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.

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.

Reddish brown, smooth, sweet, dark fruits, yeasty, caramel, malty, spicey, wood.

Bottle, 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...

(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.