Rodenbach

Brewed by Brouwerij Rodenbach (Palm)
Style: Sour Red/Brown
Roeselare, Belgium

Serve in Snifter, Tulip, Tumbler

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33cl bottle @ home. Its a nice red beer with a great head. Taste and smell is like a wine. I’m not a wine-drinker but I liked the beer.

Bottle 33cl. Head: beige, small, avg. retention. Colour: deep red-brown. Aroma: dark dry fruit (prune), wine/vinegar, sharp yeasty / barnyard. Taste: sour, but not really acid, some dried fruit too. Not really my thing, but interesting. Y

corked 750: pour is brown with ruby/amber highlights. aroma of dark fruit, plum, cherry, oak. flavour is tart dark fruit, woody oak. bready malt. cola like sweetness at times combines with low acid tart sourness.

2012 Vintage. 250mL bottle at DHVL, pours a opaque dark amber brown with a medium beige head. Aroma of dark stone fruits oak, and bready malts. Flavour brings out muted dark stone fruits, a tinge of oak character, and bready malts. Pretty simply beer, which is nice to try so you can appreciate all the other Rodenbach beers for a point of comparison. Not very complex or with many layers -- but solid stuff and drinkable.

UPDATED: MAY 10, 2013 Bottle at Stubbies in Gaineville poured ini Rodenbach tulip. Not what I was expecting after having their Vintage 2010. Really more of a quad, dubbel, or Belgian dark. Pours dark brownish res with a thin fluffy head on top. Aroma of plums and cherry, with verry littke sourness. Flavor follows, with some additional strong malt flavor and a bit of molasses, black cherry and a hint of funk. A very good and flavorful beer but not on style here. Medium to heavy slick mouthfeel, soft and smooth on the palate.

250ml bottle. Dark brown-red colour, thin beige head and aroma of wine, vinegar, dark fruits, barnyard. Taste is sour, with tart lemon, sweet cherry & plum, plus woody oak & cola-like notes and some light bitterness & biscuity malt in the finish. Slick mouth feel, light bodied, medium carbonation. Quite drinkable.

Pours dark brown with a small tan head. Aroma is vinegar and oak (maybe a lttle lemon too). Taste is beautiful. I was expecting something very sour. Instead, I get faint lemon followed immediately by smooth oak and a significant sweet syrup. The finish eases in with smooth malts. A truly complex sour.

After drinking the king of sours, the bruery’s version, this is lackluster. Hopefully, the duchess is better.

Nice, almost cola-colored beer with a slightly grey-like foamy head. It has a slightly sour aroma which reminds me of champagne. It also tastes a bit sour and champagne-like, but the aftertaste resembles the taste of bread. Strange, but interesting beer. Donkerrood, bijna colakleurig bier met een grijsbruine schuimkraag. Het aroma is licht zurig en lijk op champagne, maar je moet het zoeken. De smaak is eveneens zurig en champagne-achtig. De nasmaak heeft iets weg van brood. Apart, en interessant bier.

Deep plum color. 2 inch tan head. Sweet strawberry amd blackberry aroma. Tastes like a creamy fruit rollup smoothie. The most refreshing beer in the world? I thought that title belonged to coors light. The metallic aftertaste doesn’t help either one.