Rochefort Trappistes 8

Crushed with Jakebra. Yup. Darkness – fruits. Plums, prunes, yums, and awesomeness. Apples, apricot, honey maybe? Complex and badass.

bottle thanks to bhops. deep brown pour with a nice cream head. nice nose of malts, grapes, syrup and chocolate. quite easy on the palate with a fruity, malty flavor and a highly carbonated finish.

Pours a hazy dark brown color with a nice active tan head. Aroma of malts and fruits. The flavour is sweet, malt, apple, yeast and raisin. Very smooth and well-balanced. Outstanding.

Bottle. Cloudy dark maroon color with a forever lasting big white head. Overwhelming nose of raisins, plums, yeast, and black licorice. There’s far less flavor than aroma as it comes across delightfully smooth and sharp with a hot finish. Not the biggest flavor for a Belgian strong, but a delicious one with a warming, sticky finish.

Bottle, BB 09.07.13. Dark brown colour with a foamy, lasting tan head. Aroma of malts and fruits. The flavour is sweet, malt, apple, yeast and raisin. Very smooth and well-balanced. Alcohol is hidden well, but has still a nice warming aftertaste. Medium-bodied and not much bitterness. Very tasty and complex brew.

Pours a hazy dark brown color with a nice active tan head. Aroma is candi-sugar, belgian yeast, bread, rasins, dark fruits. Flavor is molasses, vanilla, yeast, fruit, rasins, caramel, spices. Lots going on in this beer, it’s hard to pinpoint everything. Outstanding.

Very cloud orange/brown pour. Aromas of varied malts, fruit, slight alcohol. Rather yeasty, but not in a bad way. Malt, raisin, bread flavors, solid medium body. Very clean finishing. I really don’t care for very many Belgians, mainly because I find them WAY overcarbonated and closer to champaigne than beer. This one however, was excellent and closer to an old ale style. Though I do prefer the 10.

Getting notebook online. Bottle. Lots of yeast, fruit, and spice flavors. Very warming mouth.