Roodebol
Brouwerij Loterbol (prev. Duysters) in Diest, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
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7.00
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Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8
Bottle 37.5cl. @home poured in a shaker. Colour hazy deep amber with a brownish hue, small moussy pink head, slowly diminishing, light lacing. Sourish aroma, cherries, wood, marzipan, spicy notes cloves, fortified wine, red wine vinegar. Taste medium sweet and sour, some light bitterness, cherries, cherry jam, some lemon, wood, tannins, earthy notes. Medium body, watery texture, soft carbonation, semi-dry sweet and sour aftertaste with more bitterness than in taste, lingering wood, malty notes, vinous feel, lacks somewhat body and could have ripened a bit more nevertheless very nice.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Mörk och Surt part I at Ingos, wee cork bottle bonus 2020-12-27 Göteborg Vintage MMXVII AR: sour cherries, yeasty AP: brownish hazy body, no head F: sour cherries, yeasty
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle, 2015, best before end of 2018. Color: Hazy dark brownish red, pink head. Aroma: Moderate tart, cherries, wood. Taste: Moderate tart and sweet and somewhat more bitterness. A lot of wood, oak. Clearly present deep dark red cherries, tart cherry-skin, cherry pit and even some plum-like notes. Bit earthy. Dry mouthfeel, a lot of tannins. Bittery and very dry, subtle cherry finish. Over medium to full body, below average carbonation. Tasting a bit old and a bit port-like oxidation, but I don't know whether it's really because of the extra aging or it's used to be like this. Nice.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Bottle. Clear red color. Soft cherry aroma. Initial cherry flavor, almost vinous, with cherry pits, oak, marzipan and leather. Bitter walnuts. Plastic. Bone dry, but surprisingly thin and watery. A bit disappointing.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Belgian ale enriched with a generous dosis of sour cherries, has been in existence for years now but I still hadn’t tried it, so many thanks to Stefan for sharing this three year old (2014) bottle - which is apparently at 7% ABV rather than the 6.6% given here. Dense, very thick, ’dirty pink white’, lacing yet unstable head over a misty deep cherry red beer with brownish hue, turning into a very murky brownish red in the end. Aroma offers a lot of sour cherry, ’kriekenjenever’, damp hay, cherry pits, fermenting plums, red raspberries, damp earth, cloves, grape peel, ruby port, red wine vinegar, touch orange peel. Sour cherries in the onset and a lot of them, I’m guessing Duysters got inspired by the cherry lambics in using 200-300 grams of the fruit per liter; they establish a sharpish, at first even almost lemony acidity that cuts through the whole beer, drying the throat; a sweetish blue plum and nectarine accent sits in the middle of this. Carbonation is fizzy, mouthfeel lighter than I’d expect from a 7% beer. Bready malt backbone with a ’deep’ sourish wheaty side to it. In the finish, a lot of complexity is added: totally unexpectedly, a sweet cherry jam flavour pops up, immediately followed by a deep, earthy hop bitterness reinforced by tannins from the cherry seeds and skins and eventually accompanied by a long, warming, gin-like alcohol effect as well as a subtle touch of port- or red wine-like oxidation. Probably consumed at about just the right age, with this onsetting, still very faint portorisation effect adding complexity, but with the generous dosis of fruit acidity and flavour still intact, this was way better than I had imagined... A pleasant discovery, strange I never had this before but bottles of about this age are certainly worth seeking out. Quite unique.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Many thanks for this amazing beer to tderoeck. Vintage 2010. Siedmio letnie piwo owocowe. Gdybym mial zawiazane oczy to bym powiedzial ze pieje porzadnego Oude Krieka. Doskonaly wyglad rozowo-czerwona barwa, piana srednia jasno rozowa szybko opada. Metniste na dnie wersji bez etykiety z pszewieszka tylko. Cudowny aromat porzeczek, malini wisni. W smaku owocowa pelnia, na poczatku lekko slodkie przypominalo tarte alzacka wysmarowana dzemem malinowo wisniowym. Potem im wiekszy lyk z osadem tym bardziej kwaskowe i cierpkie czerwone porzeczki, kwaskowosc zdecydowanie bierze gore, dominuje a wokolo caly czas unosi sie won sadu mlodych drzew owocowych. Jeden z moich Top 10 Fruit beer. Rozkosz ta idealne wspolgrala z gesia watrobka.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Sample at SBWF 2016. Reddish with a small head. Aroma of berries, funk and some hay. Similar taste. The finish was quite sour.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Sample at En Öl- och Whiskymässa, 2016. Hay reddish color with small white, pinkish head. No lacings. Aroma is berries, fruity, light sour, light funkiness, earthiness. Taste is medium sour with dryness, red berries, slight creamy texture. Ends light sour with earthiness and dryness.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4
Bottle. Pours clear red, small white head. Smell is cherrie, rather pure no funk or sweetness. Taste is mildly dry, full-on cherries, with a hint of natural funkyness. Very aromatic in the ending. Intense, for sure, on the cherrie side. Very one dimentionnal though. Boring, and basically this could be looked at as liquid cherrie. More of a fan of fruitbeers, where there actually is a ’beer’ taste as well. This has got no malts, hops, yeast, or anything else. Its not terrible, but who can drink a full 75 cl bottle of something this boring ?
Stuu (34926) reviewed Roodebol from Brouwerij Loterbol (prev. Duysters) 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle at gent beer festival. Pours deep purple red, nose is cherry, funky, taste is tart, dry, fruity.