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Maredsous 8

Maredsous 8 - Belgian Strong Ale

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 Percentile 
90
overall
Brewed by Brouwerij Moortgat
Style: Belgian Strong Ale

Breendonk-Puurs, Belgium

bottled
common

on tap
common

Broad Distribution
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 Ratings  Average  Score  ABV  Style Pctl  Serve in 
9443.55/5.03.54/5.08%75.4Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler
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Commercial Description:
Creamy foaming dark-coloured beer with a well-balance flavour of malt and hops.
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targhee (24), Boulder, Colorado, USA
4.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/105/58/104/516/20
Apr 4, 2007  
11.2 oz. Lot L2441 1601. Purchased at Table and Vine, W Springfield, MA. Very well carbonated. Thick root beer float head with sticky champagne bubbles. Coffee/ dark chocolate nose. Coffee malt bursts through at opening, then leaves you with dry, dark chocolate finish with a touch of hops. Can’t wait to taste at the source later this summer!


 BustedFlat (552), Edina, Minnesota, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/105/56/105/513/20
Apr 3, 2007  
Poured from a 330m bottle into a Maredsous glass, deep amber with a medium tan head. Aroma was faint, with accents of dark fruit and red grapes. Taste was subtle with hints of dark fruit and malt. Slightly sour and dry. Not sweet. Well carbonated with no apparent alcohol bite.


 yayforbeer (641), Orange Park, Florida, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/515/20
Mar 30, 2007  
.33 cl bottle. Served in a Delerium Tremens tulip. It’s a beer that you know is going to be good even before its opened, brewed by the makers of Duvel. Mahogany beer with a thick, creamy, off-white to tan head. Even generates its own head, and laces everywhere. Nice malty Belgian dubbel aroma. Flavor is characteristically dubbel, but with its own personality. Some plum and dark fruit. Almost chewy malty, and very dry, with a bitterness at the end.


theHerman (4), USA
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4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/105/58/104/516/20
Mar 30, 2007  
A great belgian ale with three different tastes in each sip. Surprisingly easy to drink.


 BREWMUSKCLES (1062), New Jersey, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/103/57/103/516/20
Mar 29, 2007  
raison vanilla fruitcake with a casked brandy and alcohol finish. roasted notes abound then fade away. interesting classy number.


 LinusStick (1831), Moon Twp, suburb of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/57/103/516/20
Mar 29, 2007  
Classic Belgian. Pour was a delicious dark brown with a thick off white head. Aroma was dark fruit and yeast. Taste was plum, malt and caramel followed by an alcohol burn with the yeastiness and carbonation teasing the senses. As it warms has a vinuous taste coming out.


 BigBeer45 (676), Troy, Michigan, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/56/104/512/20
Mar 27, 2007  
Small bottle, poured a dark ruby with a thick creamy tan head, aromas of dark malt, caramel, chocolate, dark candy sugar and sweet bread, some plum, vanilla and fruit fragrances and faint white wine in the nose, taste of dark malt, roasted malt, some sweet on the tongue, little raisin and brown sugar flavors, I sensed the alcohol in the background on first sip but I did let it warm up a little, small alcohol and/or hop bite on the tongue, medium dry on the palate, the alcohol intensifies as it warms, for me the alcohol started to overwhelm the flavor, faint wine taste or texture here and there, this would be better if the alcohol was hidden more.


 fordest (1954), Santee/San Diego, California, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/103/516/20
Mar 27, 2007  
Draft at PP Belgian Beer Fest. Dark fruit on the aroma. Suprised me on the flavor to get a bit more sour fruit instead of darker, dried sort of flavor. A bit of alcohol on the finish as well. Not too bad.



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