Brasserie de l'Abbaye des Rocs Nuit Étoilée

Nuit Étoilée

 

Brasserie de l'Abbaye des Rocs in Montignies-sur-Roc, Hainaut, Belgium 🇧🇪

  Belgian Style - Strong Ale Regular
Score
6.34
ABV: 9.0% IBU: - Ticks: 10
La Nuit étoilée is an Amber beer with 9% ABV. It's an homage to Vincent Van Gogh, famous artist of our area. There is an delicate bitterness and some flavors of fruits and caramel.


 

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6.5
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Gusher! Murky amber with no head. Aroma is cakey, malty, caramel. Flavour too. Decent flavour. Shame about the gusher.

Tried on 23 Dec 2021 at 15:53


5.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

Bottle from Belgiuminabox webshop Antwerp, Belgium and consumed at home Sunday 6th December 2020 listening to Drumcomplex - The Story of Now and about to start cooking Oven-baked kale gnocchi with balsamic tomatoes. Pours hazy light amber with a white head, there is a poor level of carbonation. Fruity, a little yeasty, a little chewy, to be honest it's a disappointment, I probably won't drink it all.

Tried from Bottle on 06 Dec 2020 at 15:21


5.8
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 5.5 | Flavor - 5.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Bottle shared at tasting. Clear (but I was the first to pour, the others had loads of Unidentified Floating Objects) golden color, small white head. Aroma is malts, grainy. Flavor is malts, lightly grains, pretty sweet and sugary, yeasty, lightly herbs or spices. Ok, could have been worse.

Tried on 01 May 2020 at 20:40


5
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

Flesje gedronken tijdens proeverijtje, gedeeld door Benzai. Oranje-achtig gelig bier met grote vlokken matig schuim. Weinig aroma en smaak is kruidig en fruitig. Nasmaak heeft wat pittigs.

Tried on 01 May 2020 at 19:46


5.6
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Fles gedeelt door Benzai, geprobeerd met Inoven en Keukeman. Het is een oranje geel bier met vlokken als een lavalamp en een medium witte schuimkraag. Het heeft een gistachtige geur. De smaak is moutig, zacht zoet en wat gistachtig.

Tried on 01 May 2020 at 19:31


6
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Donkerbruin bier met weinig schuim. Smaak is licht zoet en kruidig met iets van karamel.

Tried from Bottle on 19 Jul 2019 at 21:00


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

27 April 2019. At Zythos Bierfestival. Deputy Taster: Anke. Cheers to Ama Deke, Erwin, John & Meeki! Clear dark golden, unstable, thin, off-white head. Aroma of honey, biscuit, white bread, ripe orange, banana, apricot, apple sauce, white sugar. Taste is medium fruity sweet, ripe banana & apple on bready, honey-like, almost biscuity maltiness, bitter accents of grass & pepper leading to a dryish, grassy hoppy finish where mellow fruit & (residual) white sugar linger, and a dash of triple sec-like alcohol warms the throat. Medium body, slick texture, fizzy carbonation. Not sure what the aim was here - a bit too sweet even if, apparently, there is no sugar in it.

Tried on 10 May 2019 at 16:19


8.2
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Mention spéciale à l'étiquette qui représente comme le nom de la bière l'indique La nuit étoilée de Vincent Van Gogh. Nous sommes plongés d'emblée dans la poésie de ce peintre, génie de son art. Connaissant la maîtrise brassicole de l'abbaye des Rocs, assez exceptionnel, l'attente n'en était que plus grande. Et le résultat décevant... Le résultat étant loin de ce qu'est capable de faire la brasserie même si cette nuit étoilée reste appréciable. Le style ambré est cependant complexe et il permet difficilement de donner une grande bière. Les épices (coriandre, girofle, poivre, curry), très présentes, m'ont également surpris. On en est très proche d'obtenir une bière de Noël, d'autant plus que la bière est relativement douce et sucrée, couvrant ainsi un alcool de 9% qui n'en reste pas moins chaleureux (même s'il est trop poussif sur le final). D'ailleurs nombres bières dites de Noël font moins hivernales que celle-ci. Côté visuel, nous sommes donc sur un ambré, surmonté d'une mousse blanc cassé de 5 mm. Comme sur la quasi-totalité de leur bière, de la matière en suspension est présente. Attention mors à l'ouverture, la bière essaye de se faire la malle. Connaissant la maîtrise du brasseur, c'est que ce dernier a voulu mettre l'accent sur l'effervescence. Au nez, les épices précédemment décrites se font nettement ressentir sur une base fruitée (pomme, orange, poire, banane) et de caramel. On retrouve ce cocktail dès l'attaque. L'équilibre global est plutôt bon. En seconde bouche, l'intensité et la complexité monte d'un cran sans que la base aromatique n'évolue. L'ensemble est tout de même un peu confus. L'arrière bouche est quant à elle légèrement acidulée avec une présence en bouche correcte. Le final, un peu court et retombant sur l'amertume aurait mérité une petite envolée. La comparaison à Van Gogh s'arrête donc à l'étiquette.

Tried on 11 Mar 2019 at 12:20


6.8
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

La Montagnarde with curry spice added - it's been a long time since I heard anything from Rocs, the great pioneer in the modern Belgian craft beer movement (along with Dolle Brouwers, of course) so this drew my attention. Very fierce gusher - sigh… After that: a thick, egg-white, creamy, lacing, all-in-all remarkably stable head on a cloudy, deep amberish orange beer with small chunks of dead yeast throughout, which very likely relates to the gushing. Aroma of fresh orange zest, fried apples, honey 'wafels', ginger, cloves, brandy, sweet red curry indeed, minerals, peanuts, banana mush, peach jam, old dry lemon peel, cooked carrots, caramel candy. Sweet and notably estery, bit 'messy' in that respect, impressions of peach, banana and pineapple, light sourishness, fizzy but not overly sharp carbonation, slick and residually sugar-sweet, caramelly malty main body with soft peanutty accents and lots of lingering esters and spicy phenols, the latter underscored by the added curry spice, which adds an indefinite but outspoken, softly spicy, almost sweetish, unmistakable colour to the whole, actually fitting in quite well. Floral and rooty hoppiness provides end bitterness, some brandy-like alcohol avails and a bready-yeasty character remains, drenched in the added curry spice. A bit weird perhaps, too bad for the enthusiastic gushing, but very 'Walloon' in its general profile, very estery and phenolic with the phenolic character blending intimately with the added curry, reinforcing each other into an expressive, yet soft-sweetish spice character. Residual sweetness, however, remains dominant, a bit much so for me. You'll have to like this kind of beers, but within its own intentions, this is far from bad, though equally far from Rocs' legendary highlights in the 20th-century Belgian ale world.

Tried from Can on 16 Aug 2018 at 19:25


6.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Imported from my RateBeer account as Nuit Étoilée (by Brasserie de l'Abbaye des Rocs):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 13/20, MyTotalScore: 3.4/5

14/XII/16 - 33cl bottle from the brewery @ Syntra Gent - BB: 15/IV/18 (2016-1472) Thanks to Steven for sharing the bottle!

Little cloudy beige to amber beer, small aery irregular head, unstable, dissipates quickly. Aroma: sweet, lots of caramel, ripe banana, pretty oxidized, dried fruits, vanilla. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: sweet start, malty, caramel, some vanilla, pretty oxidized. Aftertaste: some alcohol, malts, ripe banana, yeast, caramel, more alcohol, dried fruits.

Tried from Bottle on 14 Dec 2016 at 16:15