Rodenbach Grand Cru

Brewed by Brouwerij Rodenbach (Palm)
Style: Sour Ale
Roeselare, Belgium

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.

33CL bottle, bought at the bierkoning. Deep dark sour grand cru. A little bit of carbonation. Nice try :)

330mL bottle from Willis St Metro New World. Very sexy pour. Cloudy ruby with a tan head, looks great in a chalice. Incredibly sour aroma, unlike anything else I’ve experienced. Vinous and full of berries, this is a challenging aroma which will either scare or excite. I am excited. Taste is as sour as the aroma, but with berry sweetness that makes it quite bearable. The two year oak maturation makes itself known with oaky tones showing through the strong sourness. Boysenberries and raspberries bring a strong vinous fruity character. Overall, Grand Cru reminds me of a lambic in that no malt is detected, and is incredibly fruity. However, is also unlike any other beer I have tried yet. With an overwhelmingly sour taste, still maintaining such a complex fruity flavour this is one of a kind. The finish is long and sour, begging for more. Rodenbach Grand Cru is in my top 10 beers for sure.

bottle poured into tumbler. golden brown color with slight head. Aroma resembles more a champagne than a beer. flavor is very sour with a fermented fruit flavor sweet like an apple. Very carbonated and fizzy. It was good but definitely a sipper. A little too tart for my usual tastes

Bottle. Pours a deep brownish amber with a cream-colored fuzzy head, a little lacing. Nose of tart fruit, oak, vanilla, some acetic like a fine balsamic vinegar. Tart, sour, oak tannins and some vanilla, some caramelized fruit, crisp apples, cherries, hints of phantom sweetness. Slightly drying, nice smooth carbonation, full mouthfeel. Not on the level of a traditional gueuze in sourness, nice restrained complexity, incredibly drinkable.

My first sour ale. Amber red appearance with orange highlight, creamy non lasting top, semi-transparent. Smells of yellow grapes, lemon, grapefruit, and SOUR APPLES. Tangy and sour pinch of apples, cinnamon, grapes, heavy sugar, cherry, light carbonation. Very unique