Abbaye des Rocs Brune

Bottle. Pours a hazy brown with sediment. The aroma is apple, malt, and some caramel & dark fruit. The flavor is a bit stronger than I would have preferred. At first, you can taste the fruit (apple, dark fruits) in the mouth - but it ends with alcohol and malt.

Somewhat of a gusher. Shimmering red-amber with a small white head. Similar to the grand cru in flavor and aroma, but whereas the gc gets bogged down in yeast and pepper, brune soars above on wings of fruit, both dark sweet and lighter citrus. More malt than gc also helps balance the aggressively spicy abbaye profile. Palate similarly avoids the fizzy overkill of gc; it’s a perfectly smooth example of full bodied carbonation. High quality stuff here.

Appearance: hazelnut color. Medium head, yellow, dense and lasting. Aroma: dark malts, intensive smells hints of candy, honey, toffee, "manjar", butterscotch and vanilla. Very light spicy reminiscences of ginger and nutmeg. Fruity aromas like fig, plums, berries and raisins. Yeasty and cookies touch. Flavor: sweet malty start, like in the nose, the toffee, butter, raisins, berries, plums, honey and vanilla. Also, the toast hazelnuts; spiciness like ginger, nutmeg and aniseed. Truffle reminiscences and liquoriness similar to "cherry liquor" and raisins in rum. Warming final. Palate: medium to full body, oily texture and medium carbonation. Remark: aromatic and flavor complexity, sweet but balanced, good body and not excessive yeasty.

Pours amber into a trappist glass. Off-white head recedes to nothing. Spicey pit fruit aromas. Sweet from front to back with pit fruit and a dry, lasting finish.

Good head on a dark murky red/brown pour,carbonation ample.Aroma caramel vegemite,soy sauce,plum,wine notes,raisins,malt strong.Flavour dry,plum,soy sauce port or cognac like,each mouthfull is fantastic,with aswetness on the tongue of the raisins plums figs caramel like velvet,brown sugar hint.Finish dry sweet fully flavoured ,lasting.