Spéciale Noël
Brasserie de l'Abbaye des Rocs in Montignies-sur-Roc, Hainaut, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Quadrupel / Dark Strong Regular|
Score
7.47
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8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottled. Reddish amber colour, small beige head. Aroma is just lovely, richly fruity and pleasant hopping and yeasting. Flavour is sweet toffeeish with some bitterish flowery hops and spices. Pleasant aftertaste of plum, spices and flowery stuff. Extremely complex, and yes, it’s a christmassy beer indeed!!
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Jan 2006
at 03:00
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Darker amber ale with floaties, and thick froathy off-white head. In aroma, cinnamon, cloves and orange peels. Wonderful. In mouth, nice mix of the spices, ginger most noted, smooth and pleasant. Rich bodied with wonderful spice balance. Bought from Bieropholie. November 2005. Mike’s place.
Tried
on 25 Dec 2005
at 11:59
8.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9.5
Bottle at Kulminator. Deep ruby/brown colour with thin tight tan head. Smack of bitter choc, some mustiness and dark fruits (damsons, dark plums etc). Bit like Rochefort 8. Quite good in mouth with softish feel and more complex fruit flavours. Very good indeed.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Nov 2005
at 10:37
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
(Bottle 75 cl) Deep reddish brown with a fine, beige head and some lacework. Dry, roasted nose with some spiciness. Lovely full-bodied and malty beer with an incredibly complex palate that brings notes of port wine to memory. Believed to be the standard Abbaye des Rocs with a higher proportion of dark 6 chocolate malts. 310599
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Jul 2005
at 16:27
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Chunky opaque brown,large lasting beige head.Sweet malt nose with plum and light yeast. Sweet malt and cherry/plum taste with light alcohol heat.There is a hint of another ingredient I cannot pick out.
Tried
from Can
on 06 Jan 2005
at 19:51
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
(330 ml capped bottle, bought at Borough Market, London.) Pours with a collossal head, beer is clear reddish brown but with an enormous amount of lumpy yeast floaties which are not dissolved in the beer when pouring, thus making the beer in the glass look rather unappetizing - you may actually feel the lumps when drinking. I normally prefer to pour the yeast in with most bottle conditioned beers (enhances the flavour IMO), even when the brewers tell me not to - but in this case it is definitely not to be recommended! Aroma is initially surprisingly mild and one-dimensional malty sweet, improves as the beer warms up - vinous notes with some toffee and oak appear. Flavour is caramelly, oaky and spicy, with a nice alcoholic warmth. Decent enough, if disregarding the lumps.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Jan 2005
at 16:00
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Sedimented chestnut appearance. Cobwebby yeast aroma with plum, cherry, peach and sweet dark malts. Spritzy carbonation and a full body. Peachy, slightly perfumey, cherryish and plummy palate with rich malty depths and a hint of chocolate. A little alcohol in the finish. Warming, rich, fruity. Joyeaux Noel, Brasserie des Rocs!
Tried
on 26 Dec 2004
at 23:32
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottled (Helsinki Beer Festival 2004)
Dark hazy red color. Huge brown foamy steady head. Aroma is quite close to "standard" Abbaye des Rocs: sweet, alcoholic, prunes, yeast. Taste is earthy, woody, dry and sweet. Very close to normal Abbaye des Rocs totally.
Dark hazy red color. Huge brown foamy steady head. Aroma is quite close to "standard" Abbaye des Rocs: sweet, alcoholic, prunes, yeast. Taste is earthy, woody, dry and sweet. Very close to normal Abbaye des Rocs totally.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Apr 2004
at 07:41