Black Rocs
Brasserie de l'Abbaye des Rocs in Montignies-sur-Roc, Hainaut, Belgium 🇧🇪
Collab with: Barrel of Monks BrewingStout - Foreign / Extra Regular
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Score
7.02
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
0.33l bottle. Black body with a thin beige head that disappears fairly quickly. Dark sugar syrup comes first in the aroma immediately followed by nutmeg and cloves. Raisins and orange zest show up too such as some plums. Plums and raisins dominate the taste with notes of orange zest, nutmeg, pepper, cocoa and licorice. The finish is a bit sour. Decent beer for sure.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle. Dark brown pour. Aroma of sweet chocolate malt, licorice, some roast, smoke and burned caramel. Taste of burned caramel, roasted malt, chocolate malt, licorice, coffee and hopbitters. Allright classic stout, but was hoping for more of that nice complex abbaye des rocs character.
Rubin77 (10150) reviewed Black Rocs from Brasserie de l'Abbaye des Rocs 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
33cl bottle from Etre Gourmet web shop. F: medium, tanned, not long lasting. C: black, opaque. A: a lot of caramel, bit coffee, dried fruits, cocoa, chocolate, brown sugar. T: full malty base, liquorice, nutty, bit dried fruits, banana, figs, toast, medium carbonation, bit slicky mouthfeel, quite sweet but ok for the style, enjoyed.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Very dark beer, off-white head. Mixed fruit aroma, Flavour has light fruit as well, along with toasty malt and caramel, a little chocolate and some spice. Nicely balanced and very drinkable.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle from Geers, Oostakker. Pours hazy dark brown with an unstable, thin, frothy, off-white head. Aroma of pear syrup, prune, toffee, candied orange, dried tea leaves, liquorice. Taste has sweet candied fruit, pear, fig, red apple, prune, syrupy, biscuity & caramelly malty profile, balanced by phenolic & herbal bitter accents. Herbal hoppy finish, malty, more candied fruit, liquorice & some toast. Warming brown rum-like alcohol in the very end. Medium body, syrupy texture, fizzy carbonation. Somewhere between 'roasted' Belgian Strong Dark & actual Stout, but pleasant surprise by this 'classic' Belgian brewery.
TET (6537) reviewed Black Rocs from Brasserie de l'Abbaye des Rocs 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
An almost black beer, a head is quite big and yelloish beige. Aroma has fruitness and dried fruitness, prune, low roastiness. Taste has dried fruitness and roastiness, low spicyness. Medium bodied, fluffy. House flavour from Abbeye des Rocs is there, but the balance isn't very succesfully, the roastiness isn't fit very nicely there.
tderoeck (22679) reviewed Black Rocs from Brasserie de l'Abbaye des Rocs 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
25/II/20 - 33cl bottle @ home, BB: 30/X/21 (2020-168) Thanks to ElManana+1 for sharing the bottle!
Clear dark brown beer, big creamy irregular beige head, pretty stable, non adhesive. Aroma: banana, malty, caramel, banana peel, yeast, soft roast, more yeast, dried fruits, molasses. MF: ok carbon, medium to full body. Taste: soft roast, dried fruits, molasses, ripe banana, banana peel, some tobacco, mocha. Aftertaste: bit metallic, more roast, bit sweet, banana, caramel, mocha, hoppy finish, some dark chocolate, nice one!
Sloefmans (15338) reviewed Black Rocs from Brasserie de l'Abbaye des Rocs 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Very good creamy, irregular head over red-shot black beer. Roast, ashes, bark, dark green leaves, moss, dry, brown candi sugar aromas. Sweetish-ashy, liquorice; faint, but nice acidity and a hint @ black chocolate. Finish accentuates the sweetness. Pretty well-carbonated, almost fizzy. Not really big-bodied. Aftertaste gets more black chocolate, and warming up, caramel/toffee. Just a bit... easy. Nothing really jumps out to say "wow".
Alengrin (11561) reviewed Black Rocs from Brasserie de l'Abbaye des Rocs 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 8
Flavoured stout made by old Abbaye des Rocs in collaboration with Barrel of Monks and named after the year Jean-Pierre Eloir, the founder of Rocs, officially started his brewery, in those days the first independent one in Belgium (though closely followed by Dolle). Apparently this old but importantly pioneering and still respected microbrewery has felt the winds of change sweeping through the beer world, and having been familiar with their standard beers for two decades now, I was very curious to find out what their approach to the international craft beer idiom was going to be. Thick, regularly shaped, medium large-bubbled, greyish pale beige, slowly dissipating and eventually all but disappearing head, black robe with thin, hazy burgundy edges. Aroma of liquorice, chewing gum, caramel candy, damp earth, prunes, candied figs, cashew nuts, pear syrup, cappuccino powder, brown game stock, cloves, hazelnut purée, toasted chestnuts, 'koetjesreep'. Sweet onset, cleanly fruity with hints of candied fig, ripe pear and banana, even bubblegum; quite fizzy carbonation for an intended stout, but with a smooth-edged, hazelnutty, Ersatz-chocolatey and chestnutty malt body. That slick bubblegum effect remains, while a liquorice-like flavour becomes more and more prominent, paired with a phenolic clove effect and roasted, near-coffeeish bitterness in the finish; a very earthy, even somewhat manure-like accent sets in at the back too, while herbal hops add a subtle bitterness. Both sweet-caramelly and bitter-toasty maltiness gets the last word. Not an unpleasant beer at all, but overcarbonated and 'over-liquoriced'; in any case this is a very surprising creation for Rocs, and if I had tasted it blind, I would never have associated it with this brewery. Unusual, surprising and enjoyable, but I am left with a feeling that this brewery could have done better... Still, if this is the first stepping stone to a whole new series of adventurous Abbaye des Rocs beers, then bring it on, this groundbreaking brewery deserves a new launch into the world of craft brewing as far as I'm concerned.
Kraddel (15810) reviewed Black Rocs from Brasserie de l'Abbaye des Rocs 5 years ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6
Pours dark brown, medium, off white and creamy, stable white head. Smell is spiced, herbal, cardamom like. Mild roastyness. Taste is full, mildly roasty, tad sweet. No real bitterness. Spices are very mild, the specific adjuncts unrecognizable to me ( tasted without knowing what should be in there.. maybe if you know ? ) low amount of a plastic-like finish, which makes this beer not as great as I had hoped and expected.