A blend of Belgian-style quads aged in bourbon barrels for 40 months.

At long last, the continuation of the Fractals sub-series of beers is here! This is the same base quad as Endless Fractals and Cherry Fractals, sequestered in bourbon barrels for about three and a half years.

This quad (Really it's a Quint, I think? If that's a thing (should we make it a thing?)) was brewed with Belgian pale and pilsner malts and boiled for a Very Long Time to obtain the necessary colour and starting gravity.

An addition of dark candi sugar helped it along, as well as additions of raw cane sugar - piloncillo (unrefined cane sugar from Central America) and jaggery (unrefined sugar from cane and palm sap). Temporal chose a Trappist Abby yeast to ferment this beer, as these strains are very expressive and ABV tolerant. There's a reason the Trappist monks are world renowned for this style!

The resulting beer is ripe with fruit esters (notes of red apple and a bit of dark fruit, tiniest hint of banana is present) while the barrel contribution is a modest rounding note of vanilla and mild oak-y spice. It's smooooooth.