Grand Cru
Brasserie de l'Abbaye des Rocs in Montignies-sur-Roc, Hainaut, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Strong Ale Regular|
Score
7.69
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This beer is a very dark red in colour. It has a very complex, yet very powerful soul. The hops and spices involved in its brewing process only add more zing to its flavour. Despite its density, this beer is easy to digest.
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8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
One of the classic Rocs beers, deep dark brown with light beige head and very rich bouquet of caramel, chocolate, raisins, walnuts, dried orange peel, spices and so much more. Balanced, full and complex taste, a bit oily mouthfeel, dried fruits, esters, spices, deep maltiness and warming, creamy finish with sourish hint. Tasted from a 1,5 litre bottle. I have a suspicion this was originally nothing more than Abbaye des Rocs Spéciale Noël in large bottles, but it is probably a different beer nowadays? Anyway: it’s been eleven years since I had this, so I must get a new bottle urgently...
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Dec 2014
at 12:52
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Listed as 9.5% on label, and as Brasserie des Rocs. Normal quad dried fruit aromas and flavors, abrupt finish, cloying sweetness. I had hoped for better based on the overall score.
Tried
on 22 Oct 2014
at 16:42
8/10
Tried
on 10 Nov 2013
at 10:27
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
(bottle) clear very dark brown colour a with a small tan head; aroma start with a bit of soy sauce, then caramel, smoked fruit, raisins; rich flavour, bit earthy and sweet; very nice
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Sep 2013
at 16:10
8.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9.5
One of the richest and most complex beers I ever had. Taste is very versatile and develops a few seconds long after you sip. It has fruits, spices, chocolate and special malts. Brilliant beer.
Tried
on 03 Sep 2013
at 14:37
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
From a 33 cl bottle enjoyed at the beach in Avon NC. Pours a cloudy brown with an off white head. Aroma of caramel and toffee with a hint of banana. Highly effervescent mouthfeel. Creamy texture. Hits of red fruit. Complex and tasty.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Sep 2013
at 18:54
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8
Flaske fra Belgisk Bryg, delt med Kitty på hytta kvelden før avreise til Belgia: en perfekt opptakt til turnen, her er masser av aroma og smak i form av sviskeplommer, rosiner og alt som godt er av tørkede frukter. Alt er klart, inkl. nødvendig faglitteratur som Around Brussels og Around Brugge in 80 Beers!
Tried
on 23 Jul 2013
at 09:40
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
(330mL bottle from LCBO) Pours a very dark, slightly cloudy brown with slight reddish highlights and a small whitish head of fine bubbles, little bit of lace. Aroma surprisingly roast-forward with lots of dried fruit (apricots, raisins), light caramel, faint chocolate and a certain dusty, earthy yeast quality. Flavour begins with caramel and roast, cherry in the middle, woody and slightly wine-ish, drying towards the finish with some spice and alcohol and a little earth. Mouthfeel is oily and medium-full but carb is very strong and effervescent, found it killed the flavour so swirled a lot out. Was expecting less roast from the style, it’s complex and rather good but just doesn’t quite come together for me.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Apr 2013
at 19:59
7.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
0.75l bottle from Etre. It slowly wants out of the bottle this. When it gets in the glass it is a deep cloudy lovely copper colored beer absolutely filled with an enormous amount of big sediments, and it has a gigantic almost fluffy beige top that's really sticking to the side of the glass. Looks like a million bucks. The aroma is surprisingly cellar infused with dust, rocks and a cold earthy thing. It also has some fruits blended in between the cellar, the dark and berry kind. Soft nuances of chocolate malts and some dark candied sugar. I'm a bit surprised that it smelled like this to be honest, but I like the rough earthy cellar aromas. Brings back memories. Oh, it has that light as a cloud mouthfeel. It's really fluffy in texture and the carbonation is above average. Hmm.. It's melting on the tongue this. Lots of sweetness in this. It has that soft chocolate paper ting often found in these kinds of beers, more cellar, sweet lingon berries and some natural traces of alcohol. Really integrated and smooth this. Believe this is my first from this brewer. Glad it's not my last. 14.03.2013
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Apr 2013
at 23:27
9.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
znakomite piwo, pachnące przeróżnymi aromatami, kwiatowe, landrynkowe, guma do żucia, zywiczne i koszona trawa. smak slodowo-wytrawny, srednio goryczkowy, rozgrzewajaca nuta i mocna tresciwoc, alkohol nie wyczuwalny. Piana gigantyczna kozuchowa jak podczas fermentacji warstwowa i puszysta do tego trwala. mnostwo drozdzy i drobinek na pianie w piwie itp. Same plusy, do niczego nie moglem sie przyczepic. Mocny i spory dymek sie pojawil podczas otwierania, silnie nagazowane.
Tried
on 26 Mar 2013
at 15:34