Schoune Reb’Ale

Brewed by Ferme Brasserie Schoune
Style: Belgian Ale
St-Polycarpe, Canada

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

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Bottle. Murky grey/yellow color, lots of yeast. Rubber aroma, fruity, berries, vinegar. Vinegar and berry flavor. Sour ale-feeling and not good.

Very fruity, quite sweet. Redcurrants, sweet apples. Belgian sourness in the background. Pleasant, long lingering rhubarb finish.

Bottle. Pours a brown dirty water type of color with a small white head. Aroma is of vinegar, caramel , toffee and some breadiness. It smells like the 1608 just with vinegar and bready notes. The flavor is slightly sour, not sour in the way of lambics or flanders browns but in the way of infected beer. On top of that you get the caramel and toffee and some breadiness. The body is medium with a slightly dry mouthfeel. Overall a really bad brew, how the hell did this ever win a bronze medal at the Chicago Beer Cup. I hope this was an infected bottle and that the real brew isn’t this bad!

Foggy brown-amber body with almost no head. Just like all their other beers! Aroma of sewage and wet farts, like when the garburateur acts up and belches up some bad stench of some rotten cabbage you had for dinner last week. Flavour is a mix of grass and malt, something like wild rice that has been roasted and then thrown in your backyard to ferment while it’s raining. Where the hell’s the rousse? I’m no big rousse fan but this is really bad stuff by any measure... and according to the label it won a gold medal in Chicago in 1998! Ha!

Bottle at home. Cloudy red/brown - white head. Red berries, fruity, rubber, sweetness, nutty, light hoppy, yeasty, herbal, light spicy. Plain.

Bottle. Pours a clear amber color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty caramel aroma. Fruity malty caramel flavor. Has a truity malty caramel finsh with some tart hints.

17-SEP-2010, bottle @home, present from Cecilie. Had this (same batch) about a year or maybe two ago. At that time so horrible I did not bother to rate it. Now let me try again... ...Cloudy light amber with lasting white head. Good looking:) Nose is slightly sour with charamel. Last time the sourness seemed like a flaw. but this time it comes out as a fine sour ale. Not overly sour just wine-like. I quite like it. A year or two in the cellar and it is a fine brew. Thank you, Cecilie:)

Bottle at KØ10. Sweet syrupy fruit aroma. Cloudy red amber colour. No head. The flavour is sweet with a tart fruitiness.

Fløska. Fremented old food bit pukey aroma, sweet caramel, light infection. Sweet fruity caramel lightly sour flavour.

Bottle. Cloudy orange with a small off white head. Puke, old fruit, acid and socks used for 1 week in a row. This is so bad. The flavour is caramel, bit acid and some balsamicco.