Brouwerij Rodenbach

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

Established in 1821

Contact
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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7.6
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

75cl bottle from De Keyzer Drinks in Zaventem.
F: no real.
C: deep gold, light hazy.
A: peach, apples, white vine, sherry, bit funky.
T: green apples, peach, light brett, sherry, grapes, yoghurt, bit mineral, bit puckering, yellow plums, dry on the palate, decent bitterness, medium carbonation, very refreshing, fully enjoyed.

Tried from Bottle on 29 Apr 2025 at 18:29


6.4
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6

Pours clear pinkred, small, fast fading pink head. Scent is lime (which is a suprise) next to the obvious red fruits (chery, strawberry). Even a touch of mint-like freshness. Cuberdon candy. Lost all contact with it's basebeer. Taste is sweet, sugary, syrups. Red candy, very distant traces of acidity do their best to lift the beer up, not being AS cloying as the industry's worst, but it still falls in the very, cloyingly, annoyingly, sweet 'fruit' beer category. Not unlike liefmans fruitesse and it's 0.0 counterpart, this one too doesn't provide much 'lesser' experience compared to it's alcoholic twin - cause you mainly taste sugars and syrups anyway. Fruitage is by far not my favorite beer to start with, but when comparing the NA and the regular version of a beer, this NA makes total sense and is an edition that seems like an improvement (no alcohol, very similar) over the regular, rather than to be a hopwater/maltsyrup concoction with the same name, that many other brewers thend to produce as the NA version of an existing beer. Some more chemical-like sugars in the aftertaste do put this beer down quite a bit to me.

Tried on 22 Apr 2025 at 10:21


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

0.75 l bottle from 'Bierothek' (online), best before July 2027. Almost clear, golden with a medium large, frothy, almost stable, white head. Sweetish, sourish, rather fruity and slightly funky aroma of overripe lemon, vinegar, oak, hay, some white pepper and a touch of glue. Slightly sweet, gently sour, rather fruity and moderately funky taste of overripe lemon, vinegar, oak, hay, white pepper and hints of glue, followed by a medium long, quite tart, gently woody-dry finish. Medium body, gently astringent mouthfeel, lively carbonation. Pleasant sour, quite complex, rather refreshing. Good!

Tried from Bottle from Die Bierothek on 20 Apr 2025 at 18:01


7.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 8

Bottle 0,75 ltr with cork: Hazy golden colured brew with an velvet sour taste with hints of green apple, some grape and a bit of lemon.

Tried from Bottle on 19 Apr 2025 at 11:46


7.4
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

Layered and tart without being aggressively sour, with a mild berry sweetness underlined by oak and a touch of funkiness. Tasty.

Tried from Bottle on 02 Apr 2025 at 19:43


6.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7

Picked this up in Washington DC. Smells great! Looks like a premium cherry soda. Yes, it tastes like a cherry Jolly Rancher!!. Great on a hot summer day.

Tried on 24 Mar 2025 at 05:18


5.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5

Bottle. Just don’t like sour beer. But, I keep trying. Dark dark amber. Little tan head. Funky, yeast aroma. Taste is a sour, funk, wine-like taste.

Tried from Bottle on 24 Mar 2025 at 04:37


8.2
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7

Bottle at home. Pours ruby with quickly disappearing off-whitr head. Nose is intense fruity, tart and refreshing with a touch of wood and funk. Taste is lightly sweet upfront, then quickly takes a fruity, sour and funky turn and then closes with a long lasting, tart and fruity finish. Light bodied with lively carbonation. Tasty.

Tried from Bottle on 17 Mar 2025 at 12:22


7
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 6

Bottle at home, courtesy of Marko, apparently the unpasteurized version. Pours copperish red with barely any head. Nose is stone fruit acidity, light tannins, funk, leather. Taste is fruity, slightly acidic upfront, but then it's less sour than anticipated, mostly funky, with malty touches, quite mellow all in all. Closes with a tart, yet somehow malty finish, it's got a light body and soft carbonation.

Tried from Bottle on 17 Mar 2025 at 11:51


7.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5

"Rodenbach Alexander", Fläschchen von Töpper, Moabit, 16.3.2025. - Schwarzrot, klar. - In Nase wie Antrunk delikate, fein abgerundete Säure, ganz zart Balsamico-artig, vor allem aber schöne Sauerkirsche, fein säuerliche Himbeere, eingebettet in ein gereiftes Bier, das eher an Wein denken läßt. Auch die ganz zarten Holznoten im Abgang sind unaufdringlich. - Perfektes mit Kirsche abgerundetes Flemish Red.

Tried from Bottle on 16 Mar 2025 at 20:07