Ichtegems Grand Cru
(has 5 batches)
Brouwerij Strubbe in Ichtegem, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Flemish Red / Bruin Regular|
Score
6.95
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Typical Flemish red-brown beer with a pleasant balance between complex fruitiness and refreshing acidity. This gem of brewing art owes its recognition as an "acknowledged local product" to the age-old production process.
Beer from high mixed fermentation, carefully matured for 24 months on oak wood. Basic ingredients: barley malt, caramel malt, annual Poperinge hops and pure water. The spontaneous but extremely complex microbiology inside the oak barrels results in an extremely soft, sour beer, ready to be fortified with a young, high-fermented beer.
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5.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle at a tasting. There is a pretty strong solvent off aroma and flavour, which mostly ruins the beer. Otherwise this seems to have been a pretty good beer originally, with a decent underlying malty complexity. Not good as is unfortunately. I would like to rerate someday.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Jun 2019
at 17:54
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
330ml bottle [Cuvée 2013]. Minimally cloudy, redd-ish brown colour with small, frothy, half-way lasting, minimally lacing, off-white to beige head. Tart-ish fruity and mellow malty aroma, notes of cherry, morello, red berries, hints of plum and blue grapes, a vinegar touch, sweet-ish, caramel malty background. Taste is sweet-and-sour fruity and minmally sugary, caramel malty, notes of cherry, morello, red berries, a touch of blue grapes, plum and lemon, fruit and citric acid, dry oaky overtones, sweet caramel malty basis. Minimally watery texture, smooth and soft palate. Well balanced overall, fairly complex, maybe a tad too sugary sweet, but accordingly highly drinkable. Nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 May 2019
at 14:17
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
10 April 2021. Vintage 2015. Cheers to Maarten, Eduard & Domien! Intense aroma of vinegar, sour cherry, bloody iron, lemon peel, wood, horseblanket, cured meat. Taste is a very sour mix of vinegar, lemon, bloody metal, toned down by sweetish dried fruits, pear & almond. Woody, sharp vinegar finish, lingering tart red fruit. Good stuff, the ageing really did this one good although Duchesse de Bourgogne is better. Original rating: 7/4/6/3/13=3.3. 24 February 2019. Wieze Bierfestival - cheers to Meeki, Ama Deke & the lovely Anke! Nice to see this classic passing by. Clear red-brown with a lasting, small, foamy, tan head; little lacing. Aroma of bloody iron, vinegar, sour cherry, wood, red yoghurt, almond. Taste is medium funky sour, vinegar & faint varnish mixed with sour cherries & touch of almond, sweetish notes of caramel, pear, bit woody bitter, phenolic, metallic. Dryish, tart, acidic finish, cherries, vinegar, bit metallic & 'bloody'. Medium body, slick-oily texture, soft carbonation. Drinkable, just a tad too bloody.
Tried
on 05 Mar 2019
at 10:22
7/10
Batch 44A2, BBD 25/10/2021;Light caramel & red fruit esters,touch of spic pepper,mild apple vinegar,red wine,hints of amarena cherry & honey --- Beer merged from original tick of Ichtegem's Grand Cru Cuvée (2013) on 03 Apr 2018 at 21:20 - Score: 7. Original review text: 2013 vintage bottle;at firts quite restrained aroma with light oxidation;sweet syrupy nose with light caramel & fruity/candy like esters
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Jan 2019
at 19:59
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle at home. Pours clear reddish brown with small and frothy, cream coloured head. Aroma of vinegar, overripe cherries, nuts, caramel, vanilla, glue, acetone, metal. Taste very sweet with some acetic sourness. Medium mouthfeel.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Jan 2019
at 18:00
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
330ml bottle from Dranken Geers. Pours deep reddish brown, small tan head. Aroma is strong Flemish red acetic vinegar. Taste is strong, sweet acetic, distant umami, tangy cherry notes, light carbonation. Excellent Flemish red.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Nov 2018
at 20:17