Abbaye des Rocs Grand Cru

Brewed by Brasserie de l’Abbaye des Rocs
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Montignies-sur-Roc, Belgium

Pours dark reddish brown with thick heead that quickly recedes to a ring. Has a fair bit of floating yeast. Aroma of candied dried fruits, caramel, and yeast. Delicious flavor of dried fruits, chocolate and honey, sliding into a warming alcohol finish with vineous notes.

Pours a nice dark reddish brown with a monster tan head and loads of floaties. Really, like oatmeal suspended in my beer. I’ve never seen anything like it. Aroma of dark fruits and caramel, with a hint of alcohol. Flavor is sweet and fruity, with a bit of dark chocolate. Really good, except that some of the floaties were a bit large when they hit my mouth, which was a little odd.

This is gonna be a rerate cause I definitely had a infected bottle. It wasn’t bad but certainly not what it was supposed to be. 22oz from Total Wine. Poured redish brown with tons of floaties as is typical of Des Rocs. Smell is sour with lots of fruit. Almost like a cross of a Saison and an ABT. Clearly infected but I like Saisons so I’ll say this is actually pretty good considering. The sour overwhelms the dark fruits but the carbonation keeps it lively which makes you wonder if they should consider doing a brew like this on purpose. Odd but good. I’ll have to rerate with a fresh bottle.

Pours out a cloudy reddish hued brown with a moderate off white head. Tons of floating yeast make this look like un-blended dry ice tea mix, despite the nice aroma of yeast, sweet fruits and some caramel the appearance is a bit to get over. Taste is complex....ignoring the yeast getting stuck on your tongue its pretty good. Flavors of sweet malts, yeast, caramel, slight chocolate and a touch of candi sugar and a slightly alcoholic finish.

(33cl bottle) Hazy, reddish amber coloured effervescent hue with a lot of yeast floaties swimming around and a medium-sized, light-beige foamy head. Yeasty, sweet toast-malty nose with caramel, light fruity accents and coriander, cinnamon and clovy spices. Sweet flavour, full bodied with a soft carbonation. Solid toast-malty base with caramel and spices on a shy fruity background; residual sweet, malt-accented finish with a present and warming alcoholic note. Quaffable but surely not for everyday use (24.03.08).

A gusher on pour. Sweet fruit esters and yeast with flowers, spices and some rotten berries in the aroma. Pours with a large, creamy, off-white head covering a murky amber body. I am a bit worried as there are LOTS of HUGE particles floaring around, even staying on top of the head. The taste is metallic and I can feel the particles on the tongue which kind of ruins it for me. I don’t know if this was stored badly before I bought it, because it has not exceded the sell by date. Dissapointed.

Pours a brown amber color with a light brown head that reduces to a 1/4 inch of head. Appears very effervescent, with a huge amount of yeast floaters that lively bounce around with the carbonation that is in the beer. Smell is sort of candy sweetness with some fruitty aromas also, Some darker scents possibly roasted malt or nuts maybe, an almost honey sweetness with a slight alcohol astringency. Taste is very interesting, surprisingly vinous flavor that I wasn’t picking up in the scent, a smooth sweet taste of honey and raisins. The floaties in the beer make for a weird texture, you can feel the yeast entering your mouth.

Pours dark reddish brown with light tan head. Aromas of dark fruits, raisins, figs, caramel. Taste is sweet, same as the aroma with belgian candy sugar. LIvely carbonation, slightly syrupy mouthfeel and medium body make this very easy to drink. The alcohol is not noticable at all. Excellent beer, but pehaps a little too sweet.