Verhaeghe Caves

Brewed by Verhaeghe
Style: Sour Ale
Vichte, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium

Bottle: Dark gold with a white head. Fruity slightly funky nose. Lovely refreshing berries and caramel in the flavour. Very easy drinking. Cheers Papsoe

Pour is hazed amber with a thin off white head...smell is as expected, cherry, oak, sour, and something astringent...taste is the same, but thin and weak...

Bottle labeled 15-09-06. Poured a medium and cloudy amber color with an averaged sized, quickly disappearing off white head. Aromas of yeast, cherries, and some other dark fruits. Tastes of dark cherries, yeast and sweet tarts. Medium sweet with a tart finish.

Bottle. Cloudy amber colour with a slim off-white head. Aroma is sour, fruity and woody. Quite a nice sour taste with some complexity behind it; fruity, malty, wood, tart, spicey. Medium bodied, high carbonation. It walks a fine line - but I like it a lot.

Like the aroma, sour cherries, vinegar, and iron. Good looking, too, amber with pink highlights and a sizeable fizzy white head. Light and bubbly in the mouth. Nice and sour without becoming overbearing, it has an iron-like taste with softly tart cherries, light malt, mild fruit tastes, a touch of vinegar, and a hint of citric acidity. A bit thin, but most enjoyable. We need this in the Chicago area.

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10oz bottle from Madsberg. Pours a very cloudy light amber color with a small white head. Head recedes to leave a fizzy off white ring around the beer. Nose is pungent to say the least. very much smells like bbq sauce and a great open pit pig roast, then there are notes of soy sauce, teryaki, stuff ive never come in contact with I guess. Taste is somewhat pleasent. Has a very fizzy feeling to it, comes off nice and sour at first, with some good hints of fruit, then kinda goes back to the bad sour and spoiled, over ripe tastes. I love and loathe this beer at different moments. Taste is deffinately semi solid, nose is pungent off and unique, I dont even know where I am ! thanks to madsberg for turning my world upside down...

Bottle from Beers of Europe. I found this quite odd. Hazy amber with diminishing off white head. The aroma was unpleasant and made me think the beer was off - notes of rotten fruit/veg with some stale malt. I’ve had a fair number of Flemish reds and browns and this didn’t smell like any of them. No balsamic notes or soy or cherry. There was something which might have been oak, but the overall smell was not good. I dared a sip and the beer itself tasted very different than expected - initially sweet but with a lactic sourness, an oakiness and something reminiscent of a sweetened lambic ala Timmermans. I had expected a drain pour, but the beer redeemed itself in the taste. Very odd. Hmph.

Unclear amber colour, small diminishing offwhite head. Fruity sour aroma, oak and butter. Little carbonation, some sour taste,Finish is sweet sour, with a strange astringent aftertaste(some sweet banana or mango?)