7.3

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8

Can: pours reddish brown with small head. Aroma is cherry, vinegar. Taste is lightly sour. Sweetish. A very familiar taste but lighter. Nice.

7.2

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Refrigerated 12 oz can poured into a glass. Dark red with off-white head. Aroma is tart cherry, medium body, medium carbonation, and little lacing. Taste is tart cherries and some oak.

8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

330ml can from Boise Co-op. Amber pour, cloudy, small off-white bubbly head. Aroma is sour cherries, woody. Taste is tart cherries, oak, sweet. A bit more subdued than the Duchesse.

7.6

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Can pours out amber topped with a sand head. Nose is nice sweet sour cherry barrel notes. Taste is more of the nice sweet cherries some sort of tart notes and a little barrel.

7.2

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Can from Inoue. Nose is cherry, balsamico. Reddish amber with lace. Soft acidity, with oak, cherry, medium to stronger carbonation. Much milder than the regular one, seems a bit diluted.

7

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Unexpectedly sweet for such a small beer, with plenty of cherry and currant notes bouncing off of candi sugar, oak, and a hint of funk. Tart, woody fade leaves traces of dark fruit. Good pint.

7.8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9

OK, so I had the duchesse years ago and I really digged it & liked it; and I thought this was the same beer but it's not. So, here goes: Pour is darker brownish, almost dark marron in nature. Smell is that of a sweeter wild fermented beer. Ummmmm, taste is so good, I love these flemish beers, they are so enjoyable. Has all the hallmarks of the first duchesse I did. Yea, this stuff is good, I should have bought a six pack of these. Crisp fun cutting co2 too! Man, so enjoyable, so refreshing, just like a good ol' rodenbach. Did they figger out a way to mass produce this stuff? considering the price on the clearance rack? Less than 2$??? Every beer should be a tart flem, ferget about those stupid ass IPA, this is what the old country beer is all about, yummy, yummy. Oh, its all gone, darn, darn!! Wow, a lovely beer tasting experience.

8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9

Can. Dark mahogany beer with a tan head. Cherry and tart aroma. Sour and acetic flavor with oak and cherry. Medium bodied. Sour and acetic notes linger with oak and cherry.

7

From Premier Gourmet in Amherst. Surprised to see this one. Pours cola brown with dark purple. Head is a persistent ring. Vinous and light funk with a little sweetness on the nose. Taste delivers those vinous wine notes, mild funk, over a sweet base. Thinner mouthfeel than the original. Really just a lighter version of the original with a couple of percent less alcohol. Notably thinner but ok.

7.8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

I like the regular Duchesse better. This one has a little tobacco in the aromas but is a touch dryer with barest hint of oak. This one is smoother and more balanced but the other has a lot more flavor.