Abbaye des Rocs La Nounnette (Blonde)

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

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip

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Draught. Hazy yellow brown, aroma of flowers and yeast. Bitter throughout, could be better balanced. Nice enough.

2*330 ml bottles bought in a mixpack and shared at tasting. Pours slightly hazy golden with a frothy white head that slowly dissipates while leaving some thick lacing on the glass. Smell is sweet and yeasty with banana, cloves, very sweet overripe tropical fruits, yeasty esters, soap and hints of chlorine. Taste is very sweet, soapy and spicy with digestive biscuits, white pepper, allspice, coriander and plums. Mouthfeel is round and light to medium bodied. Finish is slightly sweet and tiny sour with crackers, cloves and lemon zest.

(Bottle) Pours deep golden with a small of white head. The aroma holds glue, almond paste, soap, swimming pool, phenols, grainy bread and a touch of apple-like fruit. The flavour is light to medium sweet, light bitter and tiny acidic with notes of glue, almond paste, bread, apples, honey and a touch of herbs/grass. The mouthfeel is round, soft and light tart with a light carbonation. Tiny citric and creamy finish. Medium bodied.

Sampled at Larsniclas testing. Smells sour, parfume and sweet hoppy. Tastes cheesy malty and abit sour and hops with a similar finish.

Bottle 33 cl, GIL. Pours cloudy amber with plenty of sediment particles and a creamy off white head leaving lace. Aroma is yeasty earthy yeasty spicy a bit soapy. Flavor is acidy fruity malty veggies yeasty peppery. Finishes bitter acidy fruity.

This beer was loaded with yeast, nothing chunky but the pour was very cloudy and golden with a thin clean head. Aromas were also yeasty with hints of vanilla and light spices - altogether pretty mellow and sweet. With a carbonated, dry mouth feel, there was a light hop presence on the tongue. Flavors of grapefruit, banana and yeast fill the mouth with delicate sweet notes. The aftertaste was full of bread and more yeast, for a lingering sweet aftertaste. Obviously pretty complex, but a light drinker at 7.5% abv.

unclear golden with loads of sediment and yeast, but no big lumps as in other abbaye des rocs i´ve had. large fluffy almost yellow head, with lots of brown particles on top. yeasty tart and spicy aroma, fruity, yellow fruity, straw, grassy notes as in a french biere de garde, seemingly quite malty sweet too. Flavor is sweet, spicy bitter , spicy sweet, yeasty,straw, licorice, one wonders what they use to ferment this kind of beer, flavor notes are definetly all over the place. Resembles a homebrew gone really wrong,but retains enough finesse to become interesting instead of yuck!.

33 cl bottle @ Brussels.
Rated on 20100719.
Pours golden color with large foamy head. Aroma of spices, fruits, caramel and grass notes. Flavor of yeast, fruits, malts, spices and caramel, mild toffee also.

33 cl bottle via brekeriet (thanks to Nisse666!), sampled on April 14, 2012
BB 04.03.14
I can see HUGE proteins in the bottle. First pour is almost clear, then turns hazy, then cloudy as hell. Yellow color, fairly big lasting white head. Sweet, glue, alcohol, yeasty, spicy, solvents scent. Sweet, alcohol, grainy, sugary taste. Bread and yeast with alcohol and solvents, also sugary aftertaste. Medium thin mouthfeel, low bitterness.
Not good at all. I can’t even understand how the hell you get so many proteins in each bottle, and seems to use way too much sugar for my taste to raise the alcohol. This brewery seems less liekly for me to go back to for more beers in the future.

Sample at ÖÖWF 2011. It poured a hazy yellow liquid with a white head. Fruity smell, sweet malty with yeast and herbs also some farm house and peppers. Similar taste with a distict bitterness. Very special spices to this one.

Bottle at klooster, delft. Thin whirling head. Hazy amber pour wuth lots of sediment. Quite nice