Rodenbach Redbach

Formerly brewed at Brouwerij Rodenbach (Palm)
Style: Fruit Beer
Roeselare, Belgium

On-Tap at Churchill’s this past week. Pours a dark red color with brown highlights. Thin, white head that leaves a little bit of lace. Smellsof cherries and malt. You can smell the sour. Tastes sour and tangy, red fruits, cherries with a malty backbone. Earthy taste as well. Thin mouthfeel, crisp carbonation, pucker bitter. This is the second bitter I’ve had this week and in my life. Not bad at all, but not my favorite style.

Beer brewed with cherry juice -- and probably the best use of cherry juice possible in a beer. Plenty of spice, full and not cloyingly sweet. Pleasant cherry aromas and floral notes. Juicy finish.

bottle courtesy of mj. new glarus comes to mind. murked red with a thin head. cherry pie nose that is incredibly inviting. amazing tart cherry flavor. crusty buttery cherry pie. 3 7 8 5 17

Bottle (thanks to Kevin for sharing) poured a hazy reddish brown with a minimal lingering pinkish brown head. Aromas of sour pie cherries and light spice.Palate was medium bodied smooth and lightly tart. Flavors ofpie cherries, light carmel and light spice with a smooth lightly dry lightly tart cherry finish.

Dark red pour with a thin light pink head. Cherry aroma. Cherries with a slight sour finish. It was what I expected. But overall I enjoyed it but I love cherries.

Pours a dark red color with a lasting pinkish head. Lots of carbonation here. Definite cherry aroma, sort of spritzy and sharp. Initial sour fruit gives way to a nice tartness, then finishes with a sweet cherry bite. Not bad.

[783-20071027] 11.2floz (By Oct-07; w/ jerc). Cherry jolly rancher aroma has mild fruity bits and a hint of sour apple in the background. Hazy, dark red body with a medium-lasting creamy light pink head. Sour-esque cherry flavour has a sweet finish. Medium body. Great balance between sweet and sour and very cherry.

Pours with an initially two-finger thick, pinkish tinged tan colored head which falls fairly quickly. The beer is a deep, stained, dark cherry red color, but shows a brilliantly clear, red color when held up to the light. The aroma is an weird mix of super cherry notes and an almost stem like, vegetal note that is a bit off-putting. Perhaps that vegetal note is just an artificial cherry note as the aroma sort of smells fake and plastic like. There is very little, if anything to suggest that this is a beer at base level.

Sweet up front and it get a bit more so as one moves towards the middle. It picks up some tartness towards the finish, but really thins out quite a bit. Very sweet, tastes like washed out cherry juice that has been overly sweetened. Not all that offensive (it does have that same fake plastic note as in the aroma), but it really is just lacking in a cherry depth. Simplistic in its portrayal of the cherry, it is missing a tannic, cherry skin flavor and pit character that is much needed. Even the cherry notes seem to be missing that ripe cherry-flesh quality that a good cherry beer has.

This really does taste like watered down, sweetened cherry juice. This is not really beer, though on the upside it is not nearly as sickly sweet as I was expecting. As a beer it is a failure, but it is mostly just an inoffensive drink, one which I most definitely will not be having more of.

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