De Ranke Noir De Dottignies

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

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

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Sampled at EBF2008. Pours a dark amber colored beer with an offwhite head. The aroma is malts and fruit. The flavor is malt, sweetness and hops. The mouthfeel leaves some bitterness. Nice beer.

<i>At Bruxellensis 2008</i> Muddy/shunky brown body. Off-white head. Sweet caramel, hoppy aroma. Heavily bitter, lightly sweet flavour with a typical De Ranke touch. Nice bitter dark beer. Well balanced with nice hoppy hints.

From tap at Bruxellensis 2008. Cloudy copper-brown with a big, steady and lacing tan head. Cinnamon, fruit, chocolate aroma. Milk chocolate blending with tart fruit cannot go wrong, can it? Especially not if balanced by healthy bitterness. Quite full-bodied. One of the best Wallonian brunes?

Rating #33from the european beer festival 2008. Hazy brown look. Has a nice fruity aroma of banana and dark fruits along with some light vinouse notes. Sweet fruity flavor, cane suger and not alot of bitterness. Good standard belgian.

Small light beige head. Deep brown lightly hazy body. Fruity tea aroma with malty notes. Sweetish fruity roasty barnyard taste with acidic notes. Fizzy mouthfeel, somewhat chalky. Aftertaste of dried fruit. Nice. (0.1l taster from bottle at EBF ’08.)

Draught @ Den Tatoverede Enke, Copenhagen, Denmark. Unclear medium to light dark amber color with a average, frothy to creamy, good lacing, fully lasting, off-white to beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, caramel, dusty, moderate to light heavy hoppy, grass, light to moderate yeasty. Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet amd moderate to heavy bitter with a long duration, and a dry dry finish. (Sweetness is like belgium yeast). Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. Very nice. (190708)

Bottle, EBF2008, weak aroma, hard to discern details, but it smells good, almost clear brown, with yellow head, flavor is mixed fruityness, nice flavors, sort of weak though,

(Bottled) Very hazy reddish amber with a small, tanned head. Sweetish, dark-fruity, lightly yeasty aroma. Sweetish, a bit vegetably flavor with roasted malt, hints of ashiness and some yeast. Medium, somewhat sticky body with medium carbonation. Ok, but not a great effort considering the skills of De Ranke.

Bottle at GBBF with shack of disco party disco boyz. Alround rating: A tremendously boring belgian ales from one of the m,ost exciting brewers in the world. Dark malt, yeasty, estery, next!

Bottle.33cl. Fine beer, bread and toast, brown, hazy, a minimal head, medium sweetness, lightly bitter, salty.