Abbaye des Rocs Triple Impériale

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

750 ml bottle from City-Wide in South Bend. Pours a deep, dark ruby-brown with a medium tan head with nice retention. A ton of tan sediments in the glass- yeasty. Aroma of dark and dried fruits (raisin, fig, plum), yeast, brown sugar, mild spices, cardboard, and cola. Flavor is more complex, with notes of dark fruits, raisins, caramel, brown sugar, chocolate, mild spices, cream, and a few things I just can’t place. This is an unusual one that I’ll have to revisit. No trace of alcohol in the nose or mouth despite the 10% ABV. Medium-full bodied, with a sweet, powdery, and almost tart mouthfeel. Really unique. Sweet finish.

Bottle; poured a reddish brown color with a creamy looking tan head. Alot of floaties. Aroma of dark fruit, caramel, yeast, alcohol, brown sugar, and candi sugar. Complex and quality. Flavor was very good and got better throughout the experience. Dark fruit, sugar, sweet, caramel, yeast and fruit. A really complex beer that is dangerously drinkable. Great; can’t believe it took me this long.

750ml from Total Wine & More Roseville. Pours a very chunky brown with a large beige head. Lots of chunks floating around at first... Aroma is mostly of brown sugar and malts, some peach and apricot toward the end of a whiff. Flavor repeats this pattern, but with the fruits turned up a notch. A lot of syrupy sweetness throughout. Pretty sweet, even for a Belgian. Nice mouthfeel, thick viscosity, good carbonation. Decent Belgian in the end. Overall, good to very good.

Pours a dark amber color with some quickly disappearing tan head and a lot of floating yeast. Aroma is of sweet caramel and yeast. Excellent flavor consisting of caramel, yeast, and a hint of chocolate completely hiding the 10% ABV. This is an excellent Belgian Strong Ale from an awesome brewery.

Bottle. Continuing my weekend Belgian tour, this one poured slow and dark cloudy amber brown with sediment. Foam head begins but simmers down quick with a light ring till almost the end. As it warms it gets a little dry mouth feel. Cola like aroma with light spice and yeast. Light roast with an herb like spice hop note but mild and ALC very mellow.

750 ml bottle from Total Wine in Tustin ($7.99). Pours a deep ruby/garnet color with a big three fingers of beige head. It’s cloudy with a huge amount of really big floaties. With all the floating sediment, it’s not surprisingly that the nose has a lot of yeast but also includes caramel, spice (cinnamon), candied fruit, and other stuff. It’s a very complex aroma and I’m at a loss to describe it much better. Flavor is similarly complex with notes of caramel, chocolate, cherries, spice, and other rich flavors. It’s moderately sweet and nicely balanced. Medium body with no alcohol presence and a sweet and tangy finish. Excellent brew and perhaps the most yeast I’ve ever seen in a bottle.

33cl bottle. Hazy, dark brown pour with light sediment. Small, tan head and a little lacing. Aroma is milk chocolate, caramel, sugar, rum and some Belgian yeast. Very full mouthfeel. Brown sugar and spice in the flavour. Just a touch of booze in the finish. Very enjoyable.

Oak flavors all over everything. Cherries also strong in both aroma and flavor. Looks fantastic in the glass. Hidden ABV and balanced start to finish. A non-Belgian yeasty-ness pops up and keeps it from excellence.