Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle Pours a slightly hazy pale yellow "Blonde" with a Huge white head and lots of clumpy/sticky lacing. The yeasty bits are churning around taking a ride on all the carbonation. Looks like some knd of beer snow-globe. Now there’s an idea. Sweet fruity spicey aroma. Yes, flavor is largely apricots, some carmel and butterscotch and a slight alcohol flavor. Carbonation is lively and the finish is celan and quick.A slight lingering bitterness.
Oakes (33770) reviewed Spéciale Noël from Brasserie de l'Abbaye des Rocs 21 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Sedimented chestnut appearance. Cobwebby yeast aroma with plum, cherry, peach and sweet dark malts. Spritzy carbonation and a full body. Peachy, slightly perfumey, cherryish and plummy palate with rich malty depths and a hint of chocolate. A little alcohol in the finish. Warming, rich, fruity. Joyeaux Noel, Brasserie des Rocs!
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle Pours a deep carmel brown with a small light tan head and sparce but silky lacing. Lots of floaters and sinkers. Fruity and spicy notes. Plums, raisons and molassas. flavors are the belgian spice, slight smokey notes and mostly dark pitted fruits. Flavors are quite subdued earthy and blended. Much more so than the other highly rated Belgians I’ve had. Feel is soft and a bit lively and the finish is smooth with a slight woody malty flavor.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Murky muddy brown coloured body with a super-dense tan head. Aroma of pit fruit, caramel, toffee, coriander seed and some light hops. Medium to Full-bodied; Strong fruit flavour up front with pleasant malt. Musty flavours running through pretty well. Showing some hops and alcohol in the finish...pretty good! Overall, a nice beer-definitely not a tripel, but a great beer to find! I sampled this 75 cL bottle with jon[r888710] , purchased by me a day ealier from Whole Foods in Vienna, Virginia.
MiP (20379) reviewed Grand Cru from Brasserie de l'Abbaye des Rocs 21 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
Magnum bottle. Spicy aniseed aroma. Dark red/brown colour, OK head. Malty aniseed flavour. Soft and full-flavoured. Pleasant. Tea-like aftertaste.
omhper (45152) reviewed Grand Cru from Brasserie de l'Abbaye des Rocs 21 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottled. Cloudy amber, small head. Dryish and almondy upfront, sweeter in the finish. Rich in flavour, lighter in mouthfeel then expected. Lightly yeasty, some caramel, very complex and well balanced.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
It appears this beer has slipped under the radar a bit. Hazy red body with abundant suspended rather nefarious-looking floaties (something I’ve come to expect from this brewer), medium-thick tan head. Here’s another brewer with a distinctive house yeast character, this time becoming apparent immediately in the aroma with its strong perfumey (yarrow?), petaly character. Also a bit caramely and leathery. The flavor is quite sweet, with dark candi sugar, strong herbal and perfumey yeast flavors, a touch of pepper and a spoonful of plum. Finishes with a rather dirty bitterness. Not all that different from the original Abbaye (now Brasserie) des Rocs.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
Sampled in celebration of my summitting the 3900m Ala-Kol pass. Hazy dull tan colour. Sweaty, bready aroma with lemon, lime and bubblegum. Palate is slightly watery, quite yeasty with lemon, banana, perfume. Straightforward Belgian session ale - perhaps a bit too yeasty for my tastes.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Clear ruby toned brown with a nice head that laced well. Aroma is sweet malt and mellow wine. The flavor is faintly sweet with a nice bitterness to it. Light on the tongue and somewhat thin in the body. Good, but over rated. Good Belgian for the price however.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle Hazy, blond body. Off-white, rocky head. A lot of particles floating around (might be my own fault). Spices, sweet caramel, oranges in the well balanced aroma. Moderately bitter, lightly sweet flavour of oranges, hops, honey, spices. Very well balanced flavour with a nice (but not extreme) complexity.