Kasteel Rouge

Brewed by Brouwerij Van Honsebrouck
Style: Fruit Beer
Ingelmunster, Belgium

Serve in Flute, Shaker

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Nice dark color in the glass. Amazingly strong cherry aroma, with an even stronger cherry flavor. The beer is VERY sweet and has a great finish that sort of lingers on the back of the tongue for a while.

Pours a dark red color with a reddish foam head. A heavier version of well known Kriek-beers and a good one at that. The cherry aroma is very well presented and you can taste in the distance some nuts. Good kriek.

Bottled on 11/27/07. Poured into a snifter, deep blood red in color. Nose of strong tart and sweet cherries. Head has a pink hue and the lacing has great retention. Cherry coke without the cola. The 8% ABV is well hidden. Too much cherry and the added cherry juice really made it over-powering. I wouldn’t buy again.

Dark purple color with pink head. Aroma of cherries, nuts, lactose. Taste is as the aroma - amazing, you cannot tell that it has 8 procents of alcohol. May be the best fruit beer I had.

Dégusté à l’autre oeil bistro dans un verre trappiste. Version de 330 ml avec l’inscription Kasteel rouge. Une bière d’apparence rouge profond avec une légère gazéfication et un filet de mousse. Une odeur de cerise boisée et de réglisses. Une bière très liquoreuse avec de la pomme grenade et une légère amertume. Une finale bien gazéfier suivis de sucré agréable et de crême soda rouge et de gingembre. Une bière surprenante!

Appearance true reddish brown. Aroma of cherries taste of cherries with a sweet long palate

12 oz bottle in snifter. Huge cherry aromas with alcohol. Pours a dark reddish brown. Clear, clean, small bubble carbonation. Almost all sweet and not bitterness balance. Champagne like body.

(From notes) Bottle. Color is dark red, a bit like red wine. Some pink foam. I can smell something resembling artificial cherry aroma, the kind you would expect to find in sweets. Flavor is a good kind of cherry. Some sourness and alcohol burn after each sip. This was a nice dessert beer, and absolutely a positive surprise. The aroma scared me at first, but this turned out to be a pretty full-bodied, proper cherry beer!

Dark reddish coloured beer with small reddish coloured head.

AROMA: sour cherries APPEARANCE: amber, clear, minimal head, TASTE: medium sweetness, lightly sour, PALATE: medium body, sticky, average carbonation, astringent, OVERALL: sour fruits as to be expected; not my kind of beer.