Maredsous 8

Pours a mahogany brown with thick frothy house that dissolves down to a thin off white film. The aroma pretty straight forward, burnt sugar, and dark fruits. The flavour is surprisingly decent, starts of with a note peppermint, sour cherry, burnt sugar, some roastiness, ends on a note of licorice. Pretty decent beer, a nice surprise.

Pours out a dark red-ish brown color, with a small light colored caramel head that sticks to the sides of the glass like cream. The aroma is very rich with strong notes of dark fruit, particularly dates and prunes. Flavor is earthy with a slightly bread-like aftertaste complementing the malty body. A light fruit sweetness pervades the taste with a subtle bitter finish.

Pure garnet pour with tons of carbonation and a nice tight beige one finger head. Aroma is candi sugar, date, raisin, plum, caramel, apple jam, port wine, and some bready yeast notes. Flavor is not nearly as sweet as the aroma might suggest- though dark fruit is still prevalent, a bitter dry quality sneaks through leaving bread and dough in its wake. Alcohol is quite noticeable and lingers in the finish. Palate is thin for the style, though fully pillowy and effervescent. Decent, though not outstanding.

Very flavourful, strongm, and a bit spicey, this is also highly drinkable and smoothly balanced. It’s dark red-brown with a big tan head that shrinks slowly to a thin, frothy top. It leaves some foamy lace. The aroma, very nice, is dried and fermented figs, brown bread, whole wheat, raisins and port. Taste is port, sweet-sour plums, fermented fruit, strawberry and cherry jam, hints of licorice and cola, sweet toastiness. Unfortuinately, it falls a little flat in character after an initially incredible start, but it still stays good.

At a tasting, thanks Shachar, small head, clear dark red to light brown colour, light aroma of coffee, bread, hops, hints of hay and spice, flavours of dark cherry, malt and hints of metal. Strong alcoholic presence which also dominates the finish.

750ml bottle. Poured a deep dark brown with a thick foamy cream head that lasted throughout with nice lacing. Rich roasted malt and yeasty aromas along with dark fruits. Taste is a nice blend of sweet roasted malt, plum and nutmeg with a slight alcohol warming. Very nice.

Bottle sample at a tasting. Thanks Shachar. Reddish-amber color. Sweet aroma with cherries, some licorice, malt and some more dark fruit noes. Sweet flavor with dark fruits (cherries are apparent in the flavor as well), some caramel, yeasty notes and a bit of alcohol. Medium-bodied.