Brasserie de l'Abbaye des Rocs

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

Established in 1979

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Chaussée Brunehault 37, Montignies-sur-Roc, 7387, Belgium
Description
Established in 1979, Belgian brewery Abbaye des Rocs is a family-run business which was founded by Jean-Pierre Eloir and his wife Marie-Jeanne Bertiau. Now managed by their daughter Nathalie Eloir and her partner Georges Levecq, the brewery launched the micro-brewery movement in Belgium and the rest of the world.

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7/10
Tried on 21 May 2020 at 23:44

7.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Bottle from Geers, Oostakker. Pours hazy dark brown with an unstable, thin, frothy, off-white head. Aroma of pear syrup, prune, toffee, candied orange, dried tea leaves, liquorice. Taste has sweet candied fruit, pear, fig, red apple, prune, syrupy, biscuity & caramelly malty profile, balanced by phenolic & herbal bitter accents. Herbal hoppy finish, malty, more candied fruit, liquorice & some toast. Warming brown rum-like alcohol in the very end. Medium body, syrupy texture, fizzy carbonation. Somewhere between 'roasted' Belgian Strong Dark & actual Stout, but pleasant surprise by this 'classic' Belgian brewery.
Tried from Bottle on 21 May 2020 at 15:38

6.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 6.5
An almost black beer, a head is quite big and yelloish beige. Aroma has fruitness and dried fruitness, prune, low roastiness. Taste has dried fruitness and roastiness, low spicyness. Medium bodied, fluffy. House flavour from Abbeye des Rocs is there, but the balance isn't very succesfully, the roastiness isn't fit very nicely there.
Tried on 03 May 2020 at 08:36

5.8/10 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

5/10 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

5.6/10 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

5.9/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 4 Overall 6.5
Thuis in de tuin uit een flesje. Bleek, geel, wits schuim. Een matig witbier, sterker: ik zou het niet als witbier herkend hebben. Scherpe alcoholsmaak, niet de citrus frisheid van witbier.
Tried on 23 Apr 2020 at 16:23


7.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7
Rich malty aroma, some spice. Similar taste - rich malts, spicy bitterness. Need to retaste.
Tried on 01 Apr 2020 at 07:08

6.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Bottle. Slightly unclear golden body with a white head. Quite typical Saison aroma with fruity esters and yeast. Taste is mild and refreshing fruity with style typical peppery yeast and esters. Medium body and aftertaste in the same direction. A well-made, easy drinkable, quite refreshing, straight forward Sasion. Highly enjoyable without being mind blowing.
Tried from Bottle on 30 Mar 2020 at 12:37