Rodenbach Foederbier

Brewed by Brouwerij Rodenbach (Palm)
Style: Sour Ale
Roeselare, Belgium

From tap at de Zalm, Roeselare. Pours almost clear and deep golden amber to light brown with a small and dense off white head. Dry malty and slight acetone aroma. Wineous ad slight wooden. Dry and acidic with a distinct sourness and subdued barnyard note. Extremely red wine brett like base flavour with a nice dryness following. Subdued acetone like finish. Lovely, especially in the early Spring sun.

Draught @ De Zalm, Roeselare, Belgium.
[ As my Ratebeer rating #9000 ]. Light light unclear medium red orange color with a average to large, frothy to creamy, excellent lacing, fully lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, berry, woody sour, caramel notes. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and acetic with a long long duration, and a sour vinegar and dry finish. Body is medium to full, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. This is a very very nice beer why can i only get it at this places ? But it is lovely so I will be back next time in Belgium ;o)) [20090308]

Handpumped at De Zalm, Roeselare. Sweet prune aroma, Rum-Trauben-Nuss Ritter Sport. Quite vinous. Hazy dark amber colour. Nice stable frothy tan head. Quite acidic flavour, the finish burns my throat a bit. More prune and raisin notes, and more dark rum. The mouthfeel is a bit thin. Low carbonation.

Draught at De Zalm, Roeselare. Cloudy orange coloured with a lasting off white head. Fruity aroma of glue, red wine and dried fruits. Fruity flavour of glue, red wine and dried fruits with notes of brett. Tart finish of red wine.

Handpumb @ Brasserie De Zalm. Hazy deep reddish amber with large beige long lasting head. Sourish aroma with sour berries, vinegar and wood. Sour flavor with notes of wood, vinegar, sour berries and lacto bachterias. Ends sour.

On tap at DHVL. Copper colour, thin beige. Cereal sour aroma. Pretty drinkable in the mouth, some slight strawberry fruit, some sourness. It’s ok, but nothing special. I do like the finish which made me keep going back to it, but the body/middle was definitely lacking something. Even still it’s a decent beer.

Drwan by handpump from cask, Café de Engelbewaarder Amsterdam. Cherry and oak in the stronmg but refined aroma. A lovely fruity vinous but sour flavor. Cherry, lemon, aok, even a bit honeyish. Caramel and cherry in the long lasting citric sour aftertaste. With a bit more body this would be 4.5+

A Mes rate: Draught at ’t Vosken.
The lady warned me as I ordered this that it was ’very sour’. I told her that this was why I had come to t’ Vosken. She seemed rather unimpressed but poured Diz and I a glass each. Incredible red brown colour filled with rich brown bubbles of every shade possible when swilled. Amazing aroma. Beautiful sweetness, lactic, heavy caramel and incredible fruity notes. Flavour is equally stunning. Everything a Rodenbach should be. Tart, effortlessly sweet and sour, heavy fruit and more caramel. Very red tasting. Incredible fizzy and amazingly clean mouth feel. A quite unbelievable palate. Yet it is virtually flat. How the hell? Very dry on the finish which oges down really sour and warms and almost burns all the way down to the pit of the stomach. Stunning vanilla, balsamic vinegar, earth and everything else I love about the regular Rodenbach in abundance. Really, really good. Also managed to get me a really strange drunk (in a very good way), this is some mad stuff. Best £1.80 I have ever spent.