Rodenbach Alexander

Formerly brewed at Brouwerij Rodenbach (Palm)
Style: Sour Ale
Roeselare, Belgium

33 cL bottle, age unknown…intense sour cherry aroma rushes out of the bottle, even before the pour. Deeply bronzed, ruby colour with an initially full, tight bubbled head that quickly dies into nothing…cherry skin aroma with a grassy barnyard quality. Abundant dry, sour cherries turn very woody through the finish, bitterness follows with a slight cherry oxidation. Held up pretty well, but I was expecting a slight more flaovurful, complex treat…

330ml bottle. Whoo hoo! Dirty funk on on the nose. Earthy, musty with tons of rotting, juicy cherries. Soaking wet oak. A bit of sweeter balsamic. Definitely more sweet than sour. Pours a muddy, thick and earthy brown. Nearly lifeless appearance save for a very thin film of grey on top and a brown/white ring around the sides of the glasss. Slightly tart bing cherry juice that has been aged in oak for a few days. Brown sugar sweentess. Not overly sour, not overly sweet. Pleasant. Refreshing. Showing it’s age a bit. Medium on the tongue with a bit of pleasant acidity on the finish. Don’t think about this one too much and it will treat you well. Thanks Eben!

Soft sensual sweet sour aroma, like the most calming smelling salts you ever have experienced,taste wow, the mellowest sweet sour fruitiness,taste you can imagine,but sourness is definitely there,taste is as smooth as silk, finish is so heavenly, I feel very privliged to have tasted this

Finally I get to try this!!!One of the nicest looking red colors I have seen on a beer.Lots of funk and sweetness of cherries on the nose.The flavor was devine.Lots of vinous cherries with some wood notes.Slightly funky with a touch of sweetness.Thank you Ron from Shipyard for sharing this!

Poured from a 33 cl bottle. Basic clear red and a wispy white film. Huge aroma of musty cherry tobacco, maraschino cherry, champagne vinegar and vinaigrette. It has a thick, woody, sweet-saltiness reminiscent of balsamic-seared onions and soy sauce. Maple-thickened butter.

Flavor is Goudenband with intent to kill. Brown sugar, cherry pie filling, vanilla-oak, raspberries, honey, and caramelized sugar; there’s passing winks of tartness, but no intense sourness or acidity. Rather it’s a very well defined and polished sweet body of flavor, not bashful and somewhat confronting in its own way; it just isn’t in line with the expectation it produces. Saturated in dark sweetness and a bit of ground pistachio and honey tang. Alternately, there’s plenty of wine-like tartness, in a reisling-like shimmer of sugary simplicity.

Round, rotund palate is softly carbonated; finishes warmly with the same pungent, dark, slightly salty sweetness, and a wink of cherry and pineapple. As an extraordinarily simple example, its single dimension has developed quite appreciably over the years, and it’s become very easy to like. Thanks to Chris, for the confounding generosity.

Rating 1000! Pours an clean and clear ruddy brown that appears a beautiful garnet when held to the sunlight, with a few big bubbles on the top. Nice vinous nose with cherries and a touch of wood. Reminds me quite a bit of their Grand Cru, but smoother and less acidic influences. More sweet than sour with cherries and oak. SO delicate on the palate and clean in the finish. Absolute YUM.

Dark madiera, mahonganey color. Head leaves a creamy and sudsy off-white ring around the glass with thin and faint dusty touches in center of glass. Aroma brings cherries inside of an malty alcohol soaked wood barrel. Flavor is sour, but not agressively sour. Middle turns into some slightly oxidized brown sugar sweet but cherry tart wood, along with some tart concord grapes sweetened with slight apples. Some dry cherry stems in finsh. Extremely slight prickly carbonation on the tongue... but just enough to keep it real. Its otherwise very smooth and full of flavor and excellently balanced.

Bottle at Heeren van Liedekercke - thanks to Mike (mds) for sharing! BBE 17/6/94
Sparkling, reddish brown body. Off-white, mostly diminishing, creamy head with a good lace. The head is very nice for it’s age. Aroma of cherries, cherry juice, white wine, red and white port, cask wood. Heavily sweet, heavily acidic flavour. Moderately sweet, moderately sour finish. Lots of cherries in the flavour. Long-lasting finish. Lightly to medium bodied. Lively carbonation. This one gets most of it’s points for it’s nice cherry aroma, the flavour isn’t so great (too sweat).