Cuvée De Ranke

Brewed by Brouwerij De Ranke
Style: Sour Ale/Wild Ale
Dottignies/Dottenijs, Belgium

Serve in Snifter, Tulip, Tumbler

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6 oz pour shared at Delilah’s by the BA guys. Thanks! Pours a nice murky orange amber hue, wirh a sunfire glowing edges. A small frothy whitish head dies to a small ring and laces small. Aromas are touches of estery fruit, pears and bananas, lemons and apples. Some crisp bready malts with a definite lambic element on the backend, with some tart acidity, funky with some sweet tarts. Bread dough, some horseblanket, and hay. Big fruity element up front. Initial is fruity up front, coarse wheat bread and fruity lemons, pears, and apples. Some crisp orange peel, wet sour fruits, with some hay, straw, stale grins and growing lactic acid on the backend. Some more funkiness, a lot of lactic acid as it gets really yogurty and fruity. Decent sourness, but the acidity grows on the back of the throat. Not bad, some good lambic elements, fairly sweet up front. Not bad, but too sweet for me.

Bottle @ DØE meeting. Pours hazy light orange with a small white head. Aroma is nicely balanced sour with lemon, oak, barnyard, brett, little dusty. Taste is sour grapes, hints of lemonpeel, brett, dusty, barnyard. Thin body, lively, nice dry tart finish. 160512

75cl bottle tasting with Wim and Yves. Darker blond coloured beer with some slight hazy touches. Almost no carbonation and a small white head. Rather special, sour earthy and grainy hinted aroma. Full palate. Finish is sour bitter balanced with again some grainy sour hints. Nice alternative brew.

Clear goldblond coloured beer with small white head and no carbonation visible. Sour spiced aroma. Full palate. Finish is rather sour and dry. Nice!

Thanks to Blankboy. Appearance: slightly cloudy orange, small perfectly white head. Aroma: Sour, lots of funkiness, tart. Flavour: so tart, lovely and sour, nice yeast notes, very farmhouse like, nice and dry, long sour finish. Delicious.

21st July 2009
Hazy gold beer. Thin white head. Crisp dry palate. Sour and tart but not too acid lemon. Very dry finish.

Clear amber with a lasting white head. Aroma is sweet, malty, citrus, barnyard and wood. Flavor is quite sweet, moderate sour and moderate acidic. Rather dry and moderate acidic finish. 210412

A very sour and bitter beer with some flowery notes and some sweetness. Amber in color with a white head.

The regular paper covered green 0.75cl bottle, reviewed when fairly young (drank Sep 2011, Best before date of Jan 2015). Poured slowly into three different glasses, the last one getting some of the sediment within it. Two glasses of clear light amber sat in front of me, the third being a bit darker and not so clear to the eye: none had much of a head, I blame the slow pour and young age of the brew. The smell and taste were as follows: Yeasty cooking apples with an side dish of semi-acidic pears which have began to rot because of over ripeness. I really liked it, refreshing and different.

Hazy straw. Medium white head with some staying power. Plenty of lacing. Peaches and apricots in the nose. Sweet and bitter up front. Acetic in the mouth and in the nose. Sour on the back. Decent.

750 ml bottle courtesy of tkrjukoff. Shared at epic tasting on February 11. Pours hazy golden with a reddish white head that leaves some trace while dissipating. Smell is sour and slightly sweet with orange juice, honey, lemon zest, bread and barnyard. Taste is sour, slightly bitter and slightly sweet with sweet fruits, lemon juice, orange peal and brett. Mouthfeel is tart and medium-bodied. Finish is tart with lots of citrus.