy head, only a bit of lacing. First impression of the aroma is big, sweet, caramelized candy malt, but there is an interesting dry herbal character too - and it hides the 10.5% VERY well - perhaps a little under-complex. Taste - nice mix of strong alcohol, roast candy malt, spices and herbal hops - it never quite gels, but it’s pretty good. Light body, alcoholic and slick, nicely carbonated, a bit of a booze-bitter linger. Decent effort.
Bottle shared with tupalev -- my bottle. Pours a clear bubbly amber-red with an average size off-white head. Sweet aroma, but in a good way, not too sweet -- it’s just right. Flavour’s sweet with caramel malt, yeast, fruit and a bitter finish. Alcohol’s well hidden. Medium bodied. Very good version of the style, I really liked it.
Bottle courtesy of and shared with Blankboy. Sweet cotton candy like aroma - really nice! Dark reddish brown, decent sized white head. Really nice taste - dry, sweet, yeasty. Complex, alcohol present, yet drinkable. Maybe it was because of some of the crap we had before it, but man, this one was really really good. Certainly one of the better American attempts at this style for me anyway. Sipped during the Jacob episode of Lost!
Bottle: Reddish caramel, thick haze, some sediment, large foamy off-white head, fairly sticky lacing. Spicy, large banana bread
nose... seems more in tune with a German Hefe than a Belgian Quad. Perhaps a bit of clove as well. Spicy on the tongue... not
sharp but instead a little dull but quite prominant. Heavy banana bread as well. Where is the dark pitted fruit? Appears a
bit as it warms, but still it remains secondary to the spiciness and banana bread. Definitely malty, on the sweeter side, but not as
full bodied as you would think for a Quad. Alcohol is fairly well hidden. Big lingering finish of banana bread, cloves, and soft
dark pitted fruit. Not real bready either. Decent beer, but so different that I can’t help but think its not what Founders
really intended. Drinkable, enjoyable, but a Quad? I don’t think so... Thanks Paul for the opportunity to try this
one!
12 oz. Little to no aroma, appearance is orange and very cloudy. Strong fruity sweetness that finishes sweet as well. Palate is too thin stylistically.
Pours mahogany brown with a rocky tan head. Smells initially fruity with some lemony touches, cloves, cumin, misc. herbs and caramel. Tastes of earthy malt, oak and hints of spice. Bitterness is apparent on this one. Not Bad.
Aged 1 year. Pours ruby orange into a trappist glass. Head does not exist, but white micro skims the rim. Extreme bubblegum and alcohol aromas. Syrupy sweet tart caramel and a chalky lasting sour finish.
Bottle from JCapriotti. Thanks! Pours a deep, syrupy amber with a nice, subtle head about one pinky high. Aromas of ripe banana and fruit bubblegum dominate the glass. Flavor is woodsy bbq spice with afterthoughts of banana and vanilla. Mouthfeel is somewhat flimsy considering the depth of the appearance this beer offers. Intersting, but only in the sense of a cheap horror movie that went straight to DVD.
a lot of fruit flavor in this one. wasnt as impressed with it as i thought i would be. high alcohol content and you really dont notice that as much. the taste just wasnt doing it for me.
Pours a oddly clear amber, looks like iced tea. A quick fizzy that fizzed out quickly. Sharp nose. Explodes in the mouth, sour Jolly Rancher candy...berries and apples. Very hot so the fruit dies quickly. Cinnamon prevalent. Too hot for my blood.
12’er. Not nearly as bas of quad as has been discussed. This is my second attempt at this beer and I find it very palatable.