Abbaye des Rocs La Montagnarde (Ambree)

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

Bottle. Slight clovy aroma. Dark golden colour, slightly cloudy. Small creamy head. Quite sweet flavour, dried fruit, apricot? Good body.

8 May 2004 - Intense spicy hop fruit malt aroma. Cloudy light brown colour. Sweet hoppy apricot malt flavour. Medium body and lingering hop taste.

Bottle. Copper colored beer with huge, creamy head with excellent retention. Wonderful aroma of chewinggum and apples.Sweet, malty, light flavor with perfumy notes and complex, almost artificial flavor. It is heavily carbonated. An elegant and complex beer, that is almost too much goodness at once.

Big, gassy head and cloudy old-gold colour. The aroma was yeasty and citric, possibly lemon curd, but there were other notes too: once I caught something vegetal. Tomatoes or marrow, perhaps. The flavour was orange marmalade: sweet with a mid-bitter finish. Slightly too much fizz for me. A very good beer from l’Abbaye des Rocs, though I preferred their Altitude.

The aroma was honey with flourals and alround outstandingness. Taste is a bit unbalanced and carbonation could have been less.

Orangé vers le caramel en couleur, vêtu d’une belle mousse beige pâle, très crémeuse et pleinement persistante. Pendant que je la contemple, une armée de sédiments en profite pour s’agiter vigoureusement dans tout mon verre. L’acidité est la première composante qui attire l’attention au nez mais elle abrite une bonne dose de caramel brûlé ainsi qu’une multitudes d’esters très fruité variant de la fraise à l’abricot. Une franche aigreur en bouche laisse ensuite place à des flaveurs d’une gamme varié, épices, graines de moutarde, meringue, citrons, pain brun. Quelques gorgés et degrés plus tard, la levure devient plutôt omniprésente et apporte une touche de vernis plutôt envahissante. Quand même remarquable.

Bottle (330ml). Via trade with mouton_noire. Hazy amber-gold with a huge lasting fluffy white head, sticky lace. Sweet yeast and spice aroma, candyish malt, dry, sweet fruitiness and a bit peppery - nice. Taste - again, spicy, peppery, yeasty and plenty of sweet malt, it’s somewhat reminiscent of a good gold shred marmalade - enough alcohol and light floral hop bitterness to keep it balanced. Thick syrupy yet oddly somewhat watery body, very lively and alcoholic mouthfeel - quite a pleasing palate sensation. Very nice Belgian strong. Merci, Marie-C!!

Bottle. Darkish amber color, moderate light white head, typical de Rocs egg drop soup appearance. Sweet aroma, Belgian yeast, malts, a light perfumey note is also present. Taste is amply sweet, but stays short of cloying. Straightforward Belgian amber with a nice sour twang on the back end. Very well done.