Rouge Max
Brouwerij Omer Vander Ghinste (Bockor) in Bellegem, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
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De combinatie van het donker bier met de krieken geeft een aangename zoet-zuur balans. De kleur is donkerrood met een stevige schuimkraag.
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Tried a couple of days ago.
Only numerical rating.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
bottiglia 25 cl, schiuma beige/rosa media grana evanescente, color mogano/rosso, al naso intenso amarene e marzapane, in bocca sciroppo d’amarene latte di mandorla marzapane vaniglia, corpo rotondo, carbonazione moderata, alcool presente ma bilanciato dalla dolcezza, lieve acidula, molto dolce con amaro moderato. Buona ma un po’ troppo sciropposa. c. Iper Varese 31.05.25
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5.5
Bottiglia. Il gusto al naso propende per la ciliegia. L'olfatto viene stimolato in maniera elevata, permanendo in maniera apprezzabile. Il cappello di schiuma è destinato a vita breve. La grandezza delle bollicine è a grana fine, con qualche bollicina media. Il liquido si presenta nebbioso. Il colore è ambrato carico tendente rossiccio. Il corpo è rotondo. Il dolce è pesante. L'amaro è moderato e c'è anche una componente moderatamente acidula. La forza gustativa è elevata e permane in modo sufficiente. Le sensazioni boccali finali risultano di facile beva. Il retrogusto è di media intensità. Il tetto della bocca porta indizi di zuccherino, miele, agrumi e ciliegia.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
25cl bottle from Carrefour market Tervuren Leuvensesteenweg. F: thin, pink, quick gone. C: dark red, opaque. A: artificial cherries. T: full malty base, artificial cherries, citrus, not so sweet at least, vanilla, clove, apples, soft carbonation, 3,42 right now both untappd and here the same so the world is crazy.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Keg at taphuys utrecht. Pours clear ruby, nose is cherry, almond, taste is sweet, cikly cherry.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
33cl bottle. Pours reddish brown, with very limited foam. Aroma is intense of cherries, recalling cherry pies in particular. Body and carbonation are average. Taste is medium sweet, not too invasive, with a fairly dry final.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 4.5
The Belgian concept of 'rouge' (strong and artificially flavoured and sweetened cherry ale) as interpreted by Vander Ghinste, describing it as an 'aromatized beer' with 14% cherries; how this is made is exactly is anyone's guess but the brewery's, but I suspect it consists largely of a top-fermented beer 'à la' Le Fort Triple (in raw, unfinished form) spiked with a splash of the sour 'foederbier' this brewery has been making for decades and then heavily sugared and flavoured with cherry extract - but do correct me if I am wrong. Bottle from the Delhaize supermarket in Lokeren. Medium sized, pale greyish white, shred-lacing, tiny-bubbled and creamy but breaking head leaving a thin greyish veil in the middle of a clear (filtered), very deep and 'dark' ruby red beer with burgundy edges. Aroma of 'poepegatjes' and other red candy as feared (and very strongly and vividly so), red bubblegum (also very strongly), candyfloss, cherry candy and some industrial cherry jam, reduced sugared cherry juice (the 14% I suppose), hints of brown bread dough, vanilla, old dry cookies, apple juice, banana and clove. Very sweet onset, dense and syrupy reduced cherry juice effect, cherry jam, but strangely (somewhat) less red candy and 'poepkes' than I was fearing; still heavily sugary though, sticking to the teeth. Nevertheless, this onslaught of sugared cherry syrup leaves just a small window for banana- and apple-like esters to peep through, continuing over a rounded, bready malt sweet middle, still deeply soaked in that artificial cherry jam and cherry candy flavour, making up the lion's share of this beer's flavour 'parcours'. There is a very thin 'veil' of Bockor 'foederbier' tartness to be detected, but it is so subtle that I almost feel sorry for it - this beer could easily have been made without it. Ends heavily sweet and cherry-candy-flavoured, with a slight bitterness probably ascribable to the 'foederbier' element - trying in vain to balance out the sweetness a bit. The alcohol, though considerable, remains fairly well hidden; thick sweet cherry syrup seems to absorb most of it. I cannot understand this whole 'rouge' thing, it has been plagueing this country for many years already, but who drinks this kind of rubbish? The ironic part in this specific case is that Vander Ghinste actually does make a fine 'foederbier' (they call it lambic) and have created several interesting variations on it, so with less of that awful industrial-feeling cherry syrup and more of this so-called lambic, this could, and I choose my words carefully, maybe, potentially, have been a great beer for actual beer lovers. Now it is another intentional sugar-syrup red monster for those who do not give a shit about what good beer actually tastes like. Pardon my French.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
250 ml bottle, as Rouge Max by Jacobins, from Vinmonopolet, Nettbutikken. ABV is 8%. Deep red colour, small pink head. Aroma of cherries, cherry kernels and marzipan. Sweet and sour flavour of cherries, hints of marzipan.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Noe uklar rød farge med rosabeige skum. Lukter kirsebær, coctailbær og en anelse vanilje. Passe syrlig i munnfølelse. Medium fylde. Søte kirsebær i smak. Sødmen sitter i lenge.
