Abbaye des Rocs Grand Cru

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

Had on tap at Brouwers in Seattle as well. Beautiful brown and amber color with the smell of caramel, bing cherries and molasses. creamy mouth feel and complex texture and leaves the mouth relishing the various taste sensations. Yeast characteristic that blends well and aids in the body and mouthfeel. Slight spicy character that helps to hide the alcohol.

On tap at Brouwers Cafe in Seattle. Poured a dark brown color with a tannish head on top. Aroma is malty with smells of cherries, chocolate, molasses, and apples coming through. Flavor is really malty and smooth with chocolate and yeast coming through. Delicious!

Dark red-brown colored, big lasting beige head. Lots of yeast in the bottom of the glass. Aroma has good spices, chocolate, licorice, mild alcohol and some yeast. Medium to full bodied, could be fuller with 9.5%. Flavor is also good with yeast, chocolate and spices, still somehow watery aftertaste with yeast, licorice and mild alcohol. Expected more out of this, being near RB Top50.

750, rating #350 and a lucky strike at that. Well, I’m buying everything the brewer’s selling in the commercial description, and this beer’s been rated almost 500 times as of tonight, but it would be shoddy not to at least try to find some fresh language to describe what this one has to offer. Fantastic beer. Pours dark brown, almost mahogany. Slightly geysery--you have just enough time to throw away the cap and the foil before a few timid bubbles start to peer over the mouth of the bottle. Nice thick moussy tan head, no lace, but the head sure does stick around. What’s to add to the description? The nose of cherries, raisins, peaches, dried fruit, honey, and caramel is there. It’s all beautifully combined, there’s no careless overemphasis on any one note. Cherry, caramel, chocolate, almonds, molasses...they describe the palate as well as anything I could offer. The mouthfeel’s gorgeous: coming up on thick, coming up on fizzy, but really just nice and velvety and satisfying. Everything about this beer’s lovely. Would dearly love to see it on draft around here somewhere.
Cracked an aged 750 of this--an 04 in 08, thanks, Kim! Amazing stuff, smooth and balanced and harmonious, complex and satisfying. Really took the age well.

Dark brown color with a fair amount of yeast, huge head and lots of lace. Aroma is rich malt with some vinous cherry tones. Flavor is lightly sweet with a fair amount of malt, strong tones of chocolate and cherries. Finsihes lightly bitter with some lasting lightly sweet chocolate.

750ml bottle: pours a murkey brown with a quickly fading off white head. aroma is sweet and fruity. very complex. cherries, vanilla, caramel, leather hints of chocolate, raisin/date, etc.. flavors are caramel, cherry lether with hints of chocolate. nice bablance.

Poured a nice amber color with nice head with solid lacing. The aroma was of apples spices matls and yeast. Flavor was much the same some wood flavor in there, bitter in the aftertaste. Solid beer.

11.2 oz bottle-Trade w/after4ever. Poured a cloudy brown color w/a moderate tan head. Complex sweet, fruity aroma. Very complex flavor of fruit/figs/cherries, vanilla, toffee. Very smooth w/some carbination.Thick chunky mouthfeel w/a long, long finish. Warming, but you don’t really taste the alcohol. Very good stuff-thanks Tom!!