Abbaye des Rocs Grand Cru

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

Wonderful and aggressive aromas of sweet cherries, peaches, honey, nectarine, ginger. The caramel-colored beer loses most of its substantial head. Lacing climbs the glass. Fruit on the palate, with good nutty caramel finishing, but tastes natural in some way. Bright fruit and a drying, but closed finish. A really good belgian strong.

The aroma is very complex. It has raisins, prunes, figs, brown sugar, bananas, spices, yeast, and biscuits. The appearance is purple brown with a medium, foamy head. The flavor is sweet with all the elements from the aroma and a lightly bitter finish. The palate is creamy. This is a nice beer with the alcohol well hidden.

Deep clear copper pour, huge light tan head that lost support quickly. Dark fruity aroma, some earthiness, and a little spice also noted. Medium body with a bit of stickiness. Sweet fruit flavors, some brown sugar, very limited hop presence.Fisnish is sweet, although some lingering astringent bitterness prevnets it from being cloying. Every sip seems to bring to mind some other aroma or flavor.

RATING 500! chesnut brown/reddish appearance with nice carbonation and medium, off-white head...aroma of prune, figs, raison and caramel...flavor is of caramel, cream, prune, spice, banana, bread...wonderful sweet malt finish...perfect palate

Pours murky brown with amber hue, thick tan head and visible sediment. Deep fruity aroma. Sweet & fruity begginning with a peppery touch and a slight alcohol warmth. Suggestion of sweet raisin, fig and a hint of caramel. Long smooth and plesant finish with a light, tingly, almondy dryness.

Aroma of cherries and plums. Mahogany amber color with a vigorous tan head. Starts a bit thin, but the dark fruit is there, with a definite cherry hint, then chocolate hits the tops of the tongue and mouth, then a decent amount of bitterness - balances the slight sweetness I didn’t mention. However, the chocolate hangs on as well. The overall complexity diminishes the 9.5% alcohol so it does not interfere with the enjoyment. Extremely wonderful.

This has a sour maple aroma. It pours amber, but is chunky as shit. The flavor is citrus, sour, & maple. It has a tingly mouthfeel, but I was disturbed by the chunks.

Thanks Secret Santa for this 750 ml! Pours rich reddish brown with big rocky head that hung around. Rich forward aroma, figs macerating in brandy. I don’t get the cherry, and also no chunks as others have noted. (Maybe I poured gently.) Drank this at room temp and the flavor was big and dry, pruney dried fruits with lots of honey and alcohol, vinous notes and molasses in the dry finish. I felt like I should be smoking a cigar with this. It made all my friends say, "Hooooooo!" with startled and not entirely unpelasant expressions on their faces. (They had just been drinking Goose Island 312, so that was a bit of a switch.)