It seems I am trying to get hammered on as few beers as possible tonight, first a 9% BBA belgium Dark Ale, now an 11% Belguim quad!! and it might be working. My typing skills are being put to the test tonight, even on a regular keyboard I am having to do a lot of backspacing. This beer was given to me by a work mate who was stationed in Germany for 5 years and recently returned, and he brought this baby home with him. And yes, it is available in the USA on import, I wonder if it is better from the source. I have had one bought in the US, so I will see.

Abbaye Notre-Dame de Saint-Remy - Trappist Rochefort 10

Stats

• Brewer: Abbaye Notre-Dame de Saint Remy - Rochefort, Namur, Belgium
• Alcohol Content: 11.3 by volume
• IBUs: 27
• Company Description: Unfortunately, the website was in Belgium but I did find this on the Untappd site: Dominant impressions of latte coffee with powerful chocolate aromas in the nose. The alcohol esters are enveloped with hints of autumn wood, citrus zest (orange, lemon) and freshly baked biscuits. The initial taste is sweetly sinful. Beer and chocolate trapped into one single glass, a liquid milky draught with a backbone of bitter malt. The alcohol warms the throat and, in the finish, you will pick up traces of cloves, citrus, orange and mocha.
  The heaviest of the Rochefort beers, the 10 is a quadrupel style beer and can be recognized by its blue label.

Presentation

This beer comes in a medium brown bottle, with front and back labels in a light tan color. The front shows the beer name and the prominent 10 in a blue circle, with the word "beer" in 5 languages. The back also has a 5 language description of the ingredients. Clearly a beer made for exporting, so it is popular world wide based on that alone. I know the labeling is consistent between the duppel "6" and the trippel "8" beers they also produce.

The Beer

• Appearance: A darker brown beer, after an overally agressive pour, had a pretty good head of light tan-khaki foam that stayed for a while.
• Aroma: It had a sweet aroma, I didn't pick up the chocolate the brewer indicated would be there, but the breadiness was present.
• Taste: Sweet and bready, slightly bitter even though the IBUs were lower at 25. There are some other tastes in there that I had hard time determining.
• Mouthfeel: it was light bodied and highly carbonated as evidenced by the pour.
• Drinkability: overall it was complex but fairly easy drinker. Has a hard to describe taste but smooth going down.

Rating and Final Thoughts

I rated this a 3.75 on Untappd after two samplings. Didn't change my first rating from several months back, so buying the beer in US vs Europe didn't seem to matter. Overall on Untappd this beer garnered a 4.16 so it is liked better world wide (134,000 ratings) than myself. I seem to have an issue with Belgium beers, not sure why, they have a taste that I just don't love and this Quad was actually one of the Belgiums I liked the most. Im sure a lot of you have had this one, so would love to hear what you thought of it.

3.75/5

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