Re-rate draught at Akkurat, Stockholm, Sweden.
Deep ruby and cloudy with creamy head. Banana aroma. Sweet and soldly malty. Estery with flowery hoppiness. Syrupy finish.

This is the best belgian ale I've tried in a long time. A moderate head that becomes a light lacing sits atop a dark ruby beer that looks quite inviting. There is a cornucopia of fruit going on in the aroma, which makes the salivary glands work extra hard before you even sip. There is so much going on in the flavor: cherries, raisins, caramel, honey...everything the commericial description claims and more. And the finish, my oh my, chocolate covered cherries dance across the palate for a considerable amount of time. For comparison, this is much like Trois Pistoles, but with more body, and a substantial malt charactaristic that is quite pleasant. An outstanding beer!

Cloudy brown color. Heavy foam development. Sweet spicy fruity aroma, orange-like. Tastes like the normal Abbaye des Rocs, fruity malts. Nice finish. However, it's not a typical x-mas brew.

Amber colour, thin collar of foam, persistent; original whirlpool of thin bubbles in the middle of the glass. Sweet aroma of malt, alcohol, very light phenol, apricot almonds. Good body structure, malty, warm, winy, light caramel, light liquorice, apricot almonds. Strong palate, with a bitter-sour note, evident apricot almond bitterness.

2013-02-11, L820 02324, bb 29/07/2011, 6-4-6-2-12=30
It pours a beautiful amber color with medium sized head, but also a lot of floaters. The aroma and flavor are vaguely honeyish, sign of the age; the mouthfeel is round, sweetish, and it has low bitterness. Interesting but old.
2002-09-09, 9-5-8-4-16=42
Golden-amber colour, thin persistent collar; original whirlpool of thin bubbles in the middle of the glass. Wonderful, fresh aroma, fruity, spicy. Dry taste, enough malty, a bit alcoholic, coriander, wood. Strong palate, aromatic. Excellent brew, strong character: don’t expect a classic wheat beer.

2002 bottleExtremely meaty, like going to a rain forest and having some papayas, guavas, oranges, passion fruit, malted barley (ok so thats not much of a rain forest item) and some roasted monkey meat with a really rich barbecue sauce. This beer had a dark, almost purple-orange appearance. Wonderful body on this beer as well.
On draught, 6/8/2005 at Redbones. Pretty fantastic to see this stuff on draught here. Man, my old reviews are bad. Roasted monkey meat??? What? Anyways, this was sweet, velvety and richly malted, with prunes, raisins, light chocolate and a hint of vinousness. Yeast is strong and chewy. Dry spicing on the end, seems to give some respite from the maltiness. Low carbonation. Aroma of nutmeg, caramelized sugar, earthy yeast, thick doughy malt and soft, cherries soaked in cointreau. Dry Belgian chocolate as well. Great stuff, perfect mouthfeel. My sample seemed a tad bit loose on the end.

On draught at Redbones, July 2005 Hazy brownish-raisin with some light tan notes and darker mahogany hues swirling about. The head is small, but well-retained and a light, tan-oatmeal color. Very fine bubbles rise in the glass, on the edges. Aroma has delectable brown sugar, raisins, caramel and a beautiful yeast, characteristic of this brewery (I think that’s the key to these guys’ success, their incredible trappist-like yeast). The flavor brings forth succulent notes of dates, figs, raisins, toffee and brown sugar, with lightly tart fruitiness on the finish and a dry, almost wood-like note. Alcohol is not present here and the body is big but fluffy. It’s decadent but it’s not, somehow. Like falling back in to a plush, silk and down bed. Yeast caresses the palate and sticks to the sides of the mouth, with light chocolate and more dry roastiness or woodiness. Hints of vanilla and creme brulee on the end. Tiny bubbles pack in the mouth and tickle the tongue. The carbonation is low but scintillating. Ah, what a wonderful beer. Score is for this rating (I didnt have a clue what I was talking about in my previous review).

I admire you who can distinguish all those flavors in all those great beers, but i'm not a homebrewer myself. Maybe that's the problem why i cant smell or taste all those different flavors. But ofcourse, perfect beer: i would say malty...