St. Bernardus Prior 8

Bottle. Pours hazy red/brown with a beige heads that stays will the last sip. Aroma is primarily ripe fruit, berry, plum and apricot. Also notes of yeast, caramel, and vanilla. Medium body. Fruity flavor, notes of plum, berry, apricot, and raisin, as well as yeast, caramel and loganberry. Very good, but a little short of the 12 in all aspects. Nonetheless, very complex and well put together. This is something I could drink every night.

11.2oz from chalice. pours very similiar color to pater 6, perhaps with a touch of cola thrown in. nose has more booze to it then the pater did, palate reveals some unexpected spice. very clean finish, even mouthfeel disappears almost immediately. this provides its own unique characteristics, provisions and advantages to pater 6, very well put together.

Bottle, pours muddy brown. Nose offers a splendid bouquet of honey, dates, figs, raisins, hint of brown sugar thrown in. Smooth palate, quaffable. Clean, exceptionally smooth. Spice and peppery, dry finish. Exceptional.

Bottled. Very fine, perfumy, chocolatey aroma with both spicyness and alcohol. Not too strong in taste initially, tastes prunes. Quite alcoholic and surprisingly sour.

(Sample from August 25, 2006 Beer Club Meeting; On draft at Draught House on March 23, 2008) Served in St Bernardus trappist glass for full effect. Short but very frothy head that diminished quickly. Nice lacing. A beautiful dark and murky brown-ruby body. Smells of molasses and caramel, light hops. Thick and smooth... malty sweet and yummy. Flavor hangs out with some alcohol on your tongue for a while. No need to rush a drink like this. The Belgians really know how to brew a good beer. Sarah’s take: "It’s goood."

St. Bernardus Prior 8 is a very sweet almost champagne like strong ale. The aroma is very sweet and the color is a beautiful deep amber with a very nice cream colored head. The flavor is sweet and fruity with a nice notable trace of alcohol at the end.

330ml bottle (Belgianshop)
Slightly hazy dark brown, tiny head. Raspberry and other dark berries aroma. Slightly alcoholic, but only in a good way that helps lift the aromas up the nose. Pleasant carbonation, quite lively, but still soft. A few swirls mellows it down nicely. Soft full malty body, richly roasted malt. Sweet dark fruits too. Decent malty finish, but as a very late finish there’s also a glorious nuttiness. Superb beer. Belgian ale at it’s finest.

Bottle. The aroma is sweet, fruity with notes of plums - a pretty complex aroma. The color is a deep red and it has a small beige head though fast disappearing. The flavor is sweet and rich in fruit; plums, raisins, and prunes. The alcohol tickles the tongue which combines with the bitterness into a dry end. It has a good palate which in combination with the alcohol makes it rather vinous.