Liefmans

Commercial Brewery in Oudenaarde, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Owned by Duvel Moortgat

Established in 1679

Contact
Aalststraat 200, Oudenaarde, 9700, Belgium
Description
The history of the brewery dates back to 1679. At the end of the eighteenth century, Jacobus Liefmans settled in Oudenaarde and gave the brewery its name. It was around 1900 that Liefmans started filling maturation tanks with black cherries, on a small scale. Local farmers brought their excess crops of black cherries to Liefmans and swapped them for beer. One individual who played a key part in this was Rosa Merckx. She was closely involved in the brewery’s operations over several decades. Thanks to her encouragement, the cherry beer evolved into a real success story.

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

Bottle. Nice raspberry aroma and flavour. Red, small white head. Nice soft drink.

Tried from Bottle on 17 Dec 2004 at 15:27


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

Bottle. Peachy aroma. Yellow colour, small white head. Peachy, sweet candylike flavour. Nice, sweet sodapop.

Tried from Bottle on 17 Dec 2004 at 15:17


5.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5

Served warm. Cherry/raisin aroma. Dark brown/red colour. Sweet, thick cherry flavour. Acidic aftertaste. Thick mouthfeel.

Tried on 16 Dec 2004 at 11:03


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

Bottled (room temperature)
Deep cherry red, not much head. Strong sweet spicey (cinnamon, clove) aroma - like in Glühwein. Sweet, sugary cherry flavor. A bit sour finish like in a lambic kriek. Short sweet-sour aftertaste.

Tried from Bottle on 06 Dec 2004 at 12:09


3.3
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 3

Bottled. Golden colour, airy head. Extremely sweet with very sticky candyish peach flavour. ...and I find even peaches on it’s own to be too horribly sweet, now this is even sweeter :-(

Tried from Bottle on 06 Dec 2004 at 09:34


4.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 4.5

Bottled. Deep clear red. Balsamic cherry aroma. Sticky sweet, but at least with a minimal hint of balancing acidity. One dimensional.

Tried from Bottle on 06 Dec 2004 at 09:32


4.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 4.5

Bottled. Hazy red, red pink head. Estery raspberry jam aroma. Very candyish and sugary. The flavour in itself is not bad, but it’s cloyingly sweet and very one-dimensional.

Tried from Bottle on 06 Dec 2004 at 09:31


4.3
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 4

Bottled. Pale golden, lightly hay. Sweet cider aroma. Candyish, sugary and one-dimensional. Near Floris-like...

Tried from Bottle on 06 Dec 2004 at 09:29


6.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Bottled Oct 2003/ BBd 2012(!) Dirty dark brown with reddish shine; dirty cream coloured, moussy head. Heavily perfumed fruitnose, with raspberry jam connotations. Part natural sugared fruit, part bathroom pearls. Nearly tart, surprisingly dry, very moderately sweet beer, fruitiness not very outspoken. Soft lactic & citric acid at tonguesides, more MF than taste. Much better than expected. But there remains a revolting perfumey thread running through it all the way. Quite dry, well-bodied, nearly creamy, a fruitbeer from Oudenaarde worthy. If they could cleanse this beer from the artificial womens’-magazine-perfumey-waxcandle taint, ’t would be quite good. As such, it isn’t.

Tried from Bottle on 02 Dec 2004 at 13:59


6.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

0.75 l bottle Soda and cherry fizzlesticks, very slight horseblanket. Hazy neon burgundy color, lots of champagne carbonation, low patchy off-white head. Very fruity, quite sweet - only a bit sourness towards the end - a little bit faro-like caramell as well. Medium body and sparkly mouthfeel.

Tried from Bottle on 02 Nov 2004 at 14:32