Rodenbach Grand Cru

Bottle. Body-dark reddish iced tea with a foamy thick ring of bubbles. Looks very much like la Folie, which is o say it is gorgeous. Nose-very sour, cherry mash, light turpentine (in a good way), cherry ice cream, some Chardonnay. Just an excellent nose. Taste-metal, aluminum foil, oak, medium sour, medium acid, malt vinegar, chocolate covered cherries, watered down Dr. Pepper. The only aspect of this beer that is unpleasant is the metal taste. If the metal taste were gone, this may very well be a 4.8 or 4.9.

On tap at Toronado - this stuff is great. Reddish brown color with high carbonation. Sour cherries and raspberries on the aroma. Taste is oak and sour cherry, some funk. Really sour. Lively palate. I hear they didn’t actually use fruit to brew this, which is almost impossible to believe. I drank this way too fast.

Intensely sour ale with a mild malty background. Nose of dark cherries, berries, plums, currants, wood, and earth. Mouthfeel is very puckering and acidic, rather thin. Additional notes of caramel, oak, plums, chocolate. Has a slight vinous quality, and the tartness lasts past the finish. More puckering and refreshing than the Alexander.

330 ml bottle. Clear, dark red body with a small, diminishing brown head. Aroma is acid, fruit and wood. Flavor is complex, sour fruit, acid, wood, ripe berries and cellar notes. This beer has much in common with a geuze, but it is also something completely different. I’m never able to describe the flavor properly, I just love this stuff. It’s a nice refreshing beer and goes also well together with fish soup. One of my all time favorites.

I have a few bottles of this that i’ve been aging just as an experiment, this one had an expiry of 16/5/05. For a beer almost 4 years past it’s expiry date this beer has done really well! Woody black doris plum nose, it looks great in the glass! This beer is so amazingly smooth, it’s surprisingly sweet to start and then finishes with that lovely iron tart finish but has evened out really well.

Pretty reddish brown color with a beautiful ruby hue. Pretty cream head. Aroma remniscent of berries and vanilla, with a rather strong sour nose. Taste of oak, red wine,fruits and balanced but strong sours. Definately a great and unique beer.

750mL bottle, a gift from Donfardz64. Pours a beautiful ruby hue. Tangy, sour aroma hits you as soon as the cork is popped. Nose is full of raspberries and boysenberry. Gorgeous. Incredibly complex flavours, mostly of berry fruit with a hint of cherry sweetness behind the immense sourness. Oak makes itself known, as it should. Amazing beer.

Bottle. Dark ruby brown with thin head. Sour obviously and not a taste I’ve acquired yet but the sourness is in balance. Aroma is sour as is the taste, balsamic vinegar, raspberries and berryish type flavour. Not bad.