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Tasting Notes |
The Rochefort beers are, just like all other strengthfull beers of high fermentation, excellent for keeping. The expiration date is just a legally obliged indication which is irrelevant. In principle the beer is non-perishable. An expiration date is of course interesting because in that way the bottle date is known.
The flavour of the beer keeps evolving in the botlle, by the effects of the added barm and a series of chemical processes, which are unknown to us, and which are not yet scientific examinated in full. But what is accessible for everyone, is the magnificent development that the beer experienses in the bottle. We give an extensive report for the noted impressions of the different beers that we tasted between a month and two years after they were bottled. We concentrated ourselfs on the flavour and the aroma, because there the strongest evolution is noticed. The feeling in the mouth is not mentioned individual, where they were changes whe have mentioned them in the flavour notes.
Rochefort 6 |
Rochefort 8 |
Rochefort 10 |
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1-2 month |
froth: very regular, disappears quickly, a thin frothlayer remains, cream-coloured |
froth: very regular, but disappears quickly, a thin frothlayer remains |
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2-4 month |
froth: idem |
froth: idem |
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4-6 month |
froth: idem |
froth: idem |
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6-12 month |
froth: disappears quickly, not glass-sticking, cream-coloured |
froth: idem |
froth: disappears quickly, sometimes even difficult frothing |
12 month and further |
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Above-mentioned symptoms are more or less preserved, but, in flavour and aroma, touches of liquorice, gingerbread and malt are originating; the beer now starts at an evolution for many years which will lead slowly to the typical fully fermented Trappistflavour |
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