Vondel Flemish Brown Ale
Dark, rich, strong, Flemmish brown ale.
3.5
292 reviews
Dentergem, Belgium
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Bottle shared by Nnudd. Dark brown body with a big light tan head. Lots of ripe fruit, caramel and some spicy yeast. Caramel, prune, raisin, molasses and light spicy flavour.
Pours a nice dark reddish amber color. Aromas of fruit, and some other hints, maybe some spices, maybe caramel. Flavor is a bittersweet, malty, and a hint of hops with a nice bittersweet finish.
Bottle at the Relentless Thirst Tasting on 08/29/2009. Clear brown body with floaties and a small off-white head. Sweet caramel and molasses aroma./ Sweet caramel, molasses, fruit, and rum soaked fruit flavor. Medium body with moderately high carbonation.
Bottle at the Relentless Thirst Gathering in Richmond, VA, 8.29.09. I think brewno from Cap Ale brought this one. Pours a reddish brown color with a slight haze and tiny floaties. Medium head with fair head retention and lacing. Aroma is earthy, musty and funky with caramel and leafy vegetal notes. Taste is caramel, light musty funk and a vegetal note. Very smooth and very enjoyable. Medium bodied.
Amazing beer. I was in a bar in Brugge when the bar tender realized that I really enjoyed beer. On the way out, we passed me this bottle - free of charge.
What a delight! Aroma is of rasins. Beer is sweet and smotth - probably a bit of vanilla - but not enough to taste. The beer ends easy with a hint of alcohol finish.
Thanks to HogTownHarry. Not sure of the vintage but the best before is 2010. Appearance: Brown/red with a medium off white head, a little visible carbonation. Aroma: Floral, sweet with dark fruit, malt, caramel and metal. Flavour: Chewy caramel with nuts, dark fruit, metal again, alcohol. It has a pleasant hop-caramel finish.
Sortie de mon cellier et dégusté avec Viak dans un verre de Westmalle. Apparence d’un brun ambré très foncé avec de fine particules marquant le verre et une mousse géante. Arômes de sucre à la crême, alcool ( vodka ) très présente, caramel et sucre brun. Goût semblable à une ( gulden draak ), miel, caramel, sucre brun, malt, levure et un peu de sel. Équilibre , sensation crémeuse et une bonne amertume. Très surpris et en toute plénitude.
Bottled, 330ml. Dark brown with white head. Sweet and powerful beer, plenty of syrupy caramel notes with pulpy fruit, ripe plum and pear. This was 7 years old and I did get a rich port, fortified wine note. Malts and yeast in the finish, it was a decent beer.
330ml bottle in trappist glass. Huge head. Could not even pour it entirely the first time. Strong yeast aroma. Some alcohol and fruits. Dark brown.astringent, Good amount of carbonation on the palate. Warm alcohol at the begining and at the end. Alcohol is very present all along. A bit metallic on the finish. Seems more and more metallic is I’m drinking it. I’m now near the end and its a bit more fruity. It as gotten better actually. Some bitterness on the finish and less but still some alcohol. Overall Ok beer but not so drinkable. Nice aroma and appearance though. Rating #25
33cl bottle at Delirium Cafe. Pours amber/ruby with a small creamy head. Sweet matured, cellar, mouldy aroma. Caramel, earthy, bread and sugar. Medium bodied. Smooth and round with a mouldy sweet caramel cellar note. Nice one!
Bottle at Galbraiths Ale House (in Auckland, NZ), a lively pour, brown with a huge light beige pillowy head. Caramal, nearly cola-ish, nose. Quite effervescent on the sweetish malty palate. A heap of licorice in the mouth, before a cleansing drying finish. Went down well with me.
dark brown coloured body with a large creamy off white head a roasted malty fruity aroma a malty caramel fruity mettalic taste with a mettalic alcoholic bitter finish
Bottle 33cl @ home.
Light unclear medium to dark red brown color with a large, frothy, good lacing, fully lasting, off-white to beige head. Aroma is moderate to light light heavy malty, roasted, caramel, dark berry - craneberry, moderate yeasty, woody. Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet, light to moderate acidic and light bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. (060708)
bouteille de 330ml, bière brune très foncée, mousse épaisse et avec beaucoup d’intensité, nez épicée, bouche consistante, épicée, agréable et longue. brassée par Liefmans à Dentergem...
Had this on tap @ in de Wildeman a few times. Dark ruby brown colour, big beige head. Aroma of dark fruits, brown sugar, yeast. Taste is sweet, dark fruits, a little yeast, somewhat dry finish. Nice mouthfeel, although the bottled version contains too much CO2, repressing the nice flavours a bit.
Strong, fruity, sweet but fairly dull brown ale. Drunk on tap at Chez Moeder Lambic. Looks gorgeous, a ruby-brown with tall, lasting beige head. Goes downhill from there. Relatively weak nose of cranberries, malt. Sweet flavor with fruity notes gets cloying as you drink more, very slight tartness, with a light bitterness and fruity tang on the finish. A bit thin and wet. Not bad, not interesting, not my style.
Bouteille de 330 ml. La bière est de couleur brune avec des reflets rubis. Une mousse légèrement brune de magnitude 7 sur l’échelle de Richter se présente à nos yeux. Au nez des arômes de levure, de caramel, de mélasse, d’alcool, d’épices et de sucre brun viennent saluer mon sens de l’odorat. En bouche la bière a un bon corps et nous dévoiles des saveurs d’alcool, de cerises confites, de levure, de canne à sucre et de caramel brûlé.
33 cL bottle. Pours dark and clear amber/brown with a huge tan head. Light malty and yeasty aroma. Dry and woody flavour. Light metallic edge. Light berry fruity flavour, minor sour note from this but really only minor. Nice lingering yeasty and fruity finish.
Dark brown with medium off white head. Sweet malty and yeasty aroma with ripe fruits and caramel notes. Flavor is sweet with notes of roasted malt, ripe fruits, caramel and yeast.
Bottle, bought @ Kolding Vinhandel.
Pours a great red-brown, rather hazy.Bubbly yellow-brown head - it turns into a small lacing creamy top. Aroma has yeast, prunes, slightly roasted, some distincts sourness. Quite high carbonated. Flavour is very yeasty, quite dry. Some slight chocolate and fruity sourness. Not spectacular, but still refreshing with a good aftertaste, in which the alcohol setlles nicely.
In short: Some kind caramelized Flemish Sour. Very solid.
How: Bottle 330ml, age unknown but consumed immediately after purchase
The look: Cloudy dark ruby with a medium beige head
In long: Very yeasty beer, almost too much so. Lots of malts. Grainy cereals, fruity caramel, ripe dark grapes, dried fruits and some woody notes. An overall sourness that