Verhaeghe Duchesse De Bourgogne

Brewed by Verhaeghe
Style: Sour Ale
Vichte, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium

33 cl bottle. Reddish brown with off-white head. Small tight dense bubbles. Aroma is full of balsamic vinegar, cherries and brown sugar. Lovely balance between sweetness and puckery sourness. Flavor continues with cherry & balsamic theme. Simultaneously refreshing and filling. TCR = 3.5

750ml bottle. Pours dark redish brown with a quickly discipating creamy white head. Initial aroma is sweet fruit with slight vinous and/or acetic elements. Body is medium full mainly from the younger of the blend. Depending on the age of the blend the sourness will vary. This sample was much more sour than others that I have had that have been almost cloyingly sweet. This beer is outstanding. A good balance between the younger more sweet beer in the blend and the assertively sour older beer. I recommend letting the beer age more so that the balance is there, as well as the complexity. A great beer to end the night of tasting on.

( 750ml bottle exp 12/09) pours murky brownish red with nice fluffy white head and excellent lacing. Nose is vinous, fruity, and wood. Taste is lightly sour, some molasses, creamy, dried fruits, tons of wood and absolutely delicious. This has aged exceptionally and the creamy carbonation has benefitted as a result. Age one if you can!

11.2 ounce bottle from Tres Bon Cuisine. Pours a ruddy brown color with a medium white head. The aroma is very vinous; sweet sugary grapes. The flavor is nice; a rich mix of grapes, fruity flavors, yeast and some wood. Slightly sour. Pretty nice.

Pours a coca-cola brown with thin tan head. Nose is a little cola like as well, but together with sour passion fruits. Very complex, like that miscellanious "passion fruits" flavor in many products/fragrances. Cherry is one that might stick out, but very complex on the whole. Slight hint of pipe tobacco. On the palate is a delightful explosion of vinegary sourness together with burnt sugar sweetnes mingled with passion fruit. A darker, molasses to toffee cake sweetness is found at the back of the palate and into the finish. Finish is very cola-syrup extract like in sweetness. Nice and appetizing for the next sip. Reminds me of those coca-cola ink pens from childhood, the ones with the fragrance in the ink.

Strong vinegar aroma. Nice dark amber colour, no lacing. Strong balsamic vinegar taste. Overall not bad ,not good.

From the bottle this gem poured an dark amber color with a foamy tan head. Aroma of raisin, cherry, vinegar and sugar. Taste was a very sweet, tart raisin, wine and vinegar - very enjoyeable. This is a brew I would buy to keep on hand to share with friends .

(bottle) pours a clear ruby-amber colour with a frothy off-white head. aroma of grape juice and earth, with a hint of funk and powdered sugar. flavour is sweet musty red grapes with a rice cake finish. medium body and carbonation.