De Molen Lief & Leed

Flemish Red

3.6

156 reviews

Bodegraven, Netherlands

Community reviews

3.9 Bottle. Pours a dark reddish brown, no head. Aroma is balsamic vinegar, caramel, sour, light sweet. Taste is full of sour. Balsamic vinegar, apple skin, caramel, light cherry. Mouth filling, chewy.

4.1 330ml bottle from Saveur-Biere.fr. Pours a deep reddish brown with minimal head. Aroma is vinous sour fruit. Taste is a balanced Flanders Red with good crisp, plump, fruity flavours and a curious pickled onion tang on the finish. Very nice indeed.

3.9 Bottle. Ale House bottle share, 4th August 2015. No lacing. Really hazy appearance. Aroma is brett, like Cantillon, sugar and peach. Taste is a peach brett sour. Really dry and drinkable. Top work.

4.0 Sweet cherry and vinegar aroma. Medium to high sour. Some fruits. Tart finish.

3.5 Bottle to tulip Bile, candied sugar, cherry, rhubarb, and wheat. Colour is a hazy reddish amber with a thin white ringed head. The taste starts off with cherry, then I get something akin to chalk, but not quite, and thin artificial milk chocolate.

3.6 Bottle - Sweet and cherry tart notes with some malt in the back ground. Dirty brown red with a small head. Cherry, light dusty and malt with a tart finish. Nose is great.

3.8 Funky tart aroma in a murky burgundy copper pour. Similarly tart flavour profile with a funky complexity and fruity finish.

4.0 2012 bottling - fantastic nose that invites the palate to imbibe. Pours quite a murky brick red. First hit get those taste buds into action and then the flavours just keep cascading through.

3.6 Bottle shared at home. Cloudy brown with short lasting off white head. Red wine, red berries, a hint of cinnamon, quite funky. Light grains, grape skins and old nuts. Tate is medium sour with light sweetness. The aroma is not super complex, the main component is the sour taste, but it all works nicely together. Medium bodied with puckering feel. Ok stuff.

3.9 Bottle at home. Dark brown, transparent colour with a short-lived, white, foamy head. Sour fruity nose and taste with cherries and green apples, vinegar and light maltiness. Quite complex. Lingering fruity, sour finish. Good body, low carbonation. In comparison to the benchmark Rodenbach Grand Cru/Vintage this is less balanced (especially, too sour) and lacks some depth in flavour.

3.9 Pours murky reddish brown, thin short-lived white head. Aromas of wild yeasty funk, red berries, dampness. Taste is only slightly sweet, very sour. This is pretty nice actually, strangely so. It’s powdery, medium-full bodied, tangy. I’d happily drink again.

3.9 Brown cloudyish color. The smell is like an oud bruin. The taste is intensely sour with little carbonation. The aftertaste is dry and has a sour aftertaste. This is a real great beer.

3.9 Amber color with small white head. Flanders red aroma, cherries, sweet balsamico, funk. Taste is cherries, a bit leather, blackberries in the aftertaste. Smooth carbonation. Nice balanced Flanders red!

3.8 Bottle from Vinspecialisten, Aalborg. Hazy amber red with a small off-white head. Aroma is sweet, malty, caramel, sour fruit and barnyard. Flavor is quite sweet and light acidic. Dry and light acidic finish. 140515

3.4 Aromat: wyraźna kwaskość i czerwone owoce oraz kuszące akcenty beczkowe z wanilią na czele. Barwa: czerwona, klarowna, niestety praktycznie bez piany. Niewielka beżowa koronka tworzy się po nalaniu i niemal natychmiast zanika. Smak: kwaskowośc wykrzywiająca język z posmakami słodowymi (chlebowo- karmelowymi). Następnie wino owocowe (które z czasem się nasila), jednak alkoholowość jest niewielka. Goryczka symboliczna, niewyczuwalna. Średnia pełnia, niskie wysycenie, wytrawny i kwaskowy finisz. Zdecydowanie degustacyjne piwo, bowiem nie wyobrażam sobie wypicia więcej niż jednego i to w małej butelce.

3.7 Bottle from Charles C,thanks. Short brown head. Very clowdy brown beer. Nice acidity in the aroma blended with a woody hop. Fine acidity with fresh fruity taste and a tiny sweetness.

