Verhaeghe Duchesse Chocolate Cherry

Duchesse Chocolate Cherry

 

Verhaeghe in Vichte, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪

  Flemish Red / Bruin Special
Score
7.31
ABV: 6.8% IBU: - Ticks: 110
Chocolate Duchesse Cherry“ is as its name suggests a chocolate and cherry beer. This beer is an ode to Belgian know-how. We are known and recognized for our delicious beers and exquisite chocolates. We had the crazy idea of mixing the two and making them a unique product.

Brewed only with real Belgian cherries (no flavor enhancers or cherry extracts). The fruit comes from the region of Sint-Truiden in Limburg (Belgium).
The base beer of the “Chocolate Duchesse Cherry“ is a red-brown from West Flanders with mixed fermentation. This beer has a high fermentation base and is then matured in oak casks where it undergoes a second wild fermentation. The tannins in the casks (very large barrel used for the storage of great Bordeaux wines) give Chocolate Duchesse Cherry its sweet, fruity, refreshing and bittersweet taste.

Once the base beer is ready, the master brewer adds 20 Kg of "Kriek Gorsem" (Belgian sour cherries) per 100 liters to the beer. For 6 months, the beer macerates with the cherries. The cherries give a fresh and fruity taste to the beer which has a sweet and sour base. After, we add cocoa to the beer which will soften (without going overboard) the beer and give it a chocolate aftertaste. the total process take 24 months.
 

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7/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Utseende: Rødbrun.
Lukt: Krisebær, sjokolade.
Smak: Kirsebær, sjokolade.
Skum/kullsyre: Dekkende skum.
Medium: Rating:8-7-7-6-7=7, Bottle@330ml, ABV@6.8%, Når@2026.04.04.
Hvor: Samling Bryne
Navn: Duchesse Chocolate Cherry
Stil: FLEMISH RED / BRUIN
Bryggeri: Verhaeghe
Tried from Bottle on 03 Apr 2026 at 23:07

7.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 7 Overall 8
(Draft at Akkurat, Stockholm, 16 Jan 2026) Reddish brown colour with frothy, beige head. Malty, fruity nose with cherries, chocolate, oak wood, caramel and dried fruit. Fruity, malty, tart taste with notes of cherries, chocolate, caramel, oak wood and a touch of balsamic vinegar. Hardly any bitterness. Medium body, with a touch of sweetness. Works a lot better than it sounds. Rich, tasty and complex. Very nice.
Tried from Draft at Akkurat on 02 Apr 2026 at 21:11

5.9/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 5 Flavor 6 Texture 7 Overall 5.5
330ml bottle bought at Vinmonopolet Langnes. Noisy, pinkish head fading over a deep ruby-reddish body, shattered lacing. Aromas of cherries and berry skins, inviting. The taste profile is dominated by cherries added by moments of wood, yeast, and cocoa. Mid-tart finish. Soft on the swallow. Just okay. (Tromsø, 30.03.2026)
Tried from Bottle from Vinmonopolet Tromsø, Langnes on 30 Mar 2026 at 13:12

5.8/10 Appearance 5 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 7 Overall 5
Bought locally, best before August 8th 2023! Yikes!

Pours a clear crimson red, small head of foam, retention and lacing not that good.

Smell is funk, chocolate, cherry, with notes of oak.

Taste is sweet and sour cherries, chocolate, funk, wood. Very unbalanced but very old, obviously.

Light bodied, only way I would drink this again is if fresh...
Tried from Bottle on 01 Mar 2026 at 16:12

8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Bottle Beer Wiking 2025-09-18 Göteborg AR: chocolate, cherries, wee sour sweet, yeasty AP: dark ruby , frothy head F: chocolate, cherries, wee sour sweet, yeasty
Tried from Bottle from Beerviking on 21 Sep 2025 at 21:13

8.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7.5 Flavor 8 Texture 9 Overall 8.5
Kicsi, nem túl tartós hab, sötétvörös szín. Istállós, balzsamecetes, meggyes, hordós illat. Savanykás, istállós, balzsamecetes, meggyes, hordós, vaníliás, leheletnyit kakaós íz. Közepesen testes, erősen szénsavas, icipicit kesernyés. A sima változat jobban ízlik.
Tried from Bottle on 02 Aug 2025 at 16:46

7.9/10 Appearance 5 Aroma 8 Flavor 10 Texture 6 Overall 8
Die fruchtig-saure Baronin 👑 haut sich hier etwas Schoki 🍫 in die Figur 🤰.
Es hat die klassischen Sauerbiernoten nach Kirsche 🍒 und Zitrone 🍋 gepaart mit etwas heller Schokolade im Abgang, wenn dies auch etwas intensiver ausfallen könnte.
Ein schön volles Sauerbier mit extra Frucht und Säure 🍋‍🟩 , mit einem starken runden Körper.
Tried from Bottle from BeerLovers (Heineken) on 04 Jul 2025 at 19:33

8/10
Tried from Bottle on 13 Jun 2025 at 16:27

8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Bottle 330ml. @ Movino, Nørregade, Holstebro, Danmark. 🏡🇩🇰 ☀️ 🐝🦋 [ As Duchesse Chocolate Cherry ]. ABV:6.8%. [20250613]. 8/4/8/4/16
Tried from Bottle on 13 Jun 2025 at 13:35

4/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 4 Flavor 4 Texture 4 Overall 4
Duchesse Cherry Chocolate 6,8% ABV. Dunkles Kirschrot und blank. Es riecht nach wenig Kirsche und viel Holz, dazu aber noch unangenehmes Vanille  Aroma. Sehr sprudelig, sehr sauer und vollmundig . Im Geschmack auch Balsamico und Frucht aber auch das schon gerochene Vanille Aroma. Das wirkt künstlich und ist nicht wirklich gut. Note 4 Hop 2 vollmundig 5 rezent 7 Säure 7
Tried from Bottle at Dulle Griet on 01 May 2025 at 09:16