Category Archives: Abbaye des Rocs
#187 – Blanche des Honnelles
Size: 330ml ABV: 6 % Blanche des Honnelles is a uniquely flavoured beer made at the Abbaye des Rocs brewery very close to the French border. It is so named after the rivers that flow at their most powerfully through … Continue reading →
Filed under 4, Abbaye des Rocs, Belgian White (Witbier)
Tagged as Abbaye, Abbaye des Rocs, barley, beer, Belgian, Blanche, Grande, Honnelles, Montignies-sur-Rocs, oats, Petite, Rocs, wheat
#167 – La Montagnarde
Size: 330 ml ABV: 9 % You might expect a beer that is named after a mountaineer to be based somewhere alpine, but as we have already elicited from the Abbaye des Rocs Brune (#67), the area around the village … Continue reading →
Filed under 9, Abbaye des Rocs, Abbey Beer, Belgian Strong Ale
Tagged as Abbaye des Rocs, Abbey, Audregnies, Battle of Mons, beer, Belgian, Boskeun, Brune, caramel, Countess, Edith Cavell, Germans, Great War, High Lands, Jeanne de Belleville, Montagnarde, Montignies-sur-Rocs, mountaineer, Natalie Eloir, National Park, Sieberg, toffee, treason, World War I
#155 – Abbaye des Rocs Speciale Noel
Size: 330 ml ABV: 9 % The last time I attacked a beer from the Brasserie des Rocs – the Brune (#67), I was bombarded with sediment. The Christmas beer from the same stable was again no exception – it … Continue reading →
Filed under 6, Abbaye des Rocs, Abbey Beer, Belgian Strong Ale, Christmas Beer
Tagged as Abbaye, Annes 1900, beer, Belgian, Brasserie, Brune, Christmas, des Rocs, hair of the dog, Methode Traditionelle, Noel, protein, Quadrupel, sediment, Speciale, yeast
#67 – Abbaye des Rocs Brune
Size: 330 ml ABV: 9 % The Abbaye des Rocs Brewery has a big name these days, especially in the USA, however in reality it is just a small farm in a picturesque little village in the heart of the … Continue reading →
Filed under 7, Abbaye des Rocs, Abbey Beer, Belgian Strong Ale
Tagged as Abbaye, Abbey, beer, Belgian, Blaugies, cave, church, des Rocs, French Revolution, Haut, Highlands, Montignies, National Park, Pearl, ruin, sediment, watermill
