Abbaye des Rocs Blanche des Honnelles (Blanche Double)

Brewed by Brasserie de l’Abbaye des Rocs
Style: Belgian White (Witbier)
Montignies-sur-Roc, Belgium

Bottle at the Manchester Winter Ales Festival. The best Wit this drunken novice knows. Fucking awesome.Less wit than a wit, which is right up weasel alley. Great brewer in my eyes, loved this.

Pours a hazy golden brown color with a large fluffy white head. Aroma is light and lemony and yeasty. Flavor is more or less the same... a very good beer though. 1 pt. 9.4 oz. bottle.

2008-02-01. Bottle. Hazy golden yellow body with a modest white head. Lightly yeasty whear aroma is sweet with tart wheat accents. (7+) Sweetish flavour with a wheaty character overall. Smooth average to medium palate. Alcohol is all but invisible. Simple yet effective this is a very solid wheat beer. I am surprised too that it hides the alcohol so well since other wheat beers I have tried that were on the strong side tend to show it less elegantly. Rather nice.

Bottle shared with jerc, mabel, blankboy & mds - courtesy of mabel. Very hazy light gold with a fairly large white head. Aroma of tropical fruit, lemon zest, coriander and yeast. Soft mouthfeel. Nice flavour of orange & lemon, coriander, peppery yeast, with a moderately bittered finish. Unique, and quite good.

33 cL bottle. Pours hazy yellow with a little and lacing white head. Aroma is mild cornish and lemonish, slight wheaty. Fresh fruity wheat flavour with a solid level of coriander. Medium sweet and light citric. Ends smooth yeasty mellow yet fresh lemonish too. Nice brew.

25.4 bottle, in hefe glass, golden orange color, big foamy head and lemony flavor, extra alcohol is a nice plus, more carbonation than most wheat, I really liked this one.

Best before end of 2008; Sampled January 2008
Lots of carbonation causes this beer to foam up as I pop the cap, not so fast that I am not able to easily get this into my glass though. The beer is topped by a frothy, four-finger thick, pale, off-white colored head. The beer is a brilliantly clear, light honey color that shows a beautiful, polished, bright copper hue when held up to the light. Aromas of honey-like malt, sweet & grassy grain and a touch of crushed soda cracker notes round out the malt character. Spicy notes of orange zest, ginger, white pepper and citrusy coriander play quite a big role in the aroma. The combination of citrus and coriander definitely play the most prominent role in the aroma.

The beer is quite effervescent still as it foams up upon crossing my lips and hitting my tongue. Lightly sweet, honey like malt notes intermingle with ample citrus notes. The beer is quite light and refreshing with all of the carbonation, but underneath this the beer sticks to the mouth just a bit; letting you know that this is not your typical Wit. Grassy grain notes mix with a light herbal spiciness and a very clean, coriander note in the finish. By clean coriander I mean it does not have that earthy, exaggerated spice note that low quality coriander does. Though as the beer warms this actually changes quite a bit; the coriander not becomes much more dominant and actually a bit too much of it is present.

As the beer loses its peppery carbonation it gains a little body and definitely becomes a bit sweeter. Not a bad beer, it certainly has a much larger flavor profile, along with increased alcohol, than your typical Wit, but for some reason I am not all that enamored of this. Some how it seems a touch flabby and it has lost some of that quaffability that I would like for a Wit to have.

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Feb. 2006 - Beer poured typical witbier appearance but nice head. Mouthfeel was nice and smooth. Flavor was citrusy and spicey...very mild...extremelly drinkable. I’m sure I can find a comparable wit for less than $8 a bomber, though.