No 66 - St. Bernardus Abt 12

Another winner from St. Bernardus! The nose just oozes out of the glas with beautiful notes of sweet oranges, dark cookie dough, warm spices and hay. Very, very deep. After a while a lot of coconut aromas evolves. Very, very good.

The taste is deep, complex and tight with sweet dark fruit and notes of fudge, candied orange peels, assorted nuts and wet earth. Very long and intense finish. A lovely bitterness ends the taste. A gorgeous beer but it doesn´t reach the height of the Tripel from this brewery - but this is a star all the same!

95p   (tasted from bottle - 2011/01)

No 65 - Maredsous 8 Bruin

A very deep, creamy nose with notes of candied orange peel, milk chocolate, caramell and wet asphalt! Round, creamy and good, but without that really interesting character.
The taste is the same - round, creamy and very good with notes of milk chocolate, undergrowth, orange peels - but is lacks in the complexity department. Very good though - I will drink it again!

86p   (tasted from bottle - 2011/01)