De Ranke Guldenberg

Brewed by Brouwerij De Ranke
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Dottignies/Dottenijs, Belgium

Bottle from Bottleworks. Pours a nice honey amber, with a thick, off-white head. Really delicious aroma. Apple cider, honey, champagne, and Belgian yeast cover a moderate hop bill. The flavor isn’t as sweet as the aroma lets on - it’s a little more bready and dry, with mild citrus rind and the yeast showing through. Crisp, with a flavor that really lingers - this is really tasty stuff!

cloudy dark yellow, smooth lacing offwhite creamy head. yeasty sweet yellow fruity aroma, well balanced and blended mild aroma. flavor is yeasty, dough, malty sweetness, balanced, hoppy, not the usual yellow fruity flavor, but a more dry flavor, dough and flour is prominent. A bit strange, but good anyways.

0,75 l bottle with a paper wrapper, bought in BeerTempel, Bruxelles.
Pored hazy gold with a medium white, creamy head that diminishes slowly to a delicious lacing one. Sourish and floral aroma with resinous hop, citrusses and grapefruit because of it, some caramel, malt. Medium body with a malty-honey flavor, but after a while the hop explodes on the palate and it is dominates the flavor. Fine, powerful hop with resin, citrusses and grapefruit. Like an IPA... Dry bitter aftertaste. Nice one from the side of the hoppy beers...

ABsolutely good, some weeks without trying something this fine in Belgian styles. I like thecoriander features and the orange peel aromas.

Date: January 05, 2010
Mode: Draft
Source: Brick Store Pub
Appearance: cloudy yellow, big white head, layers of lace
Aroma: light spicy malt aroma
Flavor: dry and spicy flavor, dry pale malt, nice and mellow spicy phenols, touch of sweetness shows up to balance the spicyness
Aroma: 5/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 5/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 11/20
Rating: 2.8/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: ** /4

Bottle. Vibrant orangey brown beer with a strong white head. The aroma is deeply bitter and spiced, and the flavour is very bitter and quite heavily spiced. Overall a fairly average Belgian beer, quite strong tasting but not very vibrant.

33cl bottle $3.99 at the local. I really didn’t know what to expect from this but it was good. Cloudy orange yellow with good head and lacing. The smell was kind of like a tripel or belgian pale, a little spice. The flavor was smooth but a little yeasty and very easy to drink. I’m not sure I’d buy this on the reg but De Ranke beers are interesting enough that I’d liek to try them all. Serving type: on-tap Reviewed on: 02-09-2010 03:53:05

Bottle. Pour is hazy golden with a large white head. Aroma is dry hop, light hay, malt, and a touch of bread. Flavor is also pretty dry with a light floral hop character, light malt, some champagne-like notes, and a touch of yeast in the finish. Solid but not overwhelming.