Cuvée des Jacobins Rouge
Brouwerij Omer Vander Ghinste (Bockor) in Bellegem, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Flemish Red / Bruin Regular|
Score
7.46
|
|
The beer Cuvée des Jacobins is unblended old lambic, aged for at least 18 months in (French) oak barrels from the cognac region. These oak barrels are called ’Foeders’ in Dutch. It has a robust character but is beautiful and sophisticated with a full body and overtones of vanilla, dried cherry, stone fruit and cocoa. It is a complex, beautiful sour beer.
Sign up to add a tick or review
7.6/10
—
Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Frothy off-white good mostly diminishing head. Red amber colour. Moldy modetrate malty and light hoppy aroma. Moderate siyur nice flavor. Long moderate acetic finish. Creamy palate.
Tried
on 29 May 2022
at 14:52
7/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 May 2022
at 20:13
6.8/10
—
Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
(bottle 0,33l from topvino.cz online shop) Overall: Good sour with some complexity. Aroma: Tart, sour cherry, light sweet, some wood. Appearance: Clear dark red-amber. Minimal, beige head. Taste: Medium sour, wine, sour cherry, light sweet, some fruity, some wood. Palate: Medium body. Dry, sour finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Apr 2022
at 20:15
6.5/10
—
Appearance 7
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Pours a deep/dark garnet, with the slightest bit of haziness. About one finger of head, decent retention and some lacing. Aroma: strong sourness already evident, half acetic, half citric. Citric notes are mainly (if not only) lemon. Cherries. Far from the richness/complexity i expected. Taste is pretty sour, even for the style, as the smell suggested, with citric sourness taking a slight edge over acetic sourness. There's a moderate sweet note in the midst, which brings a hint of almond, but finish and aftertaste are still mainly sour. Notes of lemon, cherries, almond, minimal funkiness. Medium to light bodied with a carbonation that's definitely higher than style average, resulting in a lively/sparkling mouthfeel that's not unpleasant, but doesn't feel like fitting this kind of beer to me. A vividly sour example of the style, but a surprisingly 'simple' beer; i expected more depth.
Tried
on 16 Feb 2022
at 11:29
10/10
Tried
on 15 Nov 2021
at 16:20
7.1/10
—
Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
12-11-16 Bottle Highlands Prev 4.0
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Nov 2021
at 04:19
7.5/10
—
Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle from Craft Beer Oasis, Crewe (drank at home). Pours a rich ruby with a generous, but transient frothy milk chocolate head. There is a general sour aroma ervading here, though with some hitns of wooden barrels and cough mixture. Very shar and sour in the mouth, with suggestions of cocnetrated fruit juice (lime mainly). Also, some maltiness and spices from the base beer comes through. A very mice well balanced sour.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Nov 2021
at 23:05
8.3/10
—
Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
33 cl. bottle @ home, bought @ de Prins, Rhenoy.
Clear reddish brown with a thin off-white head. Vinous sour cherry aroma. Sour taste with a dry fruity sour finish. More sour than an average Flanders red but very very interesting and complex. Great beer in one of my favorite beer styles.
Clear reddish brown with a thin off-white head. Vinous sour cherry aroma. Sour taste with a dry fruity sour finish. More sour than an average Flanders red but very very interesting and complex. Great beer in one of my favorite beer styles.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 May 2021
at 19:58
8.1/10
—
Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
33cl bottle from Hopt, France. Pours brown, with fine beige foam. Aroma is clearly lactic, fruity. Body is average, with quite a carbonation and nice astringency. Taste is markedly sour. Final is still intensely sour and astringent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Jan 2021
at 19:21
4.5/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Nov 2020
at 13:12