Rodenbach Vintage
Rodenbach Vintage is the unique result of selection by our Rodenbach brew masters, the barrel after two years of maturation has produced the best beer, "the best barrel of the year". The label is always the number of barrel stated and the year which marks the beginning of maturation.
Rodenbach Vintage is 100% matured old beer, resulting in superior Rodenbach Grand Cru. Its taste is complex, round, intense and refreshing. Typically, the apple tart fruitiness combined with caramel, wild honey and oak with a hint of vanilla, cherry and licorice. Its aroma has hints of caramel and oak, as well as notes of green apples mixed with honey and chocolate. The soft sour, fruity aftertaste is long and nicely balanced like a grand cru wine.
Ingredients: water, barley malt, corn, hops.
Rodenbach Vintage is 100% matured old beer, resulting in superior Rodenbach Grand Cru. Its taste is complex, round, intense and refreshing. Typically, the apple tart fruitiness combined with caramel, wild honey and oak with a hint of vanilla, cherry and licorice. Its aroma has hints of caramel and oak, as well as notes of green apples mixed with honey and chocolate. The soft sour, fruity aftertaste is long and nicely balanced like a grand cru wine.
Ingredients: water, barley malt, corn, hops.
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Flaske. Flot rødbrun øl med minimalt skumhoved. Duften er balsamico med noget sødme. Smagen er fantastisk med sur emalje, men perfekt balanceret. Yeah baby.
Earlier Rating: 12/23/2011 Total Score: 4
Flaske: Rødbrun øl med et stort skumhoved. Duften er primært balsamico, der igen dominere i smagen. Virkelig en dejlig øl men lige lidt under cuvee de ranke. Begge dejlige og yderst drikbare.
This is my annual December waiting, clearly a nice treat and enjoyable complex sour. A reference.
Earlier Rating: 7/15/2020 Total Score: 4.4
Shared with my nephew, on another busier day with lots of little elves in the house. I must be getting in sync with sour as this one was really impressive. It is quite fantastic that you can find beer beer so easily now in grocery stores or at the LCBO. I’ll buy few more.
Earlier Rating: 4/14/2020 Total Score: 4
Picked on December 2018, similar rating as the 2014 and 2015 versions, good old vintage for the win!
Earlier Rating: 4/14/2020 Total Score: 4
Same issue as the 2014 version, picked in December 2017, another classic vintage.
Earlier Rating: 4/14/2020 Total Score: 4
Not sure that I need to rate this beer, as a different vintage, but since I drank this and picked it in December 2016, here it is.
Earlier Rating: 4/12/2017 Total Score: 3.5
My first sour ale. As a fairly new customer, it appearsI don’t have the taste ready for that. Although, I bought a few to revisit this beer strongly recommended by two connoisseurs.Took the 2015 yesterday with my brother. Nice day, nice company. +0.2
Short-lived, cream-tinted head over clear, deep cardinal-red to brown beer. Acetic acid, lactic acid, yoghurt, dried red fruit, overripe banana, babymilk. Dried fruit, red but also dates, figs, on red wine vinegar, brown candi sugar in buttermilk, lactic acid, malonic acid, biscuit. Acidthinning, light -burn, lipsmacking acidity, slick. As it is, not the best from the Vintage series, but might improve.
Earlier Rating: 3/7/2021 Total Score: 4.1
Small cream head, fast gone over red-brown beer, almost clear. Wood a mile out, more closely vinegar, lactic acid, red fruit preserved on acetic wine. Overripe red fruit, not rotten. Sour, vinous in the mouth, with a glimpse of fruitsweetness, lightly oak, various acids, but not too sharp. Extra fruity character. Acidthinning, light -burn, not very carbonated, quite slick. Nose is just a tad too sharp. The rest, however...
Earlier Rating: 2/28/2021 Total Score: 3.9
I Obviously aged sample /I Greyish white, medium head over reddish brown beer, lazily bubbled. Serious UFO's at the end of bottle. Sweet-sour, lactic acid, hints at acetic, babymilk reflux. Sweet-sour, in a very good balance, and way more fruity than the nose; red fruit and berries. Acidthinning, light acidburn, very slick. Nose has this typical Rodenbach smell when too pungent really unpleasant, but the taste is heaven.
