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Abbaye des Rocs Brune 4.08 962

Abbaye des Rocs Brune

Percentile
100
overall
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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RatingsAverageScoreABVStyle PctlServe in
9624.09/5.04.08/5.09%99.3Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler
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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 oteyj (823), Canterbury, New Hampshire, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/515/20
Aug 18, 2008  
Pours reddish brown with one finger head and a host of floaters. Aroma is cider, candied apple, molasses, caramel, and some spicy yeast. Flavor is very sweet and powerful, but not overly complex. Lots of brown sugar and dark fruit. Palate is smooth, but not overly full or viscous, and leaves a bone dry finish.


 HughConway (368), Washington, USA
4.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
10/104/510/104/519/20
Aug 15, 2008  
Bottle. Pours deep brown amber with nice tan-white head. Aroma is sweet sour fruit with some spice. Taste is deep, complex, fruit, spice, sour, wine like. Amazing beer.


 gringo332 (253), Richardson, Texas, USA
4.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/59/105/518/20
Aug 11, 2008  
Deep amber color with a good sized off-white head. Aromas are of apricots, grapes, sweet malts and light hops. Flavor is sweet, fruity and slightly sour.


 Veer (355), Landskrona, Sweden
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/58/103/515/20
Aug 10, 2008  
Aroma: very powerful. Liquorice, vanilla, semolina. Rotten pears, alcohol, green pepper (corns), mushroom. Soy...
Flavour: liquorice, plums, malt, again sourish plums... Overall sweet, musty, ’noble’ & malty.
Palate: fizzy - very creamy & fizzy.
Appearance: deep crimson orange w/ pale flakes... pale but tinted finebubbled foam.
Really not that interesting. I had higher expectations.


 MitchWayne (264), Kokkola, Finland
4.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/105/510/105/518/20
Aug 7, 2008  
Wonderful complex aroma with a taste to match. My favorite trappist so far, beats out rochefort 10 because the alcohol is hidden better here. I will be drinking this many times in the future and the lovely thing is that I will discover new things about it every time.


 gary07734 (412), Tyne & Wear, England
4.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/58/104/517/20
Aug 3, 2008  
0.75l bottle trappist glass. Medium brown muddy pour, med head. Good smell, some alcohol, malt and sweetness. Taste is malt, fruits and sweet, very similar to Trappist Rochefort. Very good.


 cmillward (442), Orlando, Florida, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/57/103/514/20
Aug 3, 2008  
Bottle. Pours light brown/amber with a thin off-white head. A snow globe of protein coagulate. On the nose strong caramel, fruits, figs, quite malty, with doughy yeast aromas. In flavor this was reminiscent of a muted St. Bernardus 8. Caramel, sweet malts, apples, other indistinct fruitiness and some alcohol. Medium mouthfeel, a longer finish between the sweetness and the alcohol. Not much hop bitterness. Decent, perhaps I was expecting too much.


Allstar (30), , Virginia, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/103/516/20
Aug 2, 2008  
Bottle: It is clear golden brown when poured. Had a lot of head to it. It has a slight sour taste to it, and also a subtle fruity taste.



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