Piraat Red
Brouwerij Van Steenberge in Ertvelde, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Fruit Beer Regular|
Score
5.82
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Red (= artificially 'fruited' and sugared) version of Piraat 10.5, since 2019.
From the brewery's website:
Piraat Red - bier van hoge gisting met heerlijk fruitig karakter
10.5%
Kleur: Rood
Alcoholvolume: 10,5% - 22° Plato
Aroma: Kers, krieken
Smaak: Fruitig
Verpakking: flesjes 33 cl en vaten 20 l
From the brewery's website:
Piraat Red - bier van hoge gisting met heerlijk fruitig karakter
10.5%
Kleur: Rood
Alcoholvolume: 10,5% - 22° Plato
Aroma: Kers, krieken
Smaak: Fruitig
Verpakking: flesjes 33 cl en vaten 20 l
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4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 3
Bottle from Delhaize Dok Noord.
A: hazy red, stable, foamy, pink head.
A: red candy ('veters'), candied cherry, powdered sugar, elderberry syrup.
T: very sweet red candy, cherry, strawberry ice cream, bubblegum.
F: bittersweet candy, bit chemical lemon juice, warming red vodka-like alcohol.
P: medium body, sticky texture, soft carbonation.
Another one of those, I suppose...
A: hazy red, stable, foamy, pink head.
A: red candy ('veters'), candied cherry, powdered sugar, elderberry syrup.
T: very sweet red candy, cherry, strawberry ice cream, bubblegum.
F: bittersweet candy, bit chemical lemon juice, warming red vodka-like alcohol.
P: medium body, sticky texture, soft carbonation.
Another one of those, I suppose...
Tried
on 12 Jul 2026
at 11:18
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Very sweet, cloying. Med sour, no funk. Lots of sour cherry flavor, artificial feeling. Out of balance. Tasty, but very basic, Kasteel Rouge-like, only slightly less good.
Tried
from Draft
at
Pauwel Kwak Bierhuis
on 19 May 2026
at 09:40
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
330 ml bottle. Pours a red brown with short head. Aromas of sweet cherry syrup and toasted malts. Flavors of dark cherries with both tart and sweet notes plus a little figs and wood, and more toasted malts.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Mar 2024
at 23:29
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 7
330mL bottle, pours a deep dark red / mahogany with a small beige head. Nose is loaded with intense cherry cough syrup that drowns out anything else. Flavour is somehow much less sweet than expected, with intense cherry juice, gentle Belgian yeast expression, and above average carbonation that cuts down on some of the perceived sweetness. It's still too sweet and juice-like for me, but it's not bad for what it is, I suppose.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Feb 2024
at 04:22
5.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 8
Overall 4
Ces bières aromatisées à la cerise ont réellement du mal à me convaincre…Pourtant j'avais de l'espoir avec cette Piraat et ses 10 % qui, je l'espérais allaient donner un peu de caractère. Mon espoir ne dura cependant pas. Comme à l'habitude, le visuel est cependant sympathique avec un rosé limpide avec une fine effervescence et quasiment sans mousse. On déchante au nez qui est sur des arômes de cerise artificielle. En bouche, il en va de même avec en plus un sucre que je n'attendais pas à ce niveau. On ne sent absolument pas la puissance et le caractère de la Piraat mais heureusement que le titrage est à 10 %, car sinon avec ce sucre, ce serait je pense imbuvable. Comme beaucoup de bières du genre, nous sommes ici sur du bourrin sans grand intérêt.
Tried
on 05 Dec 2023
at 08:21
3.6/10
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Appearance 3
Aroma 4
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 4
Van Steenberge cashing in on the 'rouge' trend of strong, top-fermented, red candy-flavoured beers (which, frankly, do not deserve to be called 'fruit beers' in the first place as far as I am concerned); bottle at the Cabane Banane summer bar on the grounds of the Ghent university (campus De Sterre). Medium thick, pale pinkish-tinged off-white, slowly breaking, shred-lacing head on a clear, deep and dark but glowing ruby red beer. Aroma of 'poepegatjes' and 'dropveters' (red candy), candyfloss, cough syrup, liquorice, Parfait Amour liqueur, rubber, grenadine, wine gums, brown rum. Sickly sweet onset, lots of red candy, wine gums and candy apple, sourish undertone in a non-natural way, spritzy carb, full mouthfeel; lean bready core buried under a truckload of raspberry-flavoured bubblegum, grenadine, cough syrup and, more than anything, red (Haribo) candy. A late hop bitterish note appears deep in the finish, along with a glow of rum-like alcohol, but this sugary red candy effect remains obviously very dominant, to the point where it makes me want to vomit. Sticking to the teeth and mixing unpleasant aromas and flavours in a completely unstructured way, this one makes me even more skeptical about this 'rouge' hype (think Kasteelbier Rouge, Leffe Ruby, Delirium Red and so on) - a type of beer incomprehensibly popular in Belgium for years on end now. I thoroughly hate this beer category (which should be its own beer style here) and I already hated Van Steenberge's politics, so this was never going to be any good, I know; but I tried to judge it as unprejucidedly as possible - and admittedly failed. Drain pour for me, but there is no doubt that this kind of bullsh*t has its audience.
Tried
on 09 Sep 2023
at 00:08
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draught at Skaal Sønderborg. Sweet and citric cherry aroma. Almost clear deep red colour. Good stable pink head. The flavour of like the aroma, sweet, citric cherry but also has some alcohol bitterness. Does not taste its ABV though.
Tried
on 20 Jan 2023
at 18:19
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draught @ SKAAL Sønderborg. Pours cloudy dark ruby red with airy but stable pinkish head. Clear aroma of fruit and malt, with touches of yeast and hints of vanilla. Dry, vinous taste with sweetish, estery, fruity and malty notes and touches of vanilla. Dry aftertaste with malty and estery touches. Warming alcohol presence. Well-balanced and satiating. Very nice.
Tried
on 20 Jan 2023
at 18:18