Tonight's beer: Maredsous Brune
Lots of dark bread and toasty caramel, with chocolate and dark dried/candied fruits (cherries, plums, raisins, figs) woven densely in. Earthy-grassy-spicy-floral bitterness emerges around the end. A trace of dark spirits—rum and brandy, mostly—in the distance. Starts pretty sweet, finishes pretty dry with a slight bitter rasp.
Very light-bodied, with scats of carbonation; plenty dry and refreshing, almost cleansing. Just a vague and gentle trace of stickiness around the end, and a minimal amount of alcohol heat.
A delicious and drinkable abbey-style Dubbel, supple and subtle and graceful and deceptively strong—it's hard to credit this beer as packing an 8% ABV punch. Intense and staggeringly complex, integrated and superbly balanced. Not brewed by monks, but as good as beers that are. A wonderful example of a style that seems too often to get passed over in favor of bigger and brawnier and sexier Quadrupels. Yum.
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| Maredsous Brune |
Lots of dark bread and toasty caramel, with chocolate and dark dried/candied fruits (cherries, plums, raisins, figs) woven densely in. Earthy-grassy-spicy-floral bitterness emerges around the end. A trace of dark spirits—rum and brandy, mostly—in the distance. Starts pretty sweet, finishes pretty dry with a slight bitter rasp.
Very light-bodied, with scats of carbonation; plenty dry and refreshing, almost cleansing. Just a vague and gentle trace of stickiness around the end, and a minimal amount of alcohol heat.
A delicious and drinkable abbey-style Dubbel, supple and subtle and graceful and deceptively strong—it's hard to credit this beer as packing an 8% ABV punch. Intense and staggeringly complex, integrated and superbly balanced. Not brewed by monks, but as good as beers that are. A wonderful example of a style that seems too often to get passed over in favor of bigger and brawnier and sexier Quadrupels. Yum.
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