Maredsous 8

Brewed by Brouwerij Moortgat
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Breendonk-Puurs, Belgium

Appears black but when held up to light has red tint. Big, long lasting, white head with lacing 6. Aroma is sweet malt, dark fruits, plum, slight doughyness 4. Thin, large bubble body 2. Med. to large sweet matlt flavor, bitter, dark fruit, tobacco, and large, overwhelming alc taste 7. I do enjoy this beer, but there are a little too many things off for me to completely love it 15. 3.4 -------Rerate a part of the blind "Better Know a Style: Abbey Dubbel" tasting. Dark brown with ruby color with small creamy off-white head. Apealing nose that is light/dark fruit, spicy, and light yeast. Res apple, nutty flavor with alc and raisins. Medium body with nice carb. Very balanced but very light in flavor. I rated this better than before.

ACBeerfest-on tap-pours a tan head and copper color. Aroma is dark fruit, medium malt-sweet. Taste is dark fruit-cherry, medium malt-sweet, faint hops, some smoky/roasty. OK carbonation.

Tap at the Muddy Pig. Aroma of rich chocolate chip cookies. Rum-dipped. Alcohol soaked plum and fig notes. Less intriguing body tastes of dirty metal and burnt wood, never evolving and fading far too quickly. Underdone and kind of rough, but not difficult to drink.

750ml bottle. Pours a brilliant dark amber with a large long lasting light tan head that leaves good lacing. Aroma of caramel malt, and dark fruit. Taste is the same but alcohol is a little hot. Medium mouthfeel with a large amount of carbonic bite and mild bitterness. Good but a little off balance.

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.