Rodenbach Alexander

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

Bottle. [thank you, Søren and Feldthaus]
my Belgian rating #1001
Pour is clear red-golden with a small, creamy, beige head. Fine duration for a sour ale. Magnificent aroma! Cherries, oak, barnyard, raspberries, caramel, some toasted notes and slight herbal. Highish prickly carbonation, light but also slightly oily mouthfeel. Flavour is great, very tart at first. Cherries, oak, citric, fruity, caramel sweetness. It gets more mellow later in each sample. Caramel, Belgian sugar. Immensely drinkable and brilliant balance between sweet and tart. Yum!

(Bottle) Pours a deep ruby-brown with a rim of small white bubbles. Aroma of cherries and caramel. Flavors of cherries, plums, raspberries, and passion fruit. Complex, but well balanced. Well worth the wait and expectations!

Poured a reddish brown color. Aromas and tastes of sour and tart cherries. Maybe some light oak and leather/earthy. Starts sweet and ends a very nice sour (very nice balance). This was very good and very drinkable.

Immense thanks to Barry for sharing one of the rarer than I'd like to believe bottles still around Clear light brown, maybe a slight haze. Small sticky off-white head. Aroma is very vinous, sweet cherries in abundance, well defined with obvious oak aged character that I love. Downright excellence in here, makes you wish you could bathe in one of Rodenbach's legendary oak casks. Nose also deploys light tartness and a bit of brown sugar. Great taste, very refreshing, full-flavoured cherries, very sweet and tart at the same time. You actually feel the seeds and branches a bit which is surprising considering that they used a cherry extract to my knowledge. Tons of oak, just lovely. This is a glorious meeting, but I must confess it could be a bit drier to fit my tastes perfectly, they've already done that with the grand cru though! Great tart aftertaste with more barrel character being revealed, this seems to support age wonderfully and shows no signs of fatigue for those still holding on some bottles, wonderfully lactic still. Thin-medium body, just appropriate and supported by medium carbonation. There is no way any good reason exists and is sufficient to end the production of this fine beer. RIP Alex.

Bottle at de heren(or however you speel it) BBF 1995. Aroma is sweet very attractive tartness, fruity, the age is subtle and delicate, the sherry is infinitly awsome, its just like a beer you could nose for ever. The taste is like sweet and sour sex, its possibly the most drinkable thing to have ever massed my lips, the fruity sweetness with the age and the balanced sourness make it quite simply ione of the best things iv ever drank. A masterpiece.

Murcky, dark brown ale. Small, khaki head. Quickly diminishing. Nice lacing. The nose is very vineous, tart and cherry-laden. Nice! The flavor is malty sweet and tart up front. Very well-balanced. Honey, raisins and a lightly pungent hop presence on the backside. Medium-bodied with a watery mouthfeel and pillow-soft carbonation. Lengthy, tart and sweet finish! Excellent, world class, Northern Belgium brew! Thanks go out to CaptainCougar for this fine specimen!

Sweet cherry aroma and pours with absolutely no head. The flavor profile is quite complex and goes through a period of stages including sweet, sour, and vinegar. Reminiscent of cider. Has a slight musty oak taste toward the finish, but is still a very good brew.

intense ruby colour, aroma: complex, cherry, acid apple; flavor: great sourness, vinegar, apple - a truly unique beer !