Trappistes Rochefort 8
(has 18 batches)
Abbaye Notre-Dame de Saint-Rémy - Rochefort in Rochefort, Namur, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Strong Ale Regular|
Score
7.95
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The lower gravity cousin to Rochefort 10. Nicknamed "Spéciale" (’The Special’), this beer is the most recent production. The Rochefort 8 has a more tawny colour and a more pronounced aroma, with an even richer fruitiness (a slight undertone of fig?) and a little more spiced dryness, like that of a cake, which gives a balanced finish to the final notes.
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7.8/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 7
Overall 8
2019 bottle. A true classic that I've been wanting to revisit for a while now. Pretty fresh, I prefer it with some age. Bit high carbonation. Sweet, Belgiany, candied sugar. Lots of dried fruit / raisins.
Tried
from Bottle
at
Beer&
on 15 Oct 2019
at 22:00
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Rich dark brown colour, with small golden head. Aroma is rich maltiness, sweet caramel, bit of booze, dark fruit. Taste is nice, smooth, roasty malt, bit beefy, not so much floral herby as with the 10. Touch of creaminess. Very nice and smooth, and easy drinking. I love the 10 but the 8 is still pretty damn good.
Tried
on 09 Sep 2019
at 15:53
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Rarate after new checklist: I would say it is not as good as I last tried, but that one may have been aged longer or not so long. Anyway old score was: 8/5/9/5/19=4.6 'Alus muca' in cenuklubs. Smell- medium strong, honey, herbs, sweetness, caramel, nice. Foam- thin, huge in mouth, sweet, caramel, soft, after shaking weak bitter and spicy notes. Quite large foam, creamy white, brownish color, quite lasting, can put half of 0.33 into 0.5. Thickish. Appearance- hazy orange, brown, bit like apple juice (natural) color. Taste- honey, caramel, sweetness, alcohol, even more caramel and alcohol, some spice too. I must say I like it better than 10, this is amazing.Bonus for new bottlecap.
Tried
from Can
on 19 Mar 2019
at 18:08