Abbaye des Rocs Triple Impériale

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

When I poured this I knew I was in for a treat. Just the sight of it proposed a unique brew to be reckoned with. When they say brewed for a king, it’s right on the money. This is the epitome of Belgian decadence. Pours dark honey w/ a full rise semi creamy froth. Aromas of candied gravel and fruited spice. Full nectar w/ soft residual effers. Flavors are fuller than your usual Tripel with banana, stone fruit, spice, honey, vanilla, and heavy cream. This is truely awsome. Well balanced, no alcohol detection though it’s 10%, wow! Not too sweet, not to dry. This is the perfect brew when you’re trying to get away from the malted hop bombs but still want to overindulge. For as big as it is, it is a refined brew. I am at a new level of awareness from this point on.

Bottle, purchased at Stateline @ the De/Md border. 750ml bottle. Pour is deep brown with generous amounts of yeast and other sediments. Could be the best pour ever seen, which increases overall impression. Mouth is medium to full, in no way ’boozy’. Sophisticated and refined. Flavors are complex, inviting and warming, dark fruits, earthy, and yeast. A drink fit for the Gods of Gods (Rating = 4.85)

Bottle... this is not a beer - it’s an experience. Pours a light brown color with a light brown head. Sweet aroma. Fruity flavor - something tropical (papaya?). One of the best beers I’ve ever had. Simply great!

Dark, brown, chocolaty, sweet. It makes me think of doppelsticke, actually. I knew the bartender was wrong we he tried to tell me this was a tripel by Bernadhus, so I’m glad I found the owner, found out the truth and ordered it. Fantastic, truly fantastic.

Plummy dark brown with big yeasties dropping to the bottom like fish food. Cap is dense, growing with a firm foamyness colored of yellowed taupe with a dusted cinnamon brown center. Intricate lacing coats in tiny dots and other bigger cobweb webbings. Aroma comes across pretty thick with big fruits and light spices. Lush and booming, yet soft and delicate as bread. Spicy dates and figs coated in oily earthy seeds of black licorice, poppy, pepper, ginger, and corriander. Small inticingly little tid bits of orange and raisin oil along with some touches of tobacco bring more complexities as it sits. Flavors are big too; thick, lush, full body, favorable breadyness about its weight. Dark fruits decorate most of the tastes with rich and oily dates, figs, and raisins. Some dark orange touches the finishing qualities. Nicely handled and mild toned spices decorate the areas where the fruits leave off. So very well placed and a perfect compliment to the fruits. Cracked pepper, black licorice, ginger root, smokey vanilla, and tobacco are all put lightly in there place as not to distract from the fruit cake thickness. Big full body, lush, rich, tender, fruity and spicy, oily in some respects closer to the leftover finishing characteristics. Very actively full from start to finish. Boisterously so. A truly enjoyable sipper. Take your time with this one, its worth it. Extravagantly fantastic stuff!

Absolutely love this ale. Totally different than other BSA’s, but overall, its just so enjoyable. VERY malty ale, lots of overripe fruit, plums. raisins, dates, yeast in the nose and flavor. Very balanced. Mouthfeel is smooth and not too much alchohol burn for a 10%er. Very well done!

Thanks to my friends Paul and John at the Bodega for the sample of this! very fruity, caramely, malty aroma. Nice frothy head and lace. Hazy dark amber color.Very sweet with yeasty overtones. Lots of fruitiness, berries, caramel, very little sign of the alcohol. Nice sweet finish. Killer beer!

Bottle. Huge chunky floaties in the bottom which for the most part I decanted. Beautiful thick brown with 5 mm pefrect, spongecake beige head. Coriander licorice sweet n spicy sauce arome is powerful. It has a very nice touch, a delicate balance. An excellent woody licorice pinish. That’s preceded by a bittersweet licorice bark coriander seed with medium body. Not overpoweringly hot, though detectably strong. Unlike many belgian strongs they clearly didn’t just dump in maximum amounts of ’special’ ingredients, the combination here is artful. It’s full of dark fruits and humidor wood, fruity like a sangria, reminiscent of one of my favorites, the trois pistoles. This is certainly a beer I must become better friends with.