Brouwerij Rodenbach

Commercial Brewery in Roeselare, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Owned by Brouwerij Palm
Associated Venue: Rodenbach

Established in 1821

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Spanjestraat 133/141, Roeselare, 8800, Belgium
Description
The Rodenbach family established the brewery in 1821 in the West Flemish town of Roeselare. The beer owes it unique quality and masterful character to the oak casks in which it matures. Rodenbach is the archetypical Flemish red-brown ale from West Flanders. Recognised as a regional product, it is probably the most award-winning beer in the world.

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7.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle shared at the 2025 Pre-Christmas/NY Zaandam Borrel. Poured a mostly clear golden colour with a thin broken white head. The aroma is yeasty, vinous. The flavour is moderate sour, with a light, crisp, dry, oaky, vinous, herbal, yeasty palate. Medium to light bodied with average carbonation.

Tried from Bottle on 12 Dec 2025 at 18:02


7.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle at kermis tasting. Clear golden. Sweet bready malts, light gooseberries, funky, dough, peach, dry oak. Medium swert and sour. Solid medium bodied, light creamy. Nice!

Tried from Bottle on 12 Dec 2025 at 18:01


6.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Sample uit 75cl fles, Zaandam Kerst/NY tasting. Gouden kleur, witte kraag. Flink zuur, citroenzuur, hout, licht moutig, appels, vleugje perzik, meer hout, droog. Lichte body. Niet helemaal mijn smaak dit.

Tried from Bottle on 12 Dec 2025 at 10:43


7

Tried from Bottle on 30 Nov 2025 at 20:57


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8.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 8.5

chestnut colour with ruby hue, moderate sized beige-ish ecru head; aroma of dreid cherry, sour cherry juice, woody, some tannins, moderate balsamic acidy and acetone notes; taste is quite the same; great one

Tried from Bottle from Amstein on 22 Nov 2025 at 17:35

gave a cheers!

4.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 3

Can from Tesco. Nose is cherry, metalic, faint balsamic. Taste is cordial, fruit syrup, and a faint balsamic note and a dry cordial taste to finish.

Dreadful.

Tried on 13 Nov 2025 at 22:23


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6.5
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6

Draught @ Rodenbach. Pours a generally clear pinkish red, good white head. Aroma of a fruity cherry-tinged flemish red. Can't detect too much raspberry to taste, alongside the naturally fruity rodenbach, no mango. A lovely beer all the same, but marked down for not quite being as marketed.

Tried from Draft at Rodenbach on 02 Nov 2025 at 09:44



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

Shortlived off-white head over red-orange amber beer, clear. Fruity nose; fruitgums, raspberry, felt. Demure nose, certainly for Rodenbach. Sour raspberry. Some lactic acid, fruitacids and -esters, finally way more complex than the nose suggested. Light body, acidthinning; good, if quasi invisible carbonation. Nice fruitbeer, satisfying, but absolutely nowhere revolutionary. Txs to Stef

Tried from Bottle on 26 Oct 2025 at 10:13