Thiriez La Rouge Flamande

Brewed by Brasserie Thiriez
Style: Belgian Ale
Esquelbecq, France

75cl from uto. Brown-amber with white head. Aroma of butter toffee, cherries and oddly, glazed ham. Taste of yeast, caramel and brown sugar. Some spice and oranges in the finish. It has progressed from awful to ok. I think this has a lot to do with the temperature. The flavour has filled out as it has gotten warmer, but it’s still not great. Thin bodied and boring. Yawn.

Bottle, 33 cl. (from Mi Orge Mi houblon) Hazy, dark amber red , with big beige head. Aroma some caramel, fruity, malts. Medium body. Taste sweet, malts, little yeast, fruit touch. Finish = good bitter. Not bad.

Bouteille 33 cl. Dégusté avec french tickler et Agaguk. Biere de couleur brun foncé brumeuse avec un moyen collet moyennement collant. Odeur de cerises, alcohol, sel de mer, citron et jus de pomme. Un peu surette. Saveur de pommes, sucre, cerises et pemplemousse.

Bottle shared with French Ticker and Pyroziod. Golden, cloudy with a light head. Aroma: sour candy, grape fruit, crab apples, pear. Flavor: rasberrys, peach, apples. Palate: fizzy with a dry finish.

re-rate, bottled: Aroma is spicy, clove and prune. Hazy, redish brown color, beige head, good lace. Light sweet, spices, clove, bitter, light grainy, prune, medium body. Pretty standard Belgian ale. Feb 2002, bottled, 3.5: I was really excited when I found this bottle. I love most of the beers from du Nord in France. And it had the looks as well - red, creamy foam and fair lacing. But the aroma ... grain and plastic doesn’t do it for me. I was not so eager to taste it but luckily the flavors where ok. Soft, light sweet, light bitter, hoppy and good balanced. Nice hoppy finish as well.

Nice reddish amber color with a small slight colored head. The smell is soft and has aroma’s of bisquits, malts, soft spices and tropical wood. The taste is smooth, dryish slight sweet, has hints of céreal cookies, malts, pepper, nutmeg, cigare case and some hops. This beer has good drinkabelity and the afthertaste is elegant.

Hazy copper, big fat head, lots of little floaties. Sweet millky caramel aroma with minerals and hops. Thin in body with some astringency. Earthy, borderline dirty flavor, a bit peppery. Has some distinct elements but overall doesn’t come together.

Bottled (BB 08/2007).
Amber color, mostly vanishing head. Crisp, lemony hoppy nose, hints of fruits and metal. Crisp, malty, candy sugar sweetness. Kind of gross-over of sweet Dutch ale and a bière de Garde.