De Ranke Guldenberg

Brewed by Brouwerij De Ranke
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Dottignies/Dottenijs, Belgium

Bottle thanx to Henrikb. Golden colour with a big white head. Fruity, hoppy, light yeasty aroma and a sweet fruity taste. Medium body with a sweet finish.
Earlier Rating: 4/3/2005 Total Score: 3.8
Zythos Beer Festival, Sint-Niklaas, Belgium 2005. Cloudy golden colour with a big white head. Spicy grassy yeasty aroma and a very bitter taste. Medium body and a very bitter finish. 6-3-6-3-14 RE-RATE Draught. Hazy orange colour with a big white head. Yeasty, fruity aroma and a sweet hoppy, fruity, yeasty taste. Medium body with a bitter dry light ´sweet finish. 6-4-7-4-17

bottle. yellow color. corn aroma. quite fresh. bit sweet. typical pilsner.
Earlier Rating: 8/12/2006 Total Score: 3.2
bottle. pale yellow color. honey sweet. goes down easy. bit spicy and dry.

Pours a clear golden with nice white head and lacings. Sweet and slightly sour. Very much like Guldenberg, just fresher. Very similar, but better.
Earlier Rating: 7/19/2006 Total Score: 3.5
Pours a clear golden with nice white head and lacings. Nice and mild sweetness. Slightly spiced. Dry finish. hides alcohol very well. Quite trippelish. Good and very easygoing.

Bottle sampled with Beerded_one. Blue and white paper wrapper, peeled that off capped with a cork inside. Pop the cork and it starts to smoke, we pass it around sniffing the smoke and the head starts to rise passed the top, don’t be alarmed i saved it from hitting the ground. The pour is amazing orange\copper body underneath a large quickly rising off-white head with good retention. The aroma is heavenly, citrus, hops, belgian spices, sweetness, and fruit. The flavor is slightly hoppy, sweet, loads of citrus, slight fruit, smooth, and well balanced. Good healthy body, great brew.

Bottle. Clear golden in colour with a white head. Easy drinkable. Mild sweetness and slighyly spicy and also a slightly dry.

Bottle, 33cl. A very discreet label for a very good beer. Hazy orange topped by a medium off-white head. Some residue in the end. Aroma isn’t very intense: some notes of fruits, specially of orange and litchis. Flavour is great, strong and not as sweet as others belgian strong ales. Spicy and yeasty, this beer is really pleasant, with the dry finish and small bitterness giving it the right balance. Lovely beer!

Bottled, this poured deep golden with a bright white head. I found the aroma to be musty and pungent. The first tastes were yeasty and earthy with a glint of honey and a slight hoppy bitterness in the finish. For some reason I anticipated a tartness that never came to fruition, but this was enjoyable enough.

Pours orange with a huge white head. Very yeasty and peppery nose. Strangely peaty, too, like a watered-down Islay Scotch; the peat calms down after a few minutes (I think it’s the hop aroma before it settles into a nice orange and earth smell). There’s sweetness in the background which manifests itself as a floral honey. The flavor is initially yeasty, but soon settles into a stale smokiness against a background of honey. The finish is lightly hoppy. The mouthfeel could stand to be thicker.