Rochefort Trappistes 8

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

Pours dark brown/amber, thick rocky sustained head, aroma of alcohol, dark fruits, currants/dates/raisens, some dishwater. Flavor is spicy/alcoholic, sweet malts/crystal malts, caramel, dark fruits. Really nice trappist.

Pours a muddy orange/brown with a head that grows about an inch and then shrinks to about a quarter of an inch and stays there. Aroma is of dark fruits (plums, strawberries) vanilla, and chocolate. Tastes of dark fruit, chocolate, and vanilla. Great ballance of sweet and bitter. Very nice mouth feel. Good beer!

Dark brown, CO2, sweet, creamy, caramel, roasted malts, dark fruits, vanilla, yeasty, little alcohol, little dark chocolate, little spice.

2 years aged, warm bottle. Dark ruby brown, huge beige head. Very spicy, little soapy nose, pineapple, coconut, herbs and candi sugar. Intensive spicy flavor, liquorice herbs, dark sugar, roasted malts, alcohol burn, little cellar. Medium bodied, strongly carbonated and alcoholic palate.

big creamy off white head, very dense. Colour is very dark ruby. Aroma i yeasty, dark fruit winelike. Flavour is sweet, warming,but there is too much carbonation for my taste which makes hard to distinguish all the flavours. I really love rochefort 10, but this one was a disappointment, the carbonation is really aggressive an spoils the taste form me, can there be something wrong with my bottle?

Rating #250, mini-milestone. Murky earth brown pour with a heavy building carbonation to lift up a finger of pillowy smooth whitish-tan head with lasting retention and mild collapsing lacing that holds the glass longer than the center of the head. Aromas of alcohol soaked prunes, cherries, plums, candi sugar, dark pit fruits and dark mahogany and cherry wood highlights. A light body of maltiness highlighted by candi sugar and hints of cherries. Very sweet finish with hints of smoothing yeastiness and vanilla. Retains the bodyand feel but with slightly less taste complexity than the 10, while I feel like the Westy 8 loses too much body along with complexity compared to the 12.

Finally got around to reviewing this beer that i’ve tried so many times before. Appearance: Dark brown with a thick, impressive lace. Aroma: Banana marshmallow, raison, alcohol. Yummy! Flavor: Coffee, malt, liqorice ?, tofee, yeast Palate: Smooth carbonation and very creamy. A really complex beer but despite this it goes down very easy. Not as good as its bigger brother but still damn good!

Bottle. Aroma almost like wine with grapes, raisins and a bit of dark chocolate. Clear dark redbrown colour with nice soft beige head. Flavour very equivalent to the aroma and sweet. Rich carbonation. Well balanced.