Notes on beers in the style
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Murky brown color which is not especially attractive, looks drab. The head is OK given the beer, and recedes, as expected, to a thinnish collar. In better light the beer looks like it has some more crimson/purple hue. Nose is a very woody based...
330 mL bottle, reddish-purple foiled and capped. 30.06.24. Pour is a dark purplish, burgundy body with decent clarity, and a light pinkish foam. The head is not very well retained in general, but it does leave a thin film and a decent ring around...
11.2 oz can, from Belgian Style Ales here in the US. Pour is as expected with the Coke like head that is gone in seconds. Zero retention, zero lace. As expected. Great garnet red color as the light hits it. Nose is indistinguishable from its bigger...
Reports suggest that this beer is now re-branded as Duchesse Cherry, coincidently recent reviewed. As such, these notes are essentially on an aged version of that beer. I've learned a LOT about old/cellared beer over the years. As a result, I've...
Reports suggest that this beer is just a re-branded version of Echt Krienenbier coincidently recently reviewed. As such, these notes are on essentially a fresh version of that beer. 11.2 oz single from Gays, Angola, IN. Odd find in a weird place....
750 mL, capped and corked bottle. Pour offers a frankly unattractive, murky, reddish-brown body with little to no head. Some acidic fruit on the nose, and a bit of malty bread. The first couple of gulps are full of ethanoic acid and it burns a...
OK, so what do we have here? An Oud Bruin? A Flanders Red? An American Wild Ale with a Belgian yeast, twist? Something else? 22 oz bottle. Initial, fizzy head breaks down to nothing and leaves a reddish, tea-colored liquid. Looks dead, but still...
Everything about this beer says authentic. The light vinegar tartness with the sweet and sour combo, through to the slightly prickly carbonation, and on to the ABV and the drinkability. Each remind me of the best Flanders Reds. I'm tempted to go as...
750 mL bottle, $16.99. I've passed on this several years in the past but today it seemed to speak to me a little. Bottled 07/25/13. Flemish Style Red Ale Aged in Oak. Authentic pour. Drab, brown pour and with little or no head. Some thin collar and...
Chestnut brown pour with a better than anticipated head on the aggressive pour. JesterKing classes this a 'Barrel Aged Sour Red'. Unfiltered, unpasteurized and aged on oak barrels. Some mid-level ethanoic acid on the nose amongst some organic wafts...
12.7oz bottle that is really heavy. Very thick glass on this one. Annoyingly hard to remove cork under the cage, eventually meant that I had to extract it with a 'Lazy Fish' corkscrew. Decent pop - at least we have some carbonation! Pour looks as...
750 mL, corked & caged from Brawley's, Charlotte, NC. 2009 vintage, $19.99. No hint of a pop on opening. Pour gives some more head than I was expecting but no lace and only a thin film is left behind after a couple of minutes. The body is a light,...
*SHRUG* I have literally no idea what is going on here. If the attempt was to make a Flanders Red then this is a complete failure. If they wanted to produce a slightly watered down version of a DIPA, then success! $14.99 (at least), in some...
12.7 oz, mini-champagne bottle, complete with green glass and dimpled bottom. Very different to the current picture in the BA db. Thick glass with black foiled neck and neck label. Bottle has a confusing date. It literally says "Bottled On", 090414...
Part of the new wave of Lips of Faith releases, this one in the silk-screened, Lips of Faith series as a 22oz bottle rather than the corked and caged affairs of years past. I bet the purists are saying, "it's just not the same". Having not tasted...
Stumbled across this at Summits Wayside, Woodstock, GA, USA last week and was delighted to see it. I thought that I was going to miss out on this brew, but happily got to catch up with it by chance. Served in a Gulden Draak tulip, the beer sits...
Updated notes 04/27/25 pictured One could argue that my notes from the best part of 20 years ago show a lot of ignorance. However, that isn't quite true. What they do is reflect that fact that I simply don't enjoy drinking Rodenbach Grand Cru very...
Updated notes 02/26/25. Pictured. The palate evolves. And the best part of 20 years on I still don't love Rodenbach, BUT at warmer temperatures this beer almost feels bland to me thse days. Maybe it has evolved too, but my notes below would be...
This was pretty much exactly what I thought it would be. If you were brought up like I was, in an area of England renowned for its cider production, then this will remind you very much of a dry, genuine "scrumpy" farmhouse cider. The only...