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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9.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 10
Texture 8
Overall 9
0.75 l bottle, one year old bottle - best before 2004, 9% ABV. Aroma of Raisins in rum, caramel, yeasty wood, port, a bit lemon. Dark chestnut brown coloring, impressive creamy tan head. Flawors are dark and wooden: A bit brown sugar, christmas spices, a bit citrus, cedar notes. The spicy aftertaste peters off nicely, but a little bit too quick. Body could be a little bit more powerfull. Very nice - this is really what a christmas beer should be like. Reading the other reviews it seems like lagering this beer for a year does it a lot of good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Dec 2003
at 13:29
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
A cloudy amber beer with a fantastic light brown head. The aroma is sweet malty with notes of caramel, yeast and cloves. The flavor is great; sweet malty with notes of cloves. If I should come up with one negative point, it would be, that the beer is a little too sweet.
Tried
on 30 Nov 2003
at 13:47
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Dense creamy head, brownish; deep dark brown with reddish shine. Extremely powerful punch of fruit, alcoholS and esters (plums, grapes, blueberries,raisins, chocolate/mole, orange, pears...) in the nose. Gingerbread - or hot fruit punch. Sweet taste, with a mild-bitter edge; gingerbread, spicey. Citruszest finish, pepery, ginger. Very creamy mouthfeel, velvety. Loads of alcohol & fusels, alcoholburn, warming. Aftertaste of brown candi-sugar & orange brandy. Typical - liquid X-mas pudding and the rest. But definitely satisfying and complex enough.
Tried
from Can
on 18 Nov 2003
at 13:52
9.1/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 10
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
2012-08-30, bottle, 8-4-8-4-16=40
L102114982 bb 2013-09-16, possibly 2 years old
The bottle is slowly gushing; the color is dark brown, with large head, more frothy than usual, and too many pieces of sediment in the glass. Mellow and complex aroma of malt and caramel, with delicate esters and alcohol. Good body strength, although the extra fermentation in the bottle may have eaten some sugar; good malt and caramel flavor, with a chocolate hint; moderate residual sweetness; the bitterness is quite low, but enough for this beer; mild alcohol perception in the end, and possibly a trace of oxidization.
Perfectly mature, very good.
2003-10-26, bottle, 10-5-9-4-17=45
Beautiful amber color; generous rocky head. Wonderful aroma, deep, of malt, wood, cellar, spices… vinous. Good body structure, malty, balanced by a pleasant sour note, and a late light sweetness. Very good final as well, balanced.
2003-01-12, draught, 8-5-8-4-16=41
Red-amber color. Walnut, malt and caramel nose; slightly spicy. Balanced, powerful, well malty, a lot of caramel. Missing some originality, just an interesting light fruitiness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Jan 2003
at 14:36