Rochefort Trappistes 8

Brewed by Brasserie Rochefort
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Rochefort, Belgium

Very fine, sweet, floral aroma. This is a malty and complex ale, with flavors of baking chocolate, cola, and hops. It is dry and well-bittered, but with a sweet, gingerbread softness in it also. Fairly light-bodied, and it is hard to believe this has a 9.2% alcohol content. RT8 grabs the palate’s attention with a lingering tingle. This is probably my favorite of the Trappistes Rochefort releases - an excellent brew.

( 330ml bottle bb 12-17-13). Pours very murky orange-brown with yeast particles and nice lasting head. Nose chocolate, rum raisins, yeast, alcohol, bread, and caramel. Taste is creamy, spicy and bready yeast, nuts, and alcohol. Finishes a little warm, very creamy and nearly overcarbonated. If this was slightly sweeter it would be amazing.

Love these brews! Rochefort, you are a friend of mine! I like the 10 and 6 a little better, but this is a great strong ale. Nice and creamy, lots of dark fruits, wonderful aroma. The only thing that I’m not wonderfully fond of is the aftertaste. I can’t pinpoint what it is, but it doesn’t do it for me quite like it’s brothers.Very, very good beer.

poured dark brown with a slight off white head that stuck around longer than expected. smelled like bread, fruit, and molasses. tasted a lot lighter than expected with a 9+ abv. very carbonated and very refreshing. no alcohol after taste either. very very drinkable.

33 cl bottle from Bieropholie, served at cellar temperature in a tulip glass. Lot L260912 10:04.

App.: Very deep copper with remnants of a tan head. Aroma: Deep sweet dark fruits, molasses, a bit of woodiness and rum, a little buttery, some minty herbals, lots of sweet malt aromas, quite inviting. Palate: Medium body, moderate but soft effervescence. Flav.: Quite sweet and fruity, lots of caramel/toffee, herbals, molasses mintiness, slightly woody, a bit of alcohol, some yeast; sweet with balancing bitterness, a little alcohol and some light tannins, all with a pleasant, lightly woody malt finish.

Certainly a bit simpler than the 10, but the alcohol is much more concealed and it is still a wonderful brew.

This brew poured with a pretty neutral brown hue. It was pretty murky - probably because I got the end of the bottle, so bits of barley were in the head and in the brew - it made it look like coffee. There was also a fantastic off-white head that lasted for quite a while. It had a pretty sweet scent with a hint of coffee and hops in it. Strangely, on first taste, the first thing I got was alcohol. This is pretty strange considering most brews will have the alcohol taste at the end. It reminded me strongly of a thick cappuccino and it ended very sweet. This was wildly different than most other high-alcohol brews that we have where it starts alcoholic and ends sweet. Dare I say: it tickled my fancy.

33cl bottle from Alko. Dark brown with at big, beige thick head. Aroma is mostly chocolate and coffee. Very complex flavor, caramel, plums and malt. Sweet warm finish. I think I enjoyed mine little too cold, hence a hard time to notice all the aroma.

330mL bottle - pours dark brown with a big beige head. Fantastic aroma of chocolate, raisins, plum. Flavour is plums, malt and yeast. Thick, full-bodied and very complex. Wonderful beer.