Abbaye des Rocs La Montagnarde Altitude 6

750ml bottle (Kaisla, Helsinki)
Hazy rich yellow, thin head. Soft light grainy aroma, some gentle hopping too. First taste was astounding - very gentle grains, some creaminess, some popcorn-like corn. I know that doesn’t sound so good, but each component was delicious. Later sips were less exciting, wheatier, heading towards a wit, and with a bit of lemon. Very interesting, quite a fun one to drink. Yeast changed very little, maybe added a slight liquorice component. IMHO drink without yeast for a crisper taste.

(Bottle, 0.75 l, at Kaisla on 2008-08-06) Golden. Hazy. Largish white head. Syrup, caramell and honey in nose. Full sugary palate. Finnish Easter pudding, syrup, light bitterness, liquorice, dried plum and hint of boiled cabbage in taste. Way too sweet.

33cl, from De Hopduvel Gent, easy to drink, not complex, hazy, small head, nice brew

Bottle from Cracked Kettle, @ home. Golden orange appearance, big disappearing head. Aroma of yeast, sour apples, some malts. Dry and prickly palate, lots of carbonation, flavour is sour apples, sweet peach, yeast. Average.

In short: A bland juicy, floral and doughy clean Belgian Ale
How: Bottle 750ml, about 4 months old
The look: Clear golden body with a lot of particles and topped by a medium off-white head
In long: Nose of citrus essence and garden flowers. Taste has some soft cookie malts, some flower juice, some citrus+apricots juice, a few drops of perfume and a whole lot of doughy yeast. Something in that doughy flavour reminded me of a unbaked pancake-like dough complete with a slight egg yolk taste. Short finish. Oily body with an annoying soda-pop-like carbonation. Light mineral water taste from beginning to end. This is an easy to drink well brewed beer but unfortunately it is rather characterless. Altitude 6, Attitude 0.