Earlier Rating: 2/14/2021 Total Score: 3.7
I Obviously aged sample /I No head, reddish-dark Armenian cognac coloured beer. Acetic acid, aniline, wood, sharp nose. Port, pure madeirisation; sweet with balsamico behind. Gives a bit sweetenED impression. Wood, cherries, cherryvinegar and -liqueur. Very slick to oily, absolutely still, sticky. Not the best version. I Thanks to Stef! /I
Earlier Rating: 2/14/2021 Total Score: 4.2
2015 version Foeder 195 Small to medium, slowly receding off-white head; copper-chestnut to ruby clear beer. Wood, lactic & acetic acid, unripe red fruit, vinous. Sour cherries, lactic acid, old wine, just-not-ripe plums. Dry-out effect, acidthinning, very long-lasting flavours. Excellent foeder, I'd say.
Earlier Rating: 2/14/2021 Total Score: 4
2016 version Dark cream head, fast reduced to rim, dark reddish brown beer. Sweetish-sour, vulcanized rubber, sulphur, wood. Dry wood, dry black chocolate, finish is lactic and acetic. Burning MF, acidburn and -thinning. Low to medium carbonation. Nose has an unpleasant touch, but the taste remains right on spot.
Earlier Rating: 10/27/2009 Total Score: 4.2
2007 Vintage - bottled; was: 7/4/8/4/14~3.7Good, lightly cream-coloured head over deep, dark, chestnut-brown beer. Sour, wood, and some artificial sweetness in the nose, totally unlike the Céreale, sweet-lactic, like coffeemilk. Sourish, with a taste as from speculoos , fairly sweet, and lightly spicy. Lactic acid again. Faint astrigency, "mildered" by whatever is added - still dry-out effect, but tame. It still is a nice beer. But compared to the "Vin de Céreale", it is a total dumb-down. Why the colouring, why the sweetener - certainly not for the American customers, asking for Alexander, no?
2008 version, draught Very good light-beige, dense and fine head over red-amber-shot brown beer, clear. Nice Rodenbach nose with lactic & little acetic acid; fruity, woody. Excellent sour-light sweetish balance, outspokenly fruity. Retronasal oold cookies and wild strawberries. Serious acidburn, slick and medium bodied. Wààày better than the 2007 bottled version.
2009 version, bottledHuge foxy-cream coloured head over foxy red-amber beer. Sharp-sourish, really acetic nose. Fruit following, cherry liqueur. Cherry-filled chocolates to finish. Sourish, tart, woody and fruity, with some restsweetness for excellent balance. Sharpish, acidburn, quite well-carbonated, luxurious texture. Very good Rodenbach, concentrated on fruit and tart wood. Points for 2009 vintage: 7/4/8/4/16=3.9/5
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2019 version Foeder 137 bottle. Small, just cream-tinted head over hazy red-brown beer. Lactic acid, acetic hint, old wood, hint of chocolate; the Rodenbach host of critters. Lactic acid, some exotic unnamed fruit, red fruit, grapes. Sourish, yet an underlying barleymalt base. Tart, dry-out effect. Slick in a not oily way. Quite good batch. 8/4/8/4/17 = 4.1/5
All these bottlings ought to be separate entries
Vintage 2007. Barrel No 230 - Dark 750ml Bottle from Beer Planet (in november 2011). Five years Aged in my dark cellar (taste in november 2016). Long Acid and fruit finish, Ale sie dzialo kwasno dziko, zywiolowo, bardzo owocowo, zurawina dzika lesne jagody, pozeczki czarne i czerwone i mnostwo wisni. Kwaskowy posmak, wytrawne niebywale czasami to az usta sie krzywily i wolaly o jeszcze. Ciemno bordowa barwa ze znikoma, a praktycznie zerowa piana. Bliskie do wytrawnych najbardziehj szlachetnych win. Na zakonczenie pozostawia wisniowo balsamiczna lepkosc w ustach. Classic and Powerfull Sour Ale. For me one of the best Ale in The world. I'm love it and die for this.
Vintage 2013. Foeder nr 149. - White 375ml Limited Edition Bottle. From Piwa regionalne in Katowice. Alez sie tu dzieje.. Przesiakniete drewno beczki przez dwa lata w okazalych 59-cio letnich beczkach zrobilo swoje, wlasciwie powinienem napisac dobra robote. Taniny wszedzie ich mnostwo, tyle co siwych wlosow na brodzie mikolaja. Niesamowicie pachnie dobrym octewm winnym. Barwa kasztanowo rdzawa, klarowna, bez piany, pojawiaja sie w posmaku nuty wanilli, pestki moreli, nieco cierpkich wisni, zakwas z bcwiklowego. Fenomenalne Flanders Red.
