scoth (274), Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
| 4.1 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 17/20 | Dec 6, 2008 Bottle. Pours cloudy scarlet-brown, with a medium-thick biege head. Strong malty aroma, leather, brandy and cherries. Thick body. Wood and leather flavor, fermented cherries, and a little nutty. Slightly dry and bitter aftertaste that helps balance all of the malt. psuCE03 (122), York, Pennsylvania, USA
| 4.2 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 9/10 | 4/5 | 18/20 | Dec 5, 2008 Deep deep red with nice carbonation. Smells like alcohol and cherries. Lots of malt i the flavor with some alcohol and a noticeable bitterness at the end. Great beer that deserves to be sipped. chandler0201 (341), Durham, North Carolina, USA
| 3.9 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 3/5 | 8/10 | 3/5 | 17/20 | Dec 3, 2008 Orange brown with some head in the pour. Malts and cherry aroma, with some caramel in the hint. Taste was a bit carbonated and bubbly alcohol, with only a hint of cherry. Great beer but it would have been even better if the taste matched the great smell. Block (365), West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
| 3.8 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 4/5 | 7/10 | 3/5 | 16/20 | Dec 2, 2008 Pours an orange brown with an off white head. Aroma of malts and a bit of alcohol. Taste of malts with some bitterness and alcohol at the finish. fidel (918), Livermore, California, USA
| 3.9 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 16/20 | Dec 1, 2008 Reddish brown, smooth, sweet, dark fruits, yeasty, caramel, malty, spicey, wood. fredandboboflo (1404), East Setauket, New York, USA
| 4.2 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 4/5 | 9/10 | 4/5 | 17/20 | Nov 30, 2008 Updated: Jan 15, 2009Bottle, 2006. What an amazing aroma. After smelling the beer for five minutes, I was prepared to hand out my third 5.0. Awesome tart cherry notes meshing seamlessly with a yeasty, nutty, caramelly, dark-fruity quad base, wow, what a thing of glory. Unfortunately, while the age seemed to have done wonders for the cherry aspect in the nose, the base beer suffered just a bit in the mouth, yielding a bit too much of a soda characteristic and losing some of that rich, earthy nuttiness. Perhaps a 2007 bottle will reveal the best of both worlds...10-5-7-4-14/4
Rerate 1/15/09 2008. An incredible desert beer. Cake-like, sometimes like a rum cake, earthy, sweet, rich, decadent, cherry much more subtle than the aged bottles, but there, adding to the rich, semi-chocolatey cake feel. Intense and luscious. 8-4-9-4-17/4.2 Svesse (2612), Hässelby, Sweden
| 3.8 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 15/20 | Nov 29, 2008 (Bottle, 7 Nov 2008) Reddish brown colour with firm, frothy, pale brown head. Fruity, malty nose with notes of cherries, black-currant, toffee, chocolate and dried fruit. Malty, fruity, toasty taste with dried fruit, toffee, chocolate and dark cherries. Spicy, herbal bitterness and a touch of liquorice in the finish. Slightly oaky character. Medium to full body, balanced sweetness throughout, with a warming puff of alcohol towards the end. Nice and warming beer. In short: Rochefort the Cooperstown way. yespr (12018), Copenhagen O, Denmark
| 3.8 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 3/5 | 8/10 | 3/5 | 16/20 | Nov 29, 2008 75 cL bottle at Svea. Pours hazy dark brown with a slowly diminishing tan head. Wineous aroma of cherry and roasted malty notes. Light metallic and mild fruity aroma. Dark fruity and wineous with a solid caramel and roasted flavour beneath. Lingering yeasty, fruity and subdued malty into the finish.
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