330 ml bottle. Pours a reddish brown with light head. Aromas of candi sugar, raisins, red fruit, and toasted malts. Flavors of candi sugar, raisins, and bready malts. Dry almost metallic finish.

--Bottled. -- Clear copper colour, mid sized head. Caramelly nose with some marzipan. Mid sweet with medium to full body and soft mouthfeel. Deep caramelly malt, some dates and brown sugar. Low bitterness.

Arbitrary rating for appearance 8/10 due to insufficient lighting Sweet-nutty nose, suggesting oxydation, bit of arachide, chocolate bar with nuts. Drier in the mouth, traces of alcohol, again chocolate bar with raisins. Slight acidity playing. Well bodied, very slick almost sticky. Just better than average, classical Walloon brune. Txs to L&Y for bringing

33cl bottle from Carrefour market LA CHASSE (BRUSSEL). F: medium, tan, almost good retention. C: brown, hazy. A: malty, pear, red apples peels, bit banana, caramel, bread crust. T: full malty base, banana, apples peels, bit spicy, caramel, decent bitterness, bit toast, medium carbonation, dark bread touch, realtively easy drinkable, herbal, quite nice, enjoyed.

Bottle from Rond Point. Dark brown colour, beige foam. Nose of berries, dried fruit, herbs, liquorice, brown sugar. Taste is rather sweet and herbal, fruity notes. Medium bitter finish. Strange and unusual but not bad.

The ‘brown one’ in this series of new Ardennes ales, produced by a microbrewery set up in a family-owned recreation park. Thanks Joeri for sharing. Thick, egg-white, mousy, slowly breaking head lacing in dots over a misty caramelly-brown deep amber beer. Aroma of hard caramel, dry tea bags, glazed beetroot, dried apricot, bread crust, soggy rusk, touch of iron somewhere. Sweet onset in a very clean way, apple peel, medlar, some green banana, softish carb, slick body; caramelly maltiness with rusk- or dry cookie-like core, sweetish and slender, developing a toasty-bitterish edge in the end matching with a herbal, well-measured herbal hop bittering accent. Finishes relatively quickly, with mostly some caramelly malt sweetness lingering; alcohol provides some afterwarmth but is generally very well hidden. Clean, simple and easily drinkable especially for a quad, this should pose no big challenges to the unsuspecting tourists coming to visit the Rochehaut domain apart from being a tad too drinkable perhaps – with drunken tourists as a result… Technically very well brewed, more than averagely so for a Walloon microbrewery in fact, but I still prefer the quads made by Rochefort, with which Rochehaut is not to be confused.