Vintage 2016 Foeder no. 222. half champagne bottle. This year That Flanders red winning two World Beer Awards. no to skoro juz w 2016 jako swierze bylo takie dobre to czy po 5 latach bedzie jeszcze lepsze. Flandersy sie doskonale starzeja, a Rodenbach to ikona stylu jest mega winne, ocet balsamiczne, rozgniecione na miazge czarne cierpkie porzeczki, nieco wisni. bardzo winne, piana srednia, opada szybko, barwa klarowna czerono-brazowa. pachne drewnem, mokrym starym drewnem, nie dziwi nie to bo jak wiadomo Rodenbach dysponuje ponad 100 letnimi beczkami, jest piwnicznie, nieco stajennie. po prostu wspaniale. do niedzielnego objadu, a zwlaszcza surowki kimchi pasowalo doskonale. to wydanie i ten rocznik ma dusze Burgundii z cala pewnoscia. zlota etykieta, a wlasciwie cala butelka adekfatna do zlotych nagrod i medali.
Earlier Rating: 2/7/2012 Total Score: 5
[8/11] 2007 bottle. Murky brown with a beige head. Aroma of cherries, strawberries, tart apples, wood - OK but doesn’t promise all that much. Slippery mouthfeel. Taste is sweet and sour with very tightly integrated flavours. There’s berries, brown sugar, vinegar, oak, vanilla, almonds, white pepper. Some acid and wood at the end. Intense and fairly complex but really easy drinking. [4.1]
[2/18] 2014 Bottle. Clear brown with a beige head that's soon gone. Tart and woody flavours balance sweet fruit and malt. Marzipan, cherries, stems, strawberries. Lovely flavours and balance. Leaving score as is but tempted to drop it .1 - the same as my score as Grand Cru. This really only edges it.
[2/21] 2016 Foeder 222. Didn't realise this has a separate entry (now it doesn't). Lovely deep clear red, no head. Intense reduced balsamic vinegar and chocolate aroma, some cherries, lemon, almonds. Then it's mellower than that suggests. Low carbonation. Just short of syrupy. Sour, only slightly vinegary (ie less so than Grand Cru). A rumbling malty/ chocolaty richness that's unusual with fruit and wood floating on top. Lovely.
Bottle. Reddish-amber color with bronze, slightly yellowish foam. Aroma: vinegar and homemade red wine, cherries, dried fruits, caramel, good. Sour taste + sweets, candies, vinegar, homemade wine, very good.
Earlier Rating: 9/26/2016 Total Score: 3.9
Bottle. Bronze amber color. Aroma: household vinegar, wine, raisins, sour, fruity, barrel. Taste: wine, vinegar, sour and sweet, oaky.
Bottle. Pours a slightly hazy reddy brown with an off white head. Aroma has red berries, lemon, light custard, white wine, light toasted white bread. Light to medium body, full, fine carbonation. Pleasantly tart, with lemon, lots of red berries, light smokiness, wood, prunes, leather, hint of egg... tasty stuff.
Kolor brązowo czerwony, prawie klarowny. Piana średnio wysoka, o barwie biało różowej, raczej z tych średnio trwałych. Nie pozostawia żadnych śladów.
Aromat delikatnie kwaskowy, słodki, przypomina nieco winiak. Czuć czerwone owoce (głównie wiśnie), pestki, drewno i lekkie nuty octu jabłkowego. W tle przyjemne nuty trawiaste i ziemiste.
Smak wytrawny, lekko kwaskowy, choć i delikatną słodycz też można tu poczuć. Słodkie i kwaśne atrybuty smaku kojarzą się z owocami. W tle akcenty winne, octowe. Na finiszu ściągająca cierpkość i lekka, pestkowa goryczka.
Wysycenie średnie do wysokiego. Ciało średnie, tekstura szorstka. Posmak długi, kwaskowy, winny, owocowy.
75cl Bottle @ Drinks of The World, Geneva, Switzerland.
Reddish brown colour with a thin white head.
Aroma is cherries, vinegar.
Taste is cherries, vinegar, oak, tart.
Medium body, average carbonation.
375ml bottle - Pours an almost clear coppery brown colour with a small beige head. A vinegary fruity aroma, cherries, dark berries and oak. A sweet and tart fruity taste, vinous, vinegar, cherry, malt and oak flavours with a lingering smooth and sour fruity finish.
Earlier Rating: 4/20/2018 Total Score: 3
Sur och söt. Smak av röda bär. Jättegod.
*rating overgezet 2016* Het is een troebel oranje achtig bier met een dun wit schuim. Het heeft een zure gistachtige geur. De smaak is zuur en wrang.
