Average Belgian Rouge
Tout Bien in Destelbergen, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Brewed at/by: MartensLager - Amber / Vienna Regular
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Score
5.38
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Socks & sandals, Filip & Mathilde, beer & cherries. Some matches are made in heaven! Tout Bien Rouge is sweet beer that tingles all the right spots. Enjoy it with the people you love. Santé!
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3.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 2
Texture 4
Overall 4
Can from Delhaize.
A: hazy red, thin, off-white head.
A: red candy, grenadine, powdered sugar, lemonade.
T: sweet red candy & grenadine, bitter chemical syrup.
F: wry & bitter candy and syrup.
P: medium body, watery-sticky texture, soft carbonation.
I can appreciate Average Rob's creative and sympathetic persona, but this is just scandalous.
A: hazy red, thin, off-white head.
A: red candy, grenadine, powdered sugar, lemonade.
T: sweet red candy & grenadine, bitter chemical syrup.
F: wry & bitter candy and syrup.
P: medium body, watery-sticky texture, soft carbonation.
I can appreciate Average Rob's creative and sympathetic persona, but this is just scandalous.
Tried
on 10 Jun 2025
at 15:02
5.3/10
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Appearance 5
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 3
Overall 6
Início com xarope de cereja. A seguir algo de cerveja fraca com notas de palha e milho. Muito fácil de beber assim que se concordar que não estamos na presença de nenhuma obra prima.
Tried
from Can
from
Delhaize
on 13 Apr 2025
at 14:17
5.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4
Can at home shared with Laura. Clear red color, average sized off-white head. Aroma and flavor are lightly malts, sweets, candy, Dr pepper, cherries, artificial. Cherry stone lightly as well. Hmm no not my kind of beer.
Tried
on 30 Jan 2025
at 21:41
5.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
Can at home, red beer, small head. Aroma is candy cherry, sweet, some malt. Taste is the same, sweet, dry, malt, cherry, meh
Tried
from Can
on 26 Sep 2024
at 19:18
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
330ml can, bought somewhere in Belgium; drank at home on 31st August 2024 (BB 1st May 2025). Clean and clear rose red, swiftly disappearing pink bubbles on top. Aroma like a Bakewell Tart, tasted a bit like one too. It's all sweet cherries and syrup, just needed some sliced almonds floating on top for it to actually be a Bakewell Tart.
Tried
from Can
on 31 Aug 2024
at 21:16
2.5/10
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Appearance 3
Aroma 2
Flavor 1.5
Texture 2
Overall 4
After the commercial success of the 'pils' Tout Bien by this fake brewery (actually commissioning its products at the Martens beer factory), driven by the locally popular YouTuber who calls himself 'Average Rob', apparently the stylistic choice for a follow-up has fallen not on a dubbel, tripel or even blond, but a rouge, those artificially 'fruited', sugary red beers that have almost suddenly become incomprehensibly popular among young folks in Belgium... The little confidence I had in this project is now totally reduced to zero, but let us give it a try - for science. Intricately cobweb-lacing, pale off-pink, moussey, medium sized, slowly breaking head on a crystal clear, deep cherry red beer with ruby glow. Aroma - already upon lifting the lid for a few millimeters - dominated by red Haribo candy ('poepkens', 'dropveters' and so on), cuberdons, granulated sugar, wet cereals, Fanta Red and grenadine, children's medicine warming up, but not much else. Cloyingly sweet in the mouth of course, no genuine fruitiness but all red candy, in the form of cherry extract soaked in a truckload of sugar syrup, with medium carbonation and slick, sticky but thinnish mouthfeel; some very thin cerealliness can almost be felt under all that red candy, red lemonade and sugar, but not quite. The sweetness sticks in the finish along with something reminiscent of ascorbic acid (lemonade again) and a - luckily brief - background wryness of some sort, but certainly not hop bitterness. Perhaps it is the fact that we are dealing with a bottom-fermented rouge here (most other rouges on the market today are top-fermented), but this is even thinner, simpler and stickier than the rest - I hate rouges to begin with, but this one takes the already abominable level even deeper, towards rock bottom. This is just red lemonade with alcohol and nothing truly 'beery' - now that we finally got rid of that annoying Radler hype, it is this kind of childish, extremely sweet and simplistic pseudo-beers we have to deal with. Some will never learn. Well below 'average' - 'tout mal', in fact, but I guess I saw that coming.
Tried
on 01 Jun 2024
at 22:06
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
33cl can from Delhaize Chazal in Brussels.
F: medium, pale pink, average retention.
C: dark red, hazy.
A: incredibly artificial cherries.
T: medium to full malty base, red berries, bit cherries, herbal touch, average bitterness, soft carbonation, not such disaster as I expected from aroma, drinkable as the elixir of love.
F: medium, pale pink, average retention.
C: dark red, hazy.
A: incredibly artificial cherries.
T: medium to full malty base, red berries, bit cherries, herbal touch, average bitterness, soft carbonation, not such disaster as I expected from aroma, drinkable as the elixir of love.
Tried
from Can
on 28 May 2024
at 18:37