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Abbaye des Rocs Brune 4.08 958

Abbaye des Rocs Brune

Percentile
100
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Brewed by Brasserie de l’Abbaye des Rocs
Style: Belgian Strong Ale

Montignies-sur-Roc, Belgium

bottled
common

on tap
available

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RatingsAverageScoreABVStyle PctlServe in
9584.09/5.04.08/5.09%99.3Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler
Commercial Description:
Abbaye des Rocs (9% alcohol vol.) is a pure malt beer, with no added sugar. The entire range of tastes is directly linked to the double fermentation, the precise quantities of malts (7 types) as well as the mixtures of three kinds of hops (Belgian, German and Czech). Its colour is a striking deep and majestic red. Its taste is rich and full of subtlety. It is tasted like a red wine with which it shares the ruby colour without having the tannin. It develops a strong sweet smell. It confirms the initial impression in the first mouthful, with a sharp body that is balanced with a certain fruitiness. It frees itself on the palate and develops an impressive depth of taste. Some traces of burnt wood are detectable, but never scorched even if it contains this kind of malt. The foretaste is very prolonged because of its rich and unctuous development throughout the mouth. The bitter and sugar tendencies (even though there is no sugar in its composition) compete and come back together to the taster's great satisfaction. It is a deep, mystic and extremely mature beer to be classed among the great products of our soil.
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 jalichio999 (502), Brazil
4.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
10/105/59/105/519/20
Nov 25, 2007  
Garrafa. Coloração avermelhada, translúcida, com creme bege consistente e persistente. Frutas vermelhas. Suave, equilibrada, ótima! Sedosa, cremosa. Carbonatação média/baixa (perfeita). Licorosa. Doce. Levíssimo amargor. Complexa, sem exageros.


 Fukito (604), Buenos Aires, Argentina
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/104/516/20
Nov 22, 2007  
Bottle at Oldenburg, october 07. Slightly turbid copper color with a creamy, medium, beige head. Prunes, slightly raisiny aroma. , fruity. Raisins, plums, nice fruity and warming flavor. Alcohol superbly masked. Mouthfeel is medium to full. Flavorfull with a sudden dry end. Satisfying amd warming strong amber ale.


 buckybeer (666), Eau Claire, Wisconsin, USA
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/517/20
Nov 21, 2007  
Many thanks to ( mcbackus ) for trading this to me. 750ml. Holding the bottle up to the light I can see about three inches of sediment floating around the bottem of the bottle. Does this frighten me???? NOPE! Bring it on!! Time to break out my DE KONINCK glass. Pours a darkish murky brown with a small head and a good amount of sediment which I have no problem with. Aroma is boozy ripened fruits, malts and mild tartness. Flavor is sweet malts, fermented fruits, yeasts and touches of oak. The mouthfeel is lively and has some snap to it. Overall it is wonderful. Imagine that... Another wonderful Belgian beer.


 screwball (802), Motala, Sweden
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/513/20
Nov 19, 2007  
Bottle. Pours deep mahogany coloured. Tan on the head. Don´t know if this one was to old but it has lots of sediment in it. Actually to much to drink the whole one. To bad!! Anyway, the aroma is strong and intense. Burnt sugar, candy, malt, sweet and yeasty. Flavor has dark druits, sweet malt and little woody. Complex.


 Beershine (2754), Traipsing Around, Cambodia
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/516/20
Nov 8, 2007    Updated: Nov 24, 2007
The commercial description published here describes the beer better than I can. I’ll add vinous. Sour-sweet-spicy. High carbonation.


 NJBeerman013 (783), Trenton, New Jersey, USA
4.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/59/104/517/20
Nov 5, 2007  
750ml bottle. Pours a murky redish brown with tiny bits of sediment. It has a thick rich, fluffy head fading into pockets of lace. This all malt beer gives off a very pleasant aroma of ripe fruits. Tasting, there is a rich, sweet, slightly woody flavor palate that makes this beer one of the tops in my list of Belgian Strong Ales.


 Skeegle (499), Maryland, USA
4.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
10/105/59/102/518/20
Oct 29, 2007  
Except for it feeling slightly chemicular and stringy in your mouth this beer is perfect in every other way. It tastes like complex sugared beer-cider. Awesome


 downender (2633), Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
4.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/59/104/517/20
Oct 20, 2007  
330ml bottle. Opaque red-brown colour with a big, off-white head that left -plenty of lacing. Aroma had plenty of caramel malt with some accompanying yeast, and apricot and citrus hops. the flavour was also sweet, with plenty of molasses, orange and dark fruit. The finish was dry and long. Excellent all round.



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