Abbaye des Rocs Nuits Blanches

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

Bottle 33 cl. Courtesy of fonefan. Pours a clear reddish amber wiith a huge pinkish head. Tart aroma with the black currant shining through. Surprisingly light body, tart and dry black currant fruitiness. Ends dry also. 021009

Bottle off Octo’s shelf. Aroma blackcurrant Starburst, yoghurt and apple skins over earthy pineneedle, baked beans, menthol and honey. Murky and pinkish with a fine head subsiding to a collar, condition tingling and slight. Opens sourish and fruity, but doesn’t shake off that dense, earthy bean and wholemeal yeastiness. Some retronasal vanilla and oaky notes. The yeast doesn’t suit the fruit here, when some crisper lambic edge might have really worked. Messy and jarring, neither farts nor shits itself...

Bottle at De Bierloods, Adegem. Mahogny colour with red notes and a steady tan head. fruity aroma, hints of raisins, plums and even chocolate. Cassis flavouvours blend with yeastiness. Well-balanced. A fruit beer that works.

A bottle 0.33L tasted at One Pint Pub. Blackcurrent in the nose. Slightly hazy reddish brown colur. Beige head. Slightly strawberries and blackcurrent in the taste. Mild hops.

330ml bottle (One Pint, Helsinki, Belgian Weeks 2009) - shared by JK54b - thanks! (And donated to mjs after we’d done a ’Danish’ tick.)
Hazy reddy brown. Savoury gravy aroma to me with a blackcurrant twist, strawberry aroma to Anna. This is just blanche with added juice, not well integrated. Thin. No hint of any alcohol, amazing for 7.5%. However, it does nothing for me. There’s nothing particularly wrong with it, it’s just about as interesting as melt-water.

(Bottle, thanks FatPhil, at One Pint Pub Belgian weeks ’09) Dark brown and hazy. Small white head. Cough mixture and bouillon in aroma. Full bodied and dry palate with medium carbonation. Cough mixture, berries, malts, sweetness and bitterness in taste, Awful. A bad bottle perhaps.

33cl bottle Hopduvel. Pours deep red & brown. Head is white with a hint of pink in it. Very special aroma, cassis obviously. Also blackcurrant and raspberry. Salty in the mouth. Good balance between sour and sweet, for sure the sourest AdR beer.

Bottle bought at Beerplanet, Bruxelles. Pours muddy amber reddish with the most creamy head ive ever seen. Nose is sweet and sour of cassis, wheat and yeast. Smooth mouthfeel and carbonation Herbal fruityness, close to picking up some liquorice. A fruitbeer unlike anything Ive tasted before. Quite interesting. Ends dry with sour cassis tingling my cheek.