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Abbaye des Rocs Brune

Abbaye des Rocs Brune - Belgian Strong Ale

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Brewed by Brasserie de l’Abbaye des Rocs
Style: Belgian Strong Ale

Montignies-sur-Roc, Belgium

bottled
common

on tap
available

Broad Distribution
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 Ratings  Average  Score  ABV  Style Pctl  Serve in 
9424.09/5.04.09/5.09%99.3Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler
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Commercial Description:
Abbaye des Rocs (9% alcohol vol.) is a pure malt beer, with no added sugar. The entire range of tastes is directly linked to the double fermentation, the precise quantities of malts (7 types) as well as the mixtures of three kinds of hops (Belgian, German and Czech). Its colour is a striking deep and majestic red. Its taste is rich and full of subtlety. It is tasted like a red wine with which it shares the ruby colour without having the tannin. It develops a strong sweet smell. It confirms the initial impression in the first mouthful, with a sharp body that is balanced with a certain fruitiness. It frees itself on the palate and develops an impressive depth of taste. Some traces of burnt wood are detectable, but never scorched even if it contains this kind of malt. The foretaste is very prolonged because of its rich and unctuous development throughout the mouth. The bitter and sugar tendencies (even though there is no sugar in its composition) compete and come back together to the taster's great satisfaction. It is a deep, mystic and extremely mature beer to be classed among the great products of our soil.
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Wolfbass (22), Firenze, Italy
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/517/20
Nov 5, 2009  
Color dark amber with beautiful head. In the complexity of warm aromas, the chocolate prevails. The good balanced, the body structured with points of caramel and spice. Good beer.


 scrizzz (1246), kirkland, Washington, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/58/104/515/20
Nov 3, 2009  
watery gusher. hmm. at least spew forth with gusto! Oh well. Dark chestnut brown, lighter in body than I expected. Small head. Some cola nut and Brazil nut aroma. Blissfully smooth, airy, whipped and gentle. Surprising. Sweet, brown sugar, notes of pecan and leather. Very good beer, little tingly in the deep finish.


 PJClarke (590), London, Greater London, England
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/59/103/516/20
Oct 31, 2009  
Fat malts with heaps of demerara about them. Light burnt flavours and sweet toffee give way to quite a drying bitterness. Very long in the finish with the burnt woodiness coming to the fore. Quite easy drinking but with a great depth and intensity about it.


 guyinchicago (516), marengo, Illinois, USA
2.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/103/55/103/510/20
Oct 31, 2009  
11.2 oz bottle best b 4 2010 poured lite brown with lots of floaters that rose to the top of this very carbonated brew very lively from the time i cracked the top aromas of fruits,vineger,dough and nalts taste was a sour funk I couldn’t finish the bottle it had to be infected so i will have to re rate this one some day soon i hope


tomkrat2008 (21), Bratislava, Slovak Republic
2.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/104/53/104/510/20
Oct 27, 2009  
I have to say that I don’t like dark beer. I’ve tried to find something positive about the taste but I simply couldn’t.


 cheeta (858), Langĺ, Denmark
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/58/104/516/20
Oct 25, 2009  
Wery good aroma with raisin. Large, frothy, off-white head. Good lacing. Mostly diminishing longevity. Clear, brown body. Moderate sweet flavor with notes of raisin. Medium to full palate.


 Stefano (1321), Esbjerg, Denmark
4.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/105/59/104/518/20
Oct 22, 2009  
Dark amber colour with frothy beige head. Aroma is alcohol, cellar notes, sirup. Flavor is caramel, slight alc, dark red fruit, plum, lots of candy sugar, sweet dough, slight red apple. Medium body.


 scoth (264), Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
4.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/104/58/104/517/20
Oct 20, 2009  
Pours chunky amber-brown, with a two finger beige head, very good lasting lacing. Fantastic aroma, rich and complex malt character, banana bread, sour dough and caramel apple stand out, with undertones of pear, fig, leather and hard-wood. Medium-full body, zesty, and crisp. Flavor is full and complex, biscuit, sour apple, cherry, with some grass and earthy notes. Finishes a touch tart, lightly dry, and mildly bitter. Well balanced.



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