Converging Fractals Barrel-Aged Belgian Quadrupel

Introducing Converging Fractals - a blend of Belgian-style Quads aged in French VSOP brandy and vanilla brandy barrels. This is the next beer in the Temporal Void Series, an exploration of strong barrel aged beers. This iteration of the "Fractals" base beer combines two quads, similar in profile and complimentary to each other. First, the base beer. A quad brewed in the winter of 2021. The largest grain bill to ever fill Container's mash tun, consisting of European pilsner and pale malt from Malterie Franco Belges. They took a historically accurate approach to the base beer and avoided crystal malts - the colour of the beer comes entirely from the dark candi sugar and the long boil - 8 hours! They also added some raw sugar in the form of piloncillo, raw cane sugar from Mexico and El Salvador, and jaggery, a mix of date, palm, and cane sugar from India. This resulting base beer fermented with a yeast strain cultivated from a European Trappist monastery known for this style of beer. For this blend, they chose two complimentary brandy barrels - one from France that held VSOP brandy, full of floral and stonefruit notes, and the other from the US, that held a grape brandy infused with vanilla. Crafted in Vancouver, BC