Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 2

Can shared by Yespr. Red amber color, small off-white to pink head. Smell and taste both are lemonade and the famous Dutchdrebus’ description: "roze kermis zoetstok". But then with a lot of alcohol.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 3

50 cl can. Pours cloudy amber with a small pink head. Aroma is berry fruity. Artifical fruity. Sweet and alcohol presence. Sweet candy finish.

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 2

F: thin, pink, quick gone. C: dark ruby, clear. A: sugary sweet, syrupy, cherries, alcohol, bubble-gum. T: heavy sweet, syrupy, cherries, berries, alcohol strong present, grenadine, bubble-gum, medium full “body”, lower carbonation, 0,5l can from Match supermarket in Brussels, it´s almost incredible how bad beer can some breweries product and sell.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 1 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 1.5

Alkoholischer unangenehmer Antrunk mit trockenen Gummibärchen-Noten. Parfümiert nach Beeren, zuckrig, die Alkoholigkeit nimmt ab, die Trockenheit zu. Untrinkbar. 10/4/3/2/5/2

Free sample... Pfff awful!

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4

Canned 500ml. -from Spar supermarket, Alpe d’Huez. Dark ruby red coloured, small pinkish head, cherries and alcohol in the nose. Sweet and perfumed cherries, berries and sharp alcohol with sugary and alcoholic finish. To be honest expected something even worse.

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 1 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 0.5

I am still recovering from the shock of that gin version I tried to pour down last week, but for the sake of science, let’s evaluate this cherry version as well. Irregular, very pale pinkish, moussy head with decent retention, colour is a clear, deep ruby red with purple hue. Aroma of red candy jumps to the nose upon opening the 50 cl can - cuberdon and ’poepegatjes’ for those who are familiar with these Flemish creations; underneath this onslaught of red candy sugar, there are hints of sweet liquorice, heavily sugared elderberry syrup (cough syrup!), strawberry ice cream, iron and an unmistakable presence of white alcohol, but it is very difficult to get past the candy. Less offensive than the gin version for sure, but not too inviting either; I never liked candy and the more I smell this, the more sickening it becomes. Taste begins with the expected truckload of sugar sticking to the teeth, surrounded by a weird and very unpleasant chemical flavour, wry and astringent, reinforced with an enormous amount of alcohol (as in: neutral grain spirit), burning on the tongue and making the finish extremely wry and harsh. The cloying sweetness accompanying this ill-fated parcours lasts till the very end, but it is even incapable of fighting off the chemical and alcoholic wryness. Pure ’beery’ qualities are hard to find, there is some kind of thin, sourish graininess buried under all the sugar, fruit extracts and burning alcohol, but it is damn hard to find, and hops are undetectable at least to me. I do not like cheap strong "alcoholics" lagers at all and neither do I like overly sweet, sugary ’fruit’ beers - this monster combines both. I must admit it shocked me less than that gin version, but that doesn’t make this any more pleasant. I know that John Martin survives for a very important part on alcoholics buying their cheap Gordon lagers, but with these two novelties, I get the impression that even this faithful audience of theirs is being ridiculed. I have no idea what they intended here. I noticed there isn’t yet a picture of it here (which could come in handy as a warning sign) but let somebody else do it: I don’t want to have anything to do with this anymore. Drain pour!

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 1

yeah, more gordon for the masses! Seriously. This is right up there for one of the most awefull brands ever. I get that leffe still exists due to aggressive product pressuring and branding, but these guys don’t make even slightly that amount of promotion, and yet are the house of many of my bottom scoring beers. How the hell do they survive ? Who keeps buying this stuff - appart from self-hating beergeeks like the ones writing and perhaps reading this. How can they sustain enough money to even exist ? I am so shocked and baffled by this alone. Next thing that brainfucked me was how bad the other Xplosion (gin spices) was. Drainpoured it , and straight after poured this one. How much worse can it be, right? This one pours a deep, purple-kind of red. No foam, but still got some bubble formation on some parts of the surface - unlike the spices version that had the same look as actual piss). Smell is just... DAMN. When you open your granny’s candy closet, with numbers of sweet , fruity candy things inside, laying there for the last decade(s?) . Indeed an explosion, but not of something good. sweet, cherry-based extreme syrup, as well as a caramelly touch. Taste is so damn... Fuck. Fuck me. This is -again- so bad. Up front, there is the taste of ’poepegattekes’ - If you don’t know what they are, try them ! Just ask a Belgian to sent you some - but intensified by a dozen times. Underneath this extreme attempt of hiding, there is the - and I have no other words for this - Discousting, puke-reminding base of what I am pretty sure is the other great gordon I once had - Titanium. I have to be honest here. The first taste is.. doable. Not in any way to be respected, or showing any skill of brewing, but its just an overpowered candy. But the aftertaste.... Feel free to read my thoughts on titanium, if you will. in short - I’d rather drink my own puke than that discrase. The fact you can taste notes of that base ( which I assume is the base here ) in this one, make it purely and utterly BAD for me. if it was left behind, If all the chemicalness in this would actually overpower that as well, i’d rate this a 1,5 or something. But yeah. Missed chance, and I don’t see why John Martin keeps putting out stuff like this. Please get bought by Inbev, you’re probably one of the only breweries they’d be able to improve.....

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 1 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 2

500 ml. can sampled @ home. Picked up a night shop. BBF 29/08/2015. Poured into a Cantillon tulip glass. Dark ruby grenadine, fizzing away light pink yoghurt head that becomes instantly patchy. Rather big at first, very lively carbonation rising in the glass. Can lists elderberries as the fruit but it smells like intensely sweet strawberry grenadine to me, very big & very sweet strawberry grenadine with lots of bubblegum, basically nothing else. Smell is pleasant compared to the taste. Taste is huge burning extremely heavy medicinal rubbing alcohol, insanely chemical which completely clashes with overly chemical strawberry & red fruit notes which feel thin next to the intense alcohol, first you get the alcohol which is inexplicably completely upfront in the taste, in the finish the strawberry is oddly even more chemical, nothing about it seems real & it has a very heavy medicinal taste upfront. Body is like intensely chemical grenadine diluted with operanting room supplies & medicinal alcohol. Pretty much as awful as expected. You are way better off buying discount vodka & mixing it with grenadine. The horrible completely medicinal taste & medicinal alcohol just keeps hanging in your mouth. I took baby sips & felt the need to wash my mouth just to get the taste out of it. Fascinating in a sick way. Absolutely a drainpour. Pretty much undrinkable honestly.