Verhaeghe Duchesse De Bourgogne

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

This beer is really very good. loved evey minute of it. Though it can be hit and miss. make sure it is not too old.

Quite good with a nice balance between the sweet and the sour. Some hard fruit in there.

Purchased this as Vintage Estate in Boardman, OH. Couldn’t wait to try this as I had been bred to expect the sour to eat my face off. While it wasn’t really that sour, it was still damn solid. Appears a very dark red with that great belgian head and lace. Smells like nail polish at first! After you keep trying, you can get some sour apples though. Taste isn’t nearly as sour as the nose would have you believe, though you still get hints of something I can only describe as nail polish remover. The strange thing is, it works. Light sour ints of grape and apple. Mouth is medium with relatively high carbonation. This is a good beer and I look forward to trying it again, though I can’t see where all the sour hype comes from! This is nothing to a Cantillion Kriek.

Aroma of aged cider and some vinegar. Appearance is dark red with creamy head that was ever present. Flavor of dark apple cider and light cinnamon spice, champagne and red grapes. Palate was lively and bubbly. This beer made me a believer in this style, which has never been my favorite.

Very nice sour and fruity aroma builds up expectations of a refreshing beer. The taste starts rich fruity and sour, however sweetness overwhelms everything else, and the after-taste is sweet as well. Not to my taste - too sweet. I prefer Rodenbach - it’s taste is somewhat similar but without the sweetness which spoils this beer.

Bottle. Umm pour is nice... Well thats the end of the positive. This beer tastes like balsamic vinegar. EWW, Im not sure what is going on with this. I enjoy sour ales and this was pitiful. I am sorry to those i shared this bottle with. LOW SCORE ALERT, well I meant to give this beer a low score, a sip and then a drain pour.

Sweet and sour, though not at all acetic aroma, very lactic, very fruity, with caramel. Also medium brown with lots of orange. Sweeter, fruitier flavor, a bit sour, no vinegar. Creamy. Well balanced, but a bit normal. Slightly woody with a bit of tannin in the finish. Very nice balance of sweet and sour. Smooth and silky, with no harsh notes.

Dark red/amber/ruby-coloured beer with a white , dense and sticky head. Aromas of fruit, berries, lambic. tastes the same, with lots of fruits, a bit acidic, lots of carbonation. Refreshing and tasty.