“Trappistes Rochefort 6 from Abbaye Notre-Dame de Saint-Remy is a top fermentation beer with an alcohol content of 7.50%. Red-brown colour. Slightly spicy aroma and an intense taste of caramel, fruit, and hints of raisins.”
Served in a Trappist chalice. A copper/chestnut hue meets the eye. The pour generates a thumb of tightly held foam that trims off a smidge and settles to a fine sheet over the top. Not a great deal of lace but enough to decorate the glass as it ebbs.
We’d have to say this is the most unique-smelling Trappist Dubbel we’ve ever encountered. It’s pretty complex with this discernible blueberry/blackberry tartness on the nose. On one hand it offers floral scents of sandalwood, Jasmine and frangipani and on the other it’s sweet, slightly phenolic and plummy. It kind of has a sugary apricot scent to it as well. Smells like holidays! Exceptional stuff.
The mouth feel is seriously smooth with a creamy texture. It’s almost unfathomable that it’s 7.5% ABV, absolutely no indication as to its strength. Co2 is mild-moderate with a medium body. Classy stuff.
The front palate exhibits a distinctly sweet apricot and orange liqueur-like flavour. Really sugary as a more tangy and yeasty character evolves in the middle. Just a mild hint of dryness creeping in as sweet raisins and earthy notes of fig lead in to a dry, sweet and almost bourbon-esque finish.
Geez what did we just drink?! A glass of berry flavoured flowers with hints of sweet stone fruit and bourbon?! Incredible, and so far from your traditional Trappist Dubbel it isn’t funny. Very unexpected but a very fine offering.