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Now this is an exciting development, Rochefort Triple Extra. A brand extension that is worthy.
“This is the first new release from Rochefort since 1955. That’s a 67 year dry spell Rochefort Triple Extra is pleasantly light-bodied for a beer of this strength; it’s superbly complex, exciting, and unmatched.”
I went straight up the ladder you 10 since Trappistes Rochefort does not have a 9 which is my favorite number.
10 – pours a dark amber red color. The head just doesn’t diminish. I watched as it took many minutes to flatten down. Yeast esters on the nose headlined by banana. Not so much spice though that I would expect. Quite bready and sweet. A dessert quality to it. A “wet” beer but not viscous.
One of my gifts from Christmas 2011 was an “extra” beer allowance of $20 a month. And I have promised to chronicle what I have bought and then I will come back and add tasting notes when (if), I drink them. Some might go into my expanding beer cellar.
So this month I got two beers with my twenty. With a little to roll over into February!
Pretty Things has been sending more and more beer out to the west coast. At first, all I could find was the Jack D’Or saison but now we have Hedgerow Bitter, Field Mouse Farewell and last night I had the Our Finest Regards barleywine. All distinctively Pretty in character. And so when I saw the Sylvan Stout at Whole Foods, I decided to spend on that. But what would the second beer be?
I decided that I wanted to try a Belgian ale. So I went to the middle Rochefort that was available and grabbed the 8. I usually do not buy these beers because they are pricy for the size and I can get a variety of quality Belgians on tap at Lucky Baldwin’s here in L.A. if the mood strikes. But now, maybe, I will pick up 6 and 10 and the Bruin as well over the next few months.