UPDATED: MAR 1, 2024 12 oz can from Total Wine and More in Short Pump, VA The ale poured a clear dark amber with an off-white head and limited lacing. The aroma of orange peel and cherries greets you. The taste is dry but with more cherries, citrus, and caramel malts. The ale has aa medium body and soft carbonation. It is a unique ale.

UPDATED: JAN 23, 2024 Pours mostly clear red. Smells of toasted caramel malt and berries. The flavor is sweet and caramelly with some berries and a slight tartness. Pretty good.

UPDATED: NOV 11, 2023 Not too sure what beer others are tasting here but, this can is simply an insult to the name Rodenbach, it tastes nothing like the fine famous flemish beers of the big R. Maybe nobody here ever tasted the rodenbach? I love all rodie brews, but Rodie ought to sue them for having their logo on this bitter ass stupid straight up sucky brew. False advertising, a bait and switch if you ask me, maybe I'll do the suing, a class action suit. WTF. I'm totally insulted. Even if I did get this off the mixed six market district rack for 13$. What does that make it? $2? It aint worth it. The only thing this stuff has in common with Rodenbach, is the color. Go suck an egg, Boston Beer Co, a big fat moby. You BBC, suck as bad as the BBC broadcasting company, hehehh. Yea this stuff is an immature astringent bitter phenolic shitty bitter, a know nothing brewer brewing for the first time, could do a better job than this when making their first IPA. Here on RB, its styled as a Flemish; F that! Its a stupid ass shitty nasty attempt at an IPA. There, you have it.

UPDATED: SEP 2, 2023 12 ounce bottle from The Beer Trappe, 9/2/23. Dark brown-red, medium tan head, average retention. Aroma of cherry, caramel. Taste is vinegar, cherry, leather, plum, pepper. Mild tartness. Nice.

UPDATED: AUG 24, 2023 Bottle: Poured a clear deep reddish color ale with a small foamy head with some retention and lacing,. Aroma of cherry and oak notes with some medicinal notes also perceptible. Taste is a mix of cherry, oak and some light sweet caramelized malt notes with some medical notes also perceptible. Body is about average with good carbonation. Different and interesting but not something I would seek on a regular basis.

UPDATED: JUL 18, 2023 Amber color with a small white head that left light lacing on the glass. Citrus, caramel, cherry, raspberry, sumac, vinegar, and light tartness in the finish.

UPDATED: JUN 11, 2023 12oz bottle. Interesting flavor profile, but rather weak for the style. The base beer's sumac component is interesting to me. Kind of centered around the orange peel, the mix is mellow and sublime, sort of nullifying any sour tones the Grand Cru brought it, leaving some mellow cherry sumac over amber malt. I get very little hop tone. Drinkable, unique.

UPDATED: JUN 24, 2023 Amber-red in color with a two-finger head. Aroma is berry, fruit and spices. Taste is also berry, fruit and spices.

UPDATED: MAY 31, 2023 Bottle. Pours hazy amber with an off-white head. Malt, cherry and oak notes, medicinal, not much tartness.

UPDATED: MAY 23, 2023 Refrigerated 12 oz brown bottle poured into a tulip. Aroma is tart fruit, medium body, medium/lower carbonation, and little lacing. Taste is tart fruit.