From old tasting notes. Reddish brown color with a huge tan head capping lots of big bubbles. Sweet caramel-like roasted malt aroma. Flavor follows the nose with a candy-like quality. Big warming alcohol prescence. Intense bittersweet malt flavor. Caramel, bread, nutty and earthy. Excellent.

The beer label says Maredsous Dobbel. This is the closest I could find. Pours brown caramel in the glass. Nose and taste of sweetness, dougs and beet sugars. Rated 6/15/2000

!Sample of indeterminable age - well-aged, we'll call it. Maredsous 6° is rare, even at Belgian beershops, so I had to take what I had 'in store'. Colour dark-amber to red chestnut, with golden shine at the edges. Slight, but quite stable, irregular yellowish head. Nose means madeira, oxidation, nutty and very outspoken honey. Taste is nutty again, still bitterish main taste with underlying malt. Peppery retronasal flavour. Mouthfeel is still surprisingly very carbonated, even spritzy. Light bodied, but visceous at the same time, not at all watery. Aftertaste mainly madeirisation flavour. It is debatable whether this represents the current beerstyle,but it remains above arguing that a relatively light beer keeping up so well, is a good indication of original quality.