Fles 75cl thuis als Rodenbach Vintage 2011, Limited Edition Barrel 95. 6%. Zoetig, zurig, wrang, rood fruit, fris, complex. (3-2015). 4.3
Fles 37,5cl thuis als Rodenbach Vintage 2015, Red Ale Foeder No 195. Zoet, kers, licht zuurtje, droog. (2-8-2018).
Earlier Rating: 6/15/2018 Total Score: 4.3
Bottle caged & corked 37.5cl. from my 'cellar' bough 3/16, @home poured into a good wine glass. Clear amber brown, small frothy beige head, lasts for a short while, light lacing. Rich and comforting aroma cherries, wood, oak, vanilla, marzipan, balsamico, fortified wine. Taste medium sweet and sour, cherries, vinegar, wood, oak, vanilla notes. Medium body, sticky texture, soft carbonation, vinous mouthfeel, soft carbonation, very good balance of sweet and sour, sweet and sour aftertaste, mellow woody notes, excellent brew, loved every sip...
Mums, eddike, fad, frugt Bottle @ home, thx Louise & Patrick, Vintage 2016, Foeder nr 222. Clear red-brown w a very thin beige head. Aroma medium to heavy yeasty (sour and sweet, red fruit, barrel, tart, sweat). Flavor medium+ tart, vinegar, sour, sweet, red fruit, barrel, brett. Medium body, average carbonated. Very nice.
Earlier Rating: 2/14/2013 Total Score: 3.6
Tap @ Fermentoren, vintage 2015. Wonderful again.
Bottle at home, vintage 2011. Wonderful, nice fruity and acidic vintage.
Bottle at home, vintge 2009, barrel # 145.
Slight hazy red with a medium light brown head, quickly gone, small lacings. Aroma medium malty (fruity, sour cherries, wood), havy yeasty (sour). Flavor medium sweet, fruity, then medium to heavy sour/acidic. Medium+ body, soft carbonated. 2013.02.14
Dark, ruby color with an off-white head. Old balsamico, tart,sweet, acidic, spicy. Well balanced. Great stuff.
[Vintage 2011]:
Clear, dark chestnut color and a small tan head. Soft carbonation, sour, balsamico. Rather smooth mouthfeeling compared with the younger ones. Quit sofr.
The pour is a lovely golden bright red that settles into a much darker shade of red in the glass, where it is septs as expected a muddy reddish brown with a memory of head but is now a scant film atop.
The aroma in the glass is much deeper and has a tonne of wine and deep fruit notes, and a hint of something like a bubblegum if I'm being fanciful and wordy.
This is drop dead gorgeous to drink, there's an outstanding level of bitterness that is carried on a much lighter fruit cushion with quite a high sugar hit to finish and fall away easily, to a smile. Making my lips I can't help but pucker and squint a little at that sourness, in a good way not that one of aghast and horror. This is really enjoyable beer.
Bottle pours mostly clear reddish amber with a small somewhat fizzy beige head. Big cherry and vinegar aroma. Flavor is sweet and tart, big cherry, acetic, oak. Medium body with a lively full feel. Nice one.
Earlier Rating: 12/13/2010 Total Score: 3.8
750ml bottle from K&L, enjoyed while sitting in a hot tub. Barrel #230, which seems to have been a big barrel. Clear deep ruby red in color with a lasting one-finger light tan head and good lacing. The aroma is nice, big on the cherries with slight vinegar, oak, and wild notes. The flavor has both some sweetness and some tartness. Big cherry flavors, balsamic vinegar, oak, and other fruitiness. Smooth and somewhat tingly on the mouthfeel with lively carbonation and a long finish. Really liked this one overall.
20-09-2020 @mas_ibus Torrelavega
37.5 cl. bottle at home. Low and quickly disappearing creamy light brown head. Hazy red brown body. Sour vineous vinegar berries aroma. Powerful and yet smooth sour berries flavor wih no hops bitterness, low carbonation and a long sweet and sour inish.
Earlier Rating: 12/1/2009 Total Score: 3.7
Bottle. High creamy and long lasting white head. Clear copper body. Lemon grapefruit vinegar acidic to sour aroma with notes of dried fruit. Relatively mild and sweet fruity flavor with some acidity but not really sour. Low carbonation, long aftertaste.
