Abbaye des Rocs La Nounnette (Blonde)

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

Bottle. Thick looking bronze beer with a strongish head. The aroma is lightly spiced and the flavour is quite weakly spiced and gently bitter. Overall a very average beer.

11.2oz yellow label. Woohoo!!! finally poured a des Rocs without the protein floaties, of course I left a good 2 ounces in the the bottle, but finally a clean des Rocs pour! Pours a clear dark glowing rich golden with a smaller fine white froth 3.5. Aroma is typical des Rocs, sweet malty, light grass, rich cloying lightly fruity. Flavor follows as expected except a bit more doughy/bready, would never be confused with anything other than des Rocs, rich toasted honey, yeasty. Medium bodied, lightly syrupy with surprisingly fine crisp sizzling carbonation, fairly clean. Not really interesting, but not entirely boring either.

Bottle. Pours a cloudy golden orange with decent size white head. Lots of floating yeast. A bit spicy, light citrus, yeast. Tasty and refreshing. Doesn’t amaze me, but it’s very solid.

Bottle: Murky golden with visible floaties and a dense off white head. Has that rich des Rocs fruity yeast and malt richness- plum, vanilla, green grapes (almost vinous)- very richly malty. Nice creamy body. Very sweet flavor with plum & honey, yet it’s soft and fluffy. Some vanilla, honeyish biscuit, graham cracker notes with a rich malt presence. Like a dessert- a bit too sweet for my taste.

Quite an orange blond with a shed load of floaty bits. Like doing the washing up without rinsing first. Medium white head. Fairly standard blonde but I’ve not had many recently so enjoyed this. Citrus fruit aroma with yeast and spice. Flavour is quite similar, caramel and a little hops. Not bad at all.

330ml bottle (Cracked Kettle, Amsterdam)
Pale hazy gold, lots of fluffy floaties. Yeasty and fruity aroma, with a touch of cake and spice. Pleasant carbonation. Deliciously fruity biscuity taste; baking tin - some caramel and burnt corners. Finish is slightly muddy light grains, and a pleasant bitter tingle of noble hops. Back again to yeast and spice. Very refreshing, and covers 7.5% very well. Good easy-drinking blonde.

poured a weak blond color with a huge white head, aroma and flavor were heavy on the yeast side, with lots of hay and not much else. finish was bitter, and didnt really have the spices that i was hoping for. meh

gold blond coloured sparkling body with lot of yeast particels and a white head a spicy yeasty fruity aroma a spicy sweet yeasty fruity taste with a spicy bitter finish