St. Bernardus Prior 8

This beer pours a dark beige/brown color with a creamy tan head with large bubbles. I smelled dried fruit and carmel on the nose. This is a well balanced beer and I would strongly recommend this. After tasting this, I am excited to taste 12.

Medium creamy beige head with a rash of larger bubbles. Body is hazy opaque dark brown. Aroma is sweetish slightly acidic wooden and spicy with notes of caramel. Deep acidic licorice and chocolate taste with vinuous wooden notes. Dry, slightly roasty licorice aftertaste. Very harmonic and balanced. Excellent! Dangerously drinkable, complex, and interesting. A great beer. (0.33l bottle.)

Blackish beer with ruby highlights. Beige head, creamy and sticky. In the nose: dried fruit, I’ll go with raisins and apples. Malty flavor with some dried fruit, but it’s smooth--not the same party you get with the 12. Mouthfeel more bubbly than creamy. Finish is mild and balanced among malt, bitterness and alcohol. A first-class beer, but kick it up to the 12 when you’re really in the mood to contemplate.

not as deep tastings as the abt but still agreeable. this is still a damn good beer.

11.2 oz. bottle. Pours a slightly hazy ruddy orange-brown color. Produces a beautiful huge, fluffy and rocky tan head which maintains a 1/4" thickness throughout the glass. Quite intense and pleasant aromas of fresh baked wheat rolls, yeast, ripe pears/apples, caramel candies, toffee along with faint hints of buckwheat honey, spices, charred oak and alcohol. Palate is full and round combining a nice spritzy carbonation with an enjoyable chewy texture. Flavor profile seems a bit more reserved compared to the aroma, but still quite good. Notes of sweet Belgian crystal malts, light brown sugar, caramel, toffee, spices, fresh dark wheat bread and ripe light fruits are savored. Finish shows just a quick hit of hops and alcohol, but unfortunately tends to fade out fast leaning toward some thiness in the end. All in all a well done Belgain Dubble and would certainly visit this again.

Thanks to secret Santa for this one. 12oz bottle. Hazy, murky, chunky, caramel colored brew. The aroma is heavy with dates, raison bread and sweet malt. The flavor is similar with bread, dates, yeasty malt, light fruit and perhaps hints of sherry. Chewy body. A solid brew. Glad I’m having this one at my tasting next month.

Malty, with some sour notes in the aroma. The flavor was most noticeably of malts, with raisin, yeast, a little spice. Undoubtedly good, but not the best of the Belgians.

Bottle. First impression was a good slightly hazy amberish pour with the typical foamy head. The aroma seemed a bit sour and dry, not the sweet maltiness I am accustomed to. At first the taste was a bit more sour than others, maybe a bit prunish or raiseny. Definitely not as good as the 12, but good nonetheless.