Abbaye des Rocs La Montagnarde Altitude 6

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

Hazy golden/apricot color with a great lasting white head. Creamy aroma with vanilla, some plum, milky notes and yeast. Quite mild malty flavor, vanilla, creamy and milky notes with some yeast. Maybe a bit thin.

Disappointing thin Belgian ale from a generally reliable brewer. Poured a muddy orange colour with significant sedimentation and a short head that quickly passed and left no lace. The spicy aroma included ginger, celeriac, caramel and cloves. Surprisingly thin in the mouth and this particular sample was dull and lifeless. Feels like it needs more body to carry the spices. Sweet and yeasty on the tongue with a late whisper of alcohol and some witbier-like sourness. Doesn’t really work for me.

Another of those orangey beers. But with the name I have a great anticipation that this will be a very good beer. Well it is a good beer no doubt but with a lot of chunkies in the glass there is a problem with the palate and mouthfeel. Quite citrusy and a whiff of perfume this is OK but not a great member of an esteemed family.

(Bottle 33 cl) Orange-blond beer with a lot of sediments and no head to speak of. High carbonation. Very aromatic and quite dry - almost like a "Tripel" although there’s less alcohol here. Quite perfumed and "herbal", but it changes character when the sediments is in the glass. Special. 030304

Sparkling hazy pale orange beer with a white head. Yeasty aroma with hints of fruit and alcohol. Fresh fruity flavor with hints of yeast and a dry finish.

Golden colour with a small whhite head. Fressh, citric, fruity aroma. The flavor is yeasty, sweet, fruity and floral. A very fresh belgian ale with medium body.

Bottled (BBE 2004)
Muddy orange color, small tight white head. Nose is spicey: orange peels and also spiritus fortus. Medium-bodied, soft. Malty with orange peels also in the flavor, slightly sour with metallic and leather flavors. Quite thin palate. Fruity in the finish, lightly bitter aftertaste. Like witbier without wheat. Quite a dissapointment, because Abbaye des Rocs usually means great brews.

Bottled: Orange coloured. Murky. White dense head. Citric, light spiced and fruity aroma. Flavour is spices and floral with some citric notes. Ends on a light sour note. Is quite refreshing, but i a bit average.