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Rodenbach Caractère Rouge

Brouwerij Rodenbach (Swinkels Family Brewers)
Roeselare, West Flanders
Beer style: Sour Flemish Ale - Flanders Red / Oud Bruin
Ref: ratebeer.com Apr2024

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The brewer allow the beer to macerate with fresh cherries, raspberries and cranberries. After this maceration in oak, the beer re-ferments in the bottle. The result is RODENBACH Caractère Rouge, an exceptional RODENBACH with fruit maceration and a 7% alcohol volume. The brew is more than unique and extremely exclusive, as only 900 75-cl bottles were produced. Geunes serves this wilful beer as part of his other unique range of beer varieties in his restaurant, ’t Zilte, at the Antwerp MAS museum.