Abbaye des Rocs Grand Cru

Brewed by Brasserie de l’Abbaye des Rocs
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Montignies-sur-Roc, Belgium

Bottle. Pours a reddish brown with severe beer dandruff. Floaties everywhere! Rich aroma of cherries, some apple, notes of honey and a slight sour funk. Very fruity flavor with big notes of raisins some bread,and caramel malt. Light hints of brown sugar seem to pop in and out. Has a strange creamy smoothness but a fizzy carbonation that mixes in an odd way. Alcohol is a lightly burning presence in the finish.

Bottle at Church Key in SF. Deep reddish-brown color with an off-white head. Aroma of dried fruits, caramel malt, yeast, and spices. Flavor is very fruity - lots of cherries - with other fruits and toffee also. Smooth, medium-full palate. Good stuff.

(Sample Date: 3/8/2009 Source:Other) Richmond Beer Dig. Light fruits and some spicy yeast character in the aroma. Clear dark golden with a fine off white head. Lightly fruity with a touch of pineapple like sourness. Medium body and mouthfeel.

Little to no head. Chocolatey-brown with lots of flavor crystals floating around. Smells of chocolate covered cherries and rum with hints of raisin and some wood. A Marvelous nose confection. Taste is similar with some fig and toffee. Big body with lots going on. Very nice, but a bit too thick on the tongue.

11.2oz. TONS of floaties. I’ve never seen a beer this filled with sediment. The aroma has lots of sour cherry and apple, banana, candy sugar, whatever other kind of fruit you want. Pretty sweet and malty and extremely complex, with fruits from apple to fig to banana to grape to citrus, along with rye bread, clove, and cherry Jolly Ranchers. Very tasty and complex, but the ridiculous amount of yeast is just rather offputting, which really hurts both the appearance and palate ratings - you’ll definitely feel them go down.

Ah yes.. One of my favorites from this day for sure. Thanks to pfoxyjohn for letting try this with him. Pours a dark super cloudy mahogany colour with a medium sized off white head. Tons of crap floating around this one and i loved it! It added an extra chewiness to this beer. Brown sugar and toffee were the most noticeable tasts to me with possibly a little fig in there as well. Aroma was delighftfully sweet and enticing. The body of this beer reminds me of my moms apple juice that she makes, with tons of apple stuff floating around.

With many thanks to HogTownHarry, I also think this is a 2005 bottle. Appearance: Well, I dipped my finger in and it came out caked in yeast flecks! Literally caked in floaties, dark brown body with a small off white head. Aroma: Caramel, earth tones, yeast, banana skin, chocolate, rye bread and slight alcohol. Flavour: Tangy alcohol, breathtaking alcohol in fact, malt, dark fruit, almost ’Christmas Pudding’ like, rye again with cherries, smoke and spice. Wow.

Bottle thanks to dchmela. Cheers, Dave! Amber pour so saturated with yeast floaties that I don’t know if it’s hazy or clear or what, but I can’t see through this fucker. Sweet Christ, what will my insides be like tomorrow if I drink all this Belgian sediment? Nose of nearly rotten apples (the kind Grandma made applesauce from), golden raisins, maybe some figs and sweet cherries. Belgian sugars, yeast, and some honey. Hint of cinnamon? Very sweet, but just on the safe side of cloying.