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Verhaeghe Vichtenaar 3.62 421

Verhaeghe Vichtenaar

Percentile
93
overall
Brewed by Verhaeghe
Style: Sour Ale

Vichte, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium

bottled
common

on tap
available

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RatingsAverageScoreABVStyle PctlServe in
4213.64/5.03.62/5.05.1%59.2Snifter, Tulip, Tumbler
Commercial Description:
“Vichtenaar” is a beer, brewed with roasted malts, spicey hops, fruity yeast and soft water, pumped up from a 172 m deep well, guaranteeing constant quality and pureness of the liquor. After primary and secondary lagering, “Vichtenaar” gets a ternary fermentation in oak vessels during 8 months. These oak pipes are big tuns with a capacity varying between 500 and 2500 hectolitres. “Vichtenaar” is a traditional and specific Western Flemish beer, from the northwest of Belgium. Its taste can be described as mild-sourish and suitably complex, thanks to the long lagering on oak. This tart flavour makes it eminently suitable for the hot summer months. “Vichtenaar” is one of the last Flemish “Oud bruins” that are really lagered in the oak tuns, and are as such appreciated by the connoisseur, looking for authenticity. As early as 1958 “Vichtenaar” was crowned as the top in an international concours in Gent.
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 frylock (1029), Buffalo, New York, USA
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/517/20
Mar 4, 2007  
Aroma of oak, brown sugar, sour cherries, and hints of vinegar. Mahogany colored body with a thin light brown head. Mild sourness, fruity notes (mainly cherry and apples). Finishes clean. A very nice, sessionable sour ale. Thanks Tim.


 rudolf (1789), Buffalo, New York, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/58/103/516/20
Feb 25, 2007  
Thanks to Tim for sharing. Deep ruby, off-white head. Nose is balsamic vinegar, cherries, caramel. Flavor is balsamic caramel, strawberries, cherries, maybe some wood.. Great fruity finish.


 JohnnyJ (1356), Carlsbad, California, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/104/516/20
Feb 24, 2007  
Pour is a dark red with a nice off-white head. Aroma of sour cherries and yeasty spice, very wine like. Flavor is very sweet. Cherries, tart sourness, oak, spice, apple, and some funk. Quite tasty.


 patrick767 (2058), fort wayne, Indiana, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/104/516/20
Feb 21, 2007  
bottle - Pours up a clear, dark reddish-brown with a thin head. There’s a pleasantly tart, fruity aroma. The flavor initially struck me as rather sweet with lots of cherries, then the sweetness was soon join by mildly tart tones including apples. There’s also a bit of spice in there. Medium bodied with a tart finish, this is a very tasty sour ale.


 pinkzambia (989), Boise, Idaho, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/105/57/103/516/20
Feb 11, 2007  
Bottle: Dark brown and possibly clear if it wasn’t so dark with a medium tan head. The aroma is tangy, fruity, yeasty and sour creamy (to complete the "y" endings). It has a great flavor or Jolly Green ranchers - apple flavor. This is followed by a board aftertaste which goes into a slightly metallic finish. I don’t prefer the finish, but the superior quality of aroma and taste cause me to go back for another sip. Verhaeghe knows what’s up when it comes to brewing Flemish sour ales.


 Kevin (1920), Colorado, USA
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/105/516/20
Jan 18, 2007  
bottle. pours a purple amber with a large lasting head. spicey curry like note mixes with a sweet caramel and an underlying sourness to make a truly unique aroma that is pleasing confusing and inviting. tart berry flavor hits me first, but wait there’s more. cotton candy and cherries mix with a cola flavor, there is a smoothness to all of this that amazing. every flavor melts into each other. a very mild sourness is evident throughout this, the wood is very light, but i think that bit of vanilla helps bring this all together. lumpy can expect this one in his next package from me.


 beermouth (435), Langeskov, Denmark
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/57/103/513/20
Jan 17, 2007  
Thank’s to DeDolleWaitor. Dark amber/brown with huge offwhite head. Raisins, spice, herbal, bit of coffee and grape. Bit thin but still ok flemish sour ale.


 SpringsLicker (2043), Tennessee, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/515/20
Jan 9, 2007  
Pours a dark brown, almost garnet color with a diminishing, light brown head. Sour apples, rotting fruit aroma tempered by some sweetness. Tart start with a building spicy sweetness towards the finish. Smooth, quite nice.



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