Dark Cherry Abbey Ale
Big Rock Brewery

Dark Cherry Abbey AleDark Cherry Abbey Ale
Beer Geek Stats
From:
Big Rock Brewery
 
Alberta, Canada
Style:
Belgian Dark Strong Ale
ABV:
9.5%
Score:
Needs more ratings
Avg:
3.84 | pDev: 3.39%
Reviews:
4
Ratings:
8
Status:
Active
Rated:
Aug 09, 2016
Added:
Nov 26, 2015
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Ratings by leaddog:
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Reviewed by leaddog from Canada (AB)

3.74/5  rDev -2.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Appearance - Pours a dark brown with ruby highlights and a finger width of tan head.

Smell - Cherries, candied sugar, Belgian yeast, dark toasty malts, hint of orange peel, earthy hops.

Taste - Dark toasty (almost chocolate-like) malts with cherries, sugar, Belgian yeast, and earthy hops. Slight hint of orange peel. Not overly cloying or tart, considering the ingredients in this brew.

Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with moderate-to-high carbonation. Finishes with a pleasant stickiness.

Overall - A well-constructed Belgian dark strong ale with good flavours. I'd like a little more cherry on the palate and the appearance (head retention) could be improved.
Jan 24, 2016
More User Ratings:
 
Rated: 4 by andrenaline from Canada (ON)

Aug 09, 2016
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Reviewed by headlessparrot from Canada (ON)

4.02/5  rDev +4.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
Legitimately one of the best offerings to come out of Big Rock in quite awhile. Nice depth, lovely sweetness, and beautiful tart-sweet cherry presence that feels very "natural," for whatever it's worth.
Feb 23, 2016
 
Rated: 3.69 by likeablepaper from Canada (AB)

Jan 31, 2016
 
Rated: 3.74 by joemcgrath27 from Canada (AB)

Jan 06, 2016
 
Rated: 3.83 by Tivlavrie from Canada (AB)

Dec 27, 2015
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Reviewed by Trosevear from Canada (AB)

3.97/5  rDev +3.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
L: Dark brown almost black with a nice brown head head that leaves some small lacing down the side.

S: Sweet molasses, and a slight smell of cherries and rasperries.

T: Sweet chocolate and slight amount of cherries and raspberry.

F: Full body mouth feel. Kinda boozy though but enjoyable besides that.

O: A pretty nice beer even though it's kinda boozy.
Dec 22, 2015
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)

3.75/5  rDev -2.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
750ml, caged and corked bottle, which comes inside a tall white cardboard box. One stupidly difficult to remove flared cork, check.

This beer pours a very dark, hazy brown colour, with a teeming tower of puffy, finely foamy, and faintly creamy tan head, which leaves a bit of randomly splattered sudsy lace around the glass as it swiftly abates.

It smells of bready, doughy caramel malt, a pleasantly musty under the basement stairs thing, biscuity cherry fruit notes (like those Nutri-Grain 'granola' bars), some estery booziness, muddled citrus, vague coriander and white pepper spice, brown sugar, and a generic earthiness. The taste is sugary caramel malt, fairly indistinct cherry cough drops, still benign seasonal spice, a subtle (or maybe just weak) orange rind fruitiness, stale gingerbread, and a hovering, but politely declining to really interfere for the most part alcohol heat.

The carbonation is nice and fluffy in its generally engaging and playful frothiness, the body a solid medium-heavy weight, and mostly smooth, with a small attendant creaminess. It finishes sweet, yeah, but moderated just enough by a masked fruitiness and a still weirdly genial big booze measure.

If you didn't tell me that actual cherries were sacrificed (and hurt!) in the making of this offering, I probably wouldn't have noticed, instead attributing my perception of them to yeast or malt (or maybe even hop) complexity. At any rate, this is a not too shabby BSDA, all on its own, but don't go in expecting your cherry, um, 'cherry' to get verily popped here.
Nov 29, 2015
Dark Cherry Abbey Ale from Big Rock Brewery
Beer rating: 3.84 out of 5 with 8 ratings