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Maredsous Brune 8%
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February 13th, 2010Beer Reviews, Belgian/Trappist
Maredsous Brune (or Bruin)
It seems that my previous claims that I wasn’t really a fan of Belgian beers were completely unfounded (or simply founded on inexperience). A few years ago I assumed incorrectly that all Belgian beer = wheat fuelled turbo Hoegarden.
Maredsous is a great example how Belgian beer can be the antithesis of my previous perception: deep brown, fruity, with no pungent wheat head or overly fizzy body.
From the church wine nose, through stewed fruit – figs or prunes perhaps – this is rich, sweet affair, almost caramel on the tongue. There’s a wisp of chocolate that arrives from nowhere to spice things up as well. It finishes softly but that isn’t such a bad thing.
This is a rich, mouth-filling beer; but with it’s gentle finish it’s the sort of beer that could become one of my staple ‘have a couple in the cupboard beers’.
Maredsous is brewed by Brouwerij Duvel Moortgat, better known as the makers of Duvel. The Benedictine monks don’t make the beer, but they do make cheese that sounds amazing and I’m seriously considering a little trip over to the region to see some of their produce first hand.
Tags: abbey, belgian, benedictine, Brouwerij Duvel Moortgat, caramel, Fruity, maredsous, monks
Maredsous Brune: licensed from the monks of the Maredsous Abbey, an old and beautiful Benedictine monastery near Namur in Belgium
3 responses to “Maredsous Brune 8%” 
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The older and wiser I get (er…) the more I enjoy Belgian beer. I used to find that the only flavour I could really pick up was raw booziness. I remember drinking Chimay White in about 2004 and thinking it was poisonous — like meths with a head. I avoided it for years and then had a bottle a year or so back which was absolutely incredible. Have you ‘done’ Brussells yet?
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FletchtheMonkey Reply:
February 14th, 2010 at 5:16 pm@Bailey, Not in a beery way, though we spent a night or two there at the end of a summer inter rail trip in 2003, camping on a piece of wasteland under the shadow of the European Parliament building.
Hoping to do it in the next year or so and some of my favourite Belgians a stones throw from where they are brewed. A friend recently did Bruges with his girlfriend and said I’d be in heaven, so there too if I can whisk Sarah away for a weekend.
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WOW whilst i’ve not tried any Belgian beers your description had my mouth watering and wishing i had a beer in my hand.
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Ken February 13th, 2010 at 12:39