Rochefort Trappistes 10

Brewed by Brasserie Rochefort
Style: Abt/Quadrupel
Rochefort, Belgium

bottle courtesy of bmartin08. nice extra! pours a thick brown, fairly cloudy with some floaties. aroma has some figs and prunes, and a lil dough. the taste is a lil odd and i can’t tell if it’s oxidized or is just hot and needs a few more years. it full of all the goodies, just slightly askew. but the after tasate is amazing, deep and complex. i’d like to try a different vintage now and get more of an idea of how it ages and develops.

Bottle from The Trappist. Pours a thick brown with beige head; fluffy but stays for some time. Aroma has notes of raisins, bananas and figs. Flavor is sweet but finishes dry. Excellent Quad!

Pours a dark maroon with an off-white head and nice lacing. Fruity nose. Taste of raisin, banana, pear, and plum. Notes of molasses. Alcohol is astoundingly well hidden, virtually no notes of alcohol in the taste. Thick full-bodied mouth feel. Sweet, fruity finish.

Smells a bit bready but also a bit like something that was stored in plastic too long...?? Quite dark, nice head and lacing, not really black or able to see particles though, just dark. Big bold bread and malt flavour. The biggest part is at the mid palate and the aftertaste, it fades away nicely. Very nice, though as I drink more I can taste that extra alcohal, maybe a lesser one would be better for a regular drink.

Pours almost black with a thick creamy off-white head. Aroma of earth, basement, raisins, dark chocolate and even a hint of red wine. Very warm full bodied sweet flavor of raisins, plum, and spices. Very long lingering bittersweet finish that has my mouth tingling. I really like this fabulous beer.

Aroma of black pepper and earth tones. Reminds me of a dark cellar. Very nice. Reddish/copper in color with a very thin head that lingers. Great mouthfeel with a lightly bitter aftertaste. Very complex in flavor but awesome with earthly grains, fruit and a nice hop kick. Very warming. Great beer.

Those priests do know what it is all about. I was somewhat anxious for this one, because the other two Rocheforts had impressed me quite a bunch. Well, the older sibling gets along with the family. It poured dark, blurish brown with a fine forming and lasting beige head. Some uniform carbonation at the bottom. The aroma flew into me right at the opening (as did Rochefort 6’s aroma) with pomegranate, plum, some raisins, oat, wheat, bread and a few dried dark fruits. As I turned it into my mouth, the strong licorous taste, such as a ruby wine, got all over my mouth with no shame of the alcohol it beared. Berries, wood, some clove, little banana, fading coriander and a hole lot of raisin and dark dried fruits sweetness. The bitterness came up slowly and fading with the aftertaste. Altough it is unbalanced to the sweet, it only bothers in higher temperatures. This beer must be drank at the right temperature - if its lower, the alcohol comes ou too much, if its higher, theres too much sugar. But, at the right temperature, the right aromas and tastes flourish grealty. Amen.