Maredsous 8

After reading some of the reviews of this beer, I’m wondering if I had a bad bottle or something. You’d think that a beer like this would benefit from a little age, and I’m not saying it’s a bad beer. It’s just...okay. It sort of get’s lost in my mind with all the other average beers out there. Aroma at first was malty, dark fruits, perhaps some candi sugar and mildly spicy. Appearance was root beer brown in color with an off-white one-finger foamy head. Mouthfeel was soft with a bit of stickyness. Flavors were malty, molasses, dark fruits, slightly spicy and a bit nutty. This bottle just didn’t do it for me. I will get another and re-rate for sure.

bottle @ de hems. Deep amber with a thick malty head. Aroma of earthy malt, orange, vanilla and alcohol. Taste is very similar, but a little more toned down. Some hints of maple syrup. Lovely finish of lightly roasted malts. Alcohol is really apparent.

Ah the maredsous 8 its been tooo long. wonderful dark malty beer. Big head choc brown colour, choc nose. Slight alcohol good malt flavour a little smokey gets better with age. This bottle 4 years

Sampled at a blind abbey dubbel tasting hosted by tennisjoel on 4-14-07, along with eight other beers. This was the fifth beer that we tasted. It finished in sixth place in my rankings, but it was last place in the group rankings. Originally poured from a 11.2 oz. bottle. The overwhelming winner of the night was ’t Smisje Dubbel, with Corsendonk Pater finishing a strong if distant second. <P>Sweet chocolate and bubblegum aroma. Smell of wet diapers (not dirty diapers, merely wet ones). The strong aroma features hardly any hops. It improves upon multiple sips. Pours a translucent brown with a red glow, a small amount of beige head, and low bubbling. Alcohol evident in the taste. Bitter spices and tobacco flavors. Some burnt malt-like taste. A hint of smokiness. Warm finish. Bitter aftertaste. Surprisingly light in body. Lively on the palate. A nice change of pace in mouthfeel from the other beers we sampled that night. Drinkable.

Belgian beer festival Brussels 2006: This must’ve been one of the beers I had whilst completely off my rocker...so I give it the average as to not affect its score but keep a record.

Pour is amber . Some plum, along with a smoky, charcoal like character. Also molasses notes. This was an interesting beer for me. A little raw and the alcohol was not masked on this as well as some other dubbels sampled during a tasting. For me, it scored middle of the road. However, out of the four participants, it finished dead last out of the 9 dubbels tasted.

Fantastic head in the bruin category, with the flavor and aroma of fruity bitterness, spices, yeast, banana aso. Maybe my favorite Maredsous, but M 6 is also good.

brown (rich ruby), rich chocolate flavour, but too fizzy with rich dark chocolate bitter (almost same flav as a good dark 80% choc) in its linger