Abbaye des Rocs Grand Cru

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

Deep brown in colour with red shine and fluffy beige foam. Aroma is sweet and malty with hints of fruits and some touches of porto. Taste is smooth, malty, sweet and fruity with touches of yeast and pepper.

Bottled. Pours cloudy, with an unusual amount of yeast floaters. The aromas are of apple, raisin dough. The taste are of sour apple and cherry. It’s almost chunky with the yeasts which seem to stay in suspension, and adds a lot of sour flavor. It has a long sour finish. I had high hopes after reading some other reviews, but don’t feel it lives up to its potential.

Pours a muddy apple cider brown with yeast floaties. I tried hard to avoid the floaties but it wouldn’t allow a clean pour. Nose is tepid. Where is the damn nose? Some estery yeasty notes and faint typical abbey components are there. On the palate it is very estery/yeasty, reminiscent of German hefe-weizens that are estery/yeasty. Palate has an interesting creme malt profile with some fresh paint flavours in there too. Interesting. Finish is cloyingly sweet. Hmmm.

Excellent beer to enjoy with a fine meal, or in front of a fire. Pours dark with a beige head; taste is sweet, but not cloying; and rich. Aroma is enough to spend a night analyzing during lulls in conversation. It’s full of caramel, candi sugar, and dark fruits; great for dessert. Fantastic.

Pours a chunky dark amber with a compact light brown head. Aroma is full: Of molasses, honey, brown sugar, cream, dark fruit (prunes). Nice. I like the aroma. Flavor repeats the aroma theme, but with the addition of a slightly astringent taste. Still good flavor though. Full mouthfeel, sticky finish. Not quite as good as I’d hoped for, but still pretty enjoyable. Overall, very good.

11.2oz bottle from grape & gourmet. pours a hazy, chestnut brown with a thick, light khaki head and solid lacing. aroma is very nice with dried fruit notes of apricot, cherry, prune, and raisin with belgian yeast, clove, and a hint of toffee malts. flavor is delicious with big, mildly sweet caramel malts, toffee, and hints of cedar wood with roasted malts, yeast, light belgian spice notes of cinnamon and clove, and touches of tart, dried cherry, apricot, and plum. palate is medium bodied with fine, crisp carbonation and a pleasantly sweet finish. overall, a very nice belgian strong.

75cl Bottle. Deep reddish brown colour, lots of typical AdR floaties, dense beige head. Aroma of dried fruits, yeast, lots of sweet malts, some port wine/raisins. Flavour is sweet, malty, dried dark fruits, some yeast, light spicy, a bit of roasted malts, caramel, light spicy bitter finish, but mostly sweet. Medium to fullbodied.