Rodenbach Redbach

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Bottled. Slightly hazy ruby red colour with mediumsized reddish-white head. Aroma is sour cherries, some wood and mild herbal notes. Flavour is bit sweeter cherries with some wooden hints, as well as paperyness. Aftertaste is cherries, some sourness and wood. refreshing.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 4 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 4 | Overall: 4

Pours with an initially two-finger thick, pinkish tinged tan colored head which falls fairly quickly. The beer is a deep, stained, dark cherry red color, but shows a brilliantly clear, red color when held up to the light. The aroma is an weird mix of super cherry notes and an almost stem like, vegetal note that is a bit off-putting. Perhaps that vegetal note is just an artificial cherry note as the aroma sort of smells fake and plastic like. There is very little, if anything to suggest that this is a beer at base level.

Sweet up front and it get a bit more so as one moves towards the middle. It picks up some tartness towards the finish, but really thins out quite a bit. Very sweet, tastes like washed out cherry juice that has been overly sweetened. Not all that offensive (it does have that same fake plastic note as in the aroma), but it really is just lacking in a cherry depth. Simplistic in its portrayal of the cherry, it is missing a tannic, cherry skin flavor and pit character that is much needed. Even the cherry notes seem to be missing that ripe cherry-flesh quality that a good cherry beer has.

This really does taste like watered down, sweetened cherry juice. This is not really beer, though on the upside it is not nearly as sickly sweet as I was expecting. As a beer it is a failure, but it is mostly just an inoffensive drink, one which I most definitely will not be having more of.

Aroma: 5 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6

this beer poured with a darker red body and was topped off by a smaller slightly pink head that left very little lace with poor retention. THe aroma was yeasty with some artificial sour cherry tones as well. The mouthfeel was medium bodied fairly well carbonated and pretty easy to drink. THe flavor was sour cherries, bready yeast and some light malty tones. All in all this is a pretty dispensible beer, given it's high availibility it's probably the first flemish sour for alot of people, just don't let this scare you away or by any means think that its at the top of its style.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 7

I tried this beer for the first time in the FLY restaurant in downtown Tampa, FL. It came with a Redbach float - 2 scoops of vanilla ice cream in a beer glass and the Redbach was poured in. Deliciuos!!!! You have to try it and give some to your friends. Best dessert ever!!

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Beer poured purple/red color with ok head and little lacing. The aroma was that of cherry soda with a touch of vinegar. The flavor was akin to the Grand Cru watered down with cherry soda. More tartness emerged as it warmed, but not enough. I'll take the GC any day over this!

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

This Flemish Sour pours a deep red color from a 330ml bottle. Medium sized white foamy head. Aroma is tart cherries, fruity and sweet. A medium bodied ale. Malts are fruity and sweet, cherries and cheery juice. Kind of sweet with some tartness. Slight touch of funk, mostly sweet fruits. Interesting beer. Mouthfeel is full and round. Finish is clean and crisp. Aftertaste is slightly tart.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 9 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

Off the beaten path, I was slightly blown away by this beer. Tangy, sweet, sour and tart rolled together. My tastebuds were tickled by this great brew. Now this is my first flemish sour and it has real cherry juice blended in to it so I can't judge this per the style but rather by my enjoyment. Mild sweet & sour aroma faint and subtle. Light mahagony with a light pink head, little lacing was left. Mouthfeel is perky and tart, absolutely different than any other I've had. Flavor is amazingly quenching. Very hard to describe it needs to be sampled personally. Almost like the homemade wine I remember my pops making. Unique and really good.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 8

so the redbach came across like a fruit beer and overall a nice drinkable blend with their sour ale. I could easily keep drinking this.....It was a wine like cherry color with a light pink head. First across where slight musty notes in the finish with a noticeable freshness to follow...A light mouthfeel of soft playful bubbles...Aroma of sweet cherry pie. A dry woody/stem taste blended with a light creaminess i got in the finish....The blend of cherry juice with rodenbach cut some of the sourness yet added tartness

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

I think Rodenbach missed the mark when they were making this as a flemish sour, because there's no way in hell this is a flemish sour. I can safely say this is a fruit beer through and through. Aroma is cherries, only slightly acidic (in the smallest of ways), and some sweetness comes through. Appearance is a dark reddish hue with barely any head. Mouthfeel was a little thick, but not enough to be considered cloying. Flavors were good enough with part cherries, part medicinal and very sweet. The sweetness is just simply too amped up to be a flemish sour (where's the sour?!?). Still, to rate it on a hedonistic scale, it's drinkable and enjoyable. It would receive much lower marks had I rate it on what it claims to be.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Lousy flemish sour, decent fruit beer (which is how I'll rate it). Pours the burgundy / garnet color with a very small partial head that didn't stick around. The lacing was nil. The aroma was the best part, cherries, some oak. The flavor was cherries first, too much cherry juice, light oak and leather underneath. This avoided the sweet approach of the trendy lambics, but didn't offer enough tart to balance the cherry juice out. Again, too fruity, without the complexity and smooth mouthfeel that the Liefman's Kriekbier had.