Wijnberg
Brouwerij De Ranke in Dottignies, Hainaut, Belgium 🇧🇪
Collab with: Brouwerij Omer Vander Ghinste (Bockor)Flemish Red / Bruin Regular
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Score
7.42
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Wijnber is a 'old brown ale', inspired by our regio where this style of beer is very well known. There are two classic styles of old brown ale, but Wijnberg is a new variation that is in between the two classic styles. The beer contains one third of young beer and two thirds of 'old' beer, aged for at least two years on wood barrels. For a more complex flavour we add a small amount of Jacobins, an old foederbeer made by brewery Vanderghinste in Bellegem. The end result is a complex balance of flavours between sweet and sour. The beer was named after the neighbourhood where one of the brewers grew up and it also means 'Mountain of Wine', and refers to the wine-like character of the beer.
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7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle, 750 ml at Ambasada. Amberish brown with off-white head. Caramel, dried fruit, berries, grapes, vinous. Some sweetness. Medium sourness.
Tried
from Bottle
from
Ambasada.
on 20 Nov 2023
at 05:47
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottled 750ml. -at Ambasada Zagreb. Darker amber coloured, medium sized off-white head, grapes and mild caramel nose. Tartish fruity, mild caramel, light oaky and yeasty with touch of grapes in the finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Jul 2023
at 20:50
7.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 7
From tap at Lambiczoon, Milano, 17.08.23. Red mahogany colour. Off-white head and lacing. Aroma and taste of malt, wood, juniper, brittle and dries red berries. Bitter aftertaste is lingering on.
Tried
from Draft
on 17 Jun 2023
at 13:51
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
A dark red-brown beer, a head is small and beige. Aroma has cherries, also other fruitness and berryness, raspberries, sourness, balsamico, light barrel. Taste has cherries, sourness, dry barrel. Medium bodied, typical stickyness for this style. The aroma is complex and great. Very good beer.
Tried
on 28 Apr 2023
at 12:55
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 9
17 February 2023. At Rose Red, Bruges. Cheers to Anke, mom & dad and massive thanks for sharing!
Vintage 2020. Hazy amber, small, foamy, off-white head. Aroma of sour cherry, red grape, wet wood, malt vinegar, cheese, sherry, plum. Taste has sour cherry, macerated plum and grape skin in a bready, malt-vinegary profile surrounded by herbal, leathery notes. Tart, dry finish with wood, cherry stone, bitter grape skin, lasting fruity sourness and gently lactic. Medium body, slick-moussy texture, soft carbonation. Very elegant and subtle, lovely.
Vintage 2020. Hazy amber, small, foamy, off-white head. Aroma of sour cherry, red grape, wet wood, malt vinegar, cheese, sherry, plum. Taste has sour cherry, macerated plum and grape skin in a bready, malt-vinegary profile surrounded by herbal, leathery notes. Tart, dry finish with wood, cherry stone, bitter grape skin, lasting fruity sourness and gently lactic. Medium body, slick-moussy texture, soft carbonation. Very elegant and subtle, lovely.
Tried
on 26 Apr 2023
at 16:49
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Sample (thanks omhper!). Deep amber colour, small off-white head. Aroma is tart fruits, wood and mild acidity. Flavour is tart fruits, some wooden and mild acidic tones. Smooth, although slightly dry.
Tried
on 25 Jan 2023
at 22:15
8/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Jan 2023
at 22:29
7/10
brugge 2022
Tried
on 16 Nov 2022
at 13:56
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle. Beer Merchants. Shared down SMOD. Deep reddy brown. Good off white foam. Nicely jammy. Some sweet balsamic. Dried vine fruit. Taste is lightly sharp and tart. Soft jammy sweetness. Clean and fresh. Whiff of bacteria throughout. Good gear.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Oct 2022
at 22:44
6.4/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6
Flavor 6.5
Texture 7
Overall 6
Bottle shared at tasting. Dark autumnal red brown color, off-white head. Aroma is...hmm well...hard to describe. Flavor is malts, leaves, sourness, tart-sour-bitter. Drinkable but not my kind of beer.
Tried
on 11 Jun 2022
at 17:54