Duchesse Red
Verhaeghe in Vichte, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Flemish Red / Bruin Regular|
Score
7.22
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Duchesse RED is a top-fermented Flanders Red Ale matured in wine oak casks for several months and macerated with cherries. Featuring aromas of fruit with hints of almonds and light sour cherries, the taste is initially sweet and fruity and keeps the balance nicely with a refreshing aftertaste.
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6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
330ml can bought at Vinmonopolet Stokmarknes, shared with Esben. Creamy, pinkish head over a cloudy black-reddish body, spotty lacing. Prominent aromas of almond and cherry. The taste profile follows suit with almond, oak, and mid-tart cherry. Marzipan-like impression. Rather sweet, and semi-dry finish. Pretty good in smaller amounts. (Stokmarknes, 01.07.2024).
Tried
from Can
on 04 Jul 2024
at 07:08
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Can. Very dark red with a pink head. Aroma of Dutch almond fingers, somewhat medicinal cherries, vanilla-ish oak. Soft, creamy texture. A modest wine vinegar and cherry sourness is enough to keep what threatened to be very sweet mostly under control. It builds a bit and there's some pepper as well as vanilla to the oak. It's not Alexander but it's good. Like normal Duchesse, a tad sweet for me.
Tried
from Can
on 30 May 2024
at 14:35
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Mørk rød med rosa skum. Lukter kraftig kirsebær og mandelkjerne. Fyldig. Fruktig og sur. Smaker sure kirsebær, marsipan noe vanilje og fat. Middels lang.
Tried
on 12 Feb 2024
at 17:34
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Pour at the The Belgian Brewers' Bash in Washington DC. Poured a very smooth, rich red color with a fluffy, dark pink head. Aroma was big cherries, more like cherry candy but without too much sweetness. Cherry skin fruit juice. Almost none of the tartness found in the standard Duchesse. I really liked it though. This beer was marked as a new and different beer from the Cherry Duchesse.
Tried
from Can
on 07 May 2023
at 04:21
8/10
Tried
on 06 May 2023
at 17:46
8/10
Tried
on 06 May 2023
at 12:14