Hout, kersen en iets medicinaals... zuur zoet, levendige fijne fizz, hartig zoetje op de tong... veel hout in venijnige afdronk... interessant
Hazy dark red amber with a lasting off-white head. Aroma of balsamico, cherry and plum, caramel and brown sugar, with faint dusty notes of mushroom and wood. Sweetish and tart fruity and malty flavour
Earlier Rating: 11/12/2009 Total Score: 4.3
750ml bought at Vinens Verden Odense. Hazy deep red with lasting off-white head, sort of creamy. Red wine dominates the aroma, with wonderful vineous oak and raspberry notes, lacto, and definite diacetyl. Smmooooottthhh flavour, with wood, berry, tartness and sweetness and extreme deliciousness. Over a couple of years, this may very well turn out to be not just a superior Rodenbach but a plain masterpiece
#3804
Vintage 2012
Lightly cloudy, brown to red, without head. Aroma of grapes, sugar, jam, berries. Taste is dry, lightly sour, grapes, berries, very sharp, aged. Medium to fuller body, average carbonation.
7%ABV. Flanders red ale
Poured out brown. 28°SRM.
Nose has aromas of stone fruit preserves referencing dates, plums, and prunes. Background notes of barnyard funk are there with horseblanket, dirty straw, mud. There are also pleasant confectionery aromas referencing chocolate cherries, candied orange, and candied ginger. There are also aromas that suggest cookies and baked goods in the background, that give the impression of cake and fullness in the nose.
Mouthfeel is medium-full with moderate-low carbonation. There is a balanced fruitiness to the palate that makes each sip smooth, refreshing, and inviting. There is some residual sweetness that contributes to the impression of full ripe stone fruit. Alcoholic vapor with slight warmth belie the ABV.
Palate for me has 3 main components:
Front is sweet and fruity with honey plums, raisins, ripe sweet prunes, fresh dates, with components that suggest pome fruit like a ripe Red Delicious, and Anjou pears.
Middle is sour suggesting vinegar aged on wood where there is the rounded acidity and a woody perfume-like flavor impression.
Tail is the alcoholic and almost solvent-like heat, vapor, and bite.
There are also basenotes of breadcrusts, toast, pie crusts.
Hop flavors are woody and maybe even a little cheesy.
Finish is pleasing, smooth, even, balancing satiety and appetite.
Overall, a deeply pleasing quaff. One of my recent epiphanies. Not surprising given my experience with all of Rodenbach’s offerings so far, and that the Grand Cru has always been a go to favorite. Really really pleasing. I just can’t use that word enough...the product of experience, patience, and restraint.
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Bottle 0.375l, vintage 2012, barrel no. 170. Just lightly cloudy, red to brown colored. AROMA- aged, cherry, red berries, dark grapes, jam, red and black currants, strawberry, plums, wooden barrel. FLAVOR- lightly sour, moderately sweet, the same as aroma. Fuller syrupy body.
Very nice aged character, delicious beer.
750 ml bottle. Pours a bright mahogany with lots of carbonation and light head. Aromas of tart berries, green oak and vinegar. Flavors of soft fruit, tart berries, and oak. Quite fruity. Nice
Earlier Rating: 9/14/2013 Total Score: 4.2
750 ml bottle. Vintage 2010
Pours a dark red brown with little head.
Aromas of wood dark fruit and cherries.
Smooth. Thick dark cherry flavor with a little wood and vinegar. Still lots of fruit an still a little sweet.
Bottle. Vintage 2016, Foeder nr 222. Color: Reddish brown, very thin beige head. Aroma: Sour and sweet, red fruit, vanilla, vinuous. Taste: Tart moderate to over moderate sourness, also moderate to over moderate sweet. Notes of red fruit and hints of sour apples, caramel, hints of vanilla and wood. Over medium body, under average to soft carbonation. Vinuous. Bit viscous and sirupy, dry-ish and bit sticky mouthfeel. Reminds me somehow of 'appelstroop'. Long lasting finish. Pretty complex, very well balanced. Great beer.
Earlier Rating: 6/13/2018 Total Score: 4.8
Botle. Vintage 2013, Foeder nr 149. Color: Reddish brown, very thin beige head. Aroma: Sour and sweet, red fruit, vanilla, bit vinuous. Taste: Tart moderate to medium sourness, moderate sweet. Notes of red fruit and green apples, caramel, hints of vanilla and wood. Over medium body, under average to soft carbonation. Vinuous. Long lasting finish. Pretty complex, very well balanced. Great beer.
Earlier Rating: 11/28/2014 Total Score: 5
# 2052; 6/2020. Red and forest berris, very comlex aroma. Cooper body with nice spark. Excelent complexity, tart and Sweet, forest fruits. Excelent Beer! 0,1 l, tasting set, multitap bar, Prague.