Flanders Red
Goose Island Brewhouse: Clybourn in Chicago, Illinois, United States 🇺🇸
Flemish Red / Bruin Regular|
Score
6.84
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
750mL bottle, four years of age on it, generously shared by AdamC on 7/8/17.
Clear, black cherry and auburn body with bright magenta highlights and a small, beige head showing moderate retention.
Smells stylistically on-point; lots of acetic acid that is balanced by honey-caramel-vanilla toned malts. Incredibly fruity but not a vinegar bomb, thankfully. Oxidation has added some dull breadiness to it, a bit more than it needs, but there's a good pepper/spice phenol character that adds back a touch of livliness. No alcohol or flaw.
Soft, slick with low, fairly engaging carbonation and plentiful malt that provides caramel, toffee and vanilla with big bursts of cherry and acetic acid thrown in. Strong vanilla and bread reprises on the finish. Pretty by-the-books Flanders red ale and it's very competent. Maybe a bit old/tired at this point as there's just too much bread and vanilla character. A bit on the sweet side, as well.
CLW (16859) reviewed Flanders Red from Goose Island Brewhouse: Clybourn 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
750 ml bottle shared by AdamChandler. Dude, old Whalez.... Almost clear brown color. Aroma is mild cherry skins, maybe red grapes, no vinegar (this must have mellowed) very subtle. Old cherry skins, malty sweetness, maybe vanilla. Body is medium, carbonation has faded. Really not bad.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Four years old?! Wow. Thanks adam for sending this to me many years Ago. Dark reddish brown. Smells like cherry pie. Taste is decent. Not sour. Tart with app,e, cherry, lemon and peach. Okay with red wine. Has aged very well.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Draft pour on tap at Goose Island’s Belgian Fest 2013. Color is a nicely dark burgundy red, low clarity from the color. The beer is a bit cleared up, not totally but nicely done. Has a ring bubbly lacing. Aroma is nicely light acetic but more than well balanced by a sweet maltiness. Flavor is tea maltiness with cherry sourness undercurrents. No off putting sour aspects Thicker mouthfeel with lighter carbonation. Very good use of acetic and more on the cherry side of sour than anything else.