2.2 Bottle from The Beerhive. Hazy amber body with no head. Low carbonation. No lacing. Aroma of raspberry vinegar, orange sherbet and foam bananas. Flavour is extremely sour - underripe plum, vinegar and Worcestershire sauce. Thin body with a watery texture. Light fizz. Interesting aroma but bordering on undrinkable. Far too tart to be enjoyable.

3.8 Bottle. Aroma is nice, fruity, bit dusty and musty. Taste is good, nice, marzipan, brown sugar, initial puckering sourness. Finish is more fruity and with some maltiness hiding. Nice.

3.3 Aroma: barn, sour, phenols. Appearance: clear, copper color, no head. Taste: low bitterness, really sour, barn, bandage, dark malts. Palate: low body and medium carbonation, sour finish. Overall: One-dimensional sour beer, intensive wild notes, I expected something more.

3.7 Bottle from Sake Taniguchi (World Beer Market). Fruity nose of cherries and light sweet fruit, some funk. Thin reddish brown color. Smooth but tart initial, some vinegar, berries, Brett, and gentle maltiness in finish. Thin body and quite crisp. Not a bomb of acid tartness, but full of moderated flavors. Nice stuff.

3.3 750ml bottle pours an amber orange color with a finger of white head that settles down to leave very little lacing on the glass. Aroma is lemon and yeast. Taste is sour lemons with some dry yeasty notes. Medium bodied with good carbonation. Overall, sour lemons and yeast in a bottle. This brew needs more malt and/or hops to balance out the sourness. A well crafted brew that just misses the mark.

3.5 4oz pour on tap at Liberty’s, for $4.50. Dark fruit, vanilla, mild vinous character up front in the aroma, just a touch of vinegar. Some cherry and chocolate. Pour does not look very impressive at all. Pours with a minimal ring of bubbly head, which quickly fades to nothing. Hazy dark brown red color. Palate is also very light on carbonation, too, but its not too bothersome. Satisfying bigger body, kind of slick finish. Works. Moderate sweet taste, moderate tart, good woody character. Lightly spicy. Mild saltiness? Enjoyable flemish red style.

3.6 Fast gone off-white head over copperish-ruby beer. Alcoholic, syrupy-sweet nose with fruity & hoppy aromas, liqueurish, hints at young oak. Smells phenomenally alcoholic for only 6.2% ABV. Sour with a faint fruity sweetness in the background. Sour cherries (yet not the sour cherry version!) and other (sour) red fruit. Bit of lemon, and very old wine, some wood. Retronasal strawberries - unripe ones. Sharp acidburn, nearly dry-out effect, lipsmacking acidity. No alcoholeffect in the mouth, in contrast to the nose. Good, if a tad crude Oud Bruin.

4.0 Bottle, 33cl, 1 y.o. Pours intense tea with thin and short-lasting foam. Aroma is sour, very intense, biological, yeasty. Taste is amazing, very sour, a bit salty, with low bittering finish and dry aftertaste. Cannot feel roasted barley. Highly drinkable and enjoyable.

3.3 Clear, attractive red brown colour. No head to speak of. Light body and little carbonation, but the sourness gives an impression of a fuller body. Sour, sharp fruit, tea. Strong but well balanced sour ale.

3.8 33cl bottle at home. Dark amber brown with a small tan head. Medium body with quite some carbonation. Nice sourness with some sweet tones. Apple, vinegar, lemon, spices and herbs. A great tasty well balanced sour brew.

3.5 How: Bottle. Where: SMÖF 2014. Appearance: Hazy amber colour with a small beige head. Aroma: Sour, fruit, citrus, grapefruit. Body: Medium body and carbonation. Flavour: Sour, fruit, citrus, vinous, caramel, grapefruit.

3.5 33 cl bottle. Pours murky red-brown color with no head. Sour dark berries and some plums on the nose, yeasty and some wood also. Nice cherry flavor, tangy, some plums, citric fruit notes also. Mouth-drying effect, nice Flemish Red. 3354

3.5 Trübes rötlich oranges Bier mit geringer beigen Schaumkrone. Geruch holzig, säuerlich, reife dunkle Beeren. Geschmack nach sauren reifen Kirschen, leicht pelzig, holzig, minimal alkoholisch.

4.4 Bottle, 0.33l, shared with Hoppiness crew. Hazy ruby brown color with small off-white head. Aroma of wine, sour cherry and strong notes of wood. Taste starts musty and with ripe fruits acidity, follows by tannin bitterness at the back of palate, which creates pretty warming mouthfeel. Medium to full body, oily texture and soft carbonation in palate. Liquid tart fruit cake...