Boutip (9769) reviewed Frambozenbier from Liefmans 22 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
This seems like the perfect match between champagne, beer and raspberry juice. Good sour taste and very refreshing for those hot summer days
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Odnar from Liefmans 22 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8
Yellow-brown head, nearly immediately reduced to slim rim. Dark brown beer with clear reddish shine. Very woody nose with tannine, ironoxide, vinous. Taste is sweetish-sour: good maltbase, beautiful lactic acid, some ironoxide again and very clearly Maillard. Retronasal sour fruity as kiwi, gooseberry or unripe peach. Light bodied. Superbly thirst-quenching. This is a relic of a bygone age - both bottle (perfectly illegal with no ABV, no sell-by date, painted- on logo) and beer. Liefmans used to produce to kinds of beer, the 6° and the 8°. This last made up the Goudenband. The lighter was the Odnar. Somewhere in between came the "IJzerenband" (=Ironband), and a sweetened version called "Abdij van Maegdendaele". The Odnar, somehow survived but is exceedingly rare.
caesar (10848) reviewed Oud Bruin from Liefmans 22 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Quite weak flemish sour ale. Brown color, lasting head. Tart and oaky aroma. Watery, but typical flemish sour ale flavors.
caesar (10848) reviewed Fruitesse Kriek from Liefmans 22 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4
Clear pink color, with a medium pink head. Smells like cherry, cherry, oh and cherry. Sweet and slightly sour flavor of cherry. Sticky palate. When i ordered this at the Beerpassion Festival in Antwerp, the brewer said to me: "Quite nice beer for your girlfriend". And so it is...
omhper (44752) reviewed Odnar from Liefmans 22 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7.5
Bottled. Chestnut brown. Acidic and balsamic. Clean, rather hard maltiness, notes of black cherries and a caramel malt finish. Very pleasant.
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Jan van Gent from Liefmans 22 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Thick white head, going down lacey. Beer orange-amber. Vaguely caramel nose, sweet. Impression of coriandre leaf. Sweet, malty taste, cheesy as with stale hops. Vague bitterness, not hoppy. Bit empty mouthfeel. Long sticky sweet aftertaste, alternating with (stale) spicey bitterness, like some average pilseners. What's this to do with Liefmans? Gino, please change this.
Ungstrup (52110) reviewed Goudenband from Liefmans 22 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
The aroma is very fruity, sweet, and earthy with notes of wild yeast, raspberry, other berries, and rhubarb. The color is a deep red hazy one with a fine though fast disappearing head. The flavor is sweet, sour, and metallic from the wild fermentation with notes of rhubarb - somewhat undescribable. It ends on a pretty earthy note - with no hints of the ABV. A little disappointing for me - but my expectation was high.
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Kriek Ongezoet op Vat from Liefmans 22 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9
The literature first. This beer is NOT the same as the ubiquitous bottled Liefmans kriek - nor the more common draught version of the same. It is a much paler kriek, not blended with the darker young beer. Once the highlight of an Antwerp beerpub, the only place I find it today is in a pub/hotel in Brugge. the sweeter version is NO match at all. Beautiful deep-red colour with cyclamen shine. Slight, pink head. Nose of real sour cherries (the darker kriek is woodier). Taste are real sour cherries again, but with something in the finish of a maraschino-cherry, but with no sweetness at all. The mouthfeel is expressly tart, with an outspoken drying-out effect. Long lasting, dry fruity aftertaste. Yes, they still can do it if pressed hard enough. The oud bruin -notes are missing, but so is thankfully all that superfluous syrupy sweetness.
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Oud Bruin from Liefmans 22 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Colour: very dark brown with reddish shine/very rich creamy head, yellowish-brown. Nose: very fruity, wooden-tart notes, sour fruit; also aroma as from oak casks having contained wine. Taste: immediately very winey, slight sourish taste - unmistakably lactic acid; woody, tannins; Maillard reaction (as of brown bread crust) and iron oxide (both signs of long cooking proces). Mouthfeel: light, thinnish, possibly accentuated by the acids; yet the aftertaste is chewy enough; again very oxidised tones as of Madeira or Port vintages. The mouthfeel notwithstanding, it is hard to believe, when tasting, that this beer has only 5% ABV!
fiulijn (28382) reviewed Goudenband from Liefmans 23 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottled May 2002 Beautiful dark amber color; thick, generous head. Sweet, sour, vinous aroma; less fruity than other favourites (Duchesse de Bourgogne, Bourgogne des Flandres...). Strong body, without any original character, some sweetness, cork, wood, sour bitterness.
The other Flemish Sour Ales that I prefer have a different bitterness and most of all a well defined fruity character.