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
6.92
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Abbaye des Rocs from Audregnies and Barrel of Monks Brewing from Florida together release Black Rocs, an Imperial Stout with the addition of hibiscus flower and wild pepper from Kivu. You will taste aromas of coffee, a slightly sweet touch from the hibiscus, and ending with cocoa and licorice. 7.5% ABV
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6.5/10
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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.
Tried
on 28 Jan 2020
at 12:11
7.4/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8
Flavor 7.5
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
330 ml. bottle @ Beerlovers Bar. Collaboration with an USA brewery which apparently specializes in BE style beers of whom I have never heard before. Appears to be a stout with non-specified spices. Pours dark brown, lively beer with a big mocha head, slightly bitter bubbles. Nose is spice, heavy BE overripe fruit, yeast, cloves, fruit, low metallic. Sadly body & taste-wise carbonation is too high and finish is slightly metallic, profile is very clove, BE dark fruit, sugar, hazelnut, dark red grape. Love the BE profile, fruit & clove, body sadly really took it won quite a bit, still good but would have been an awesome strong BE yeast forward dark beer with better body / carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
at
Beerlovers Bar
on 16 Jan 2020
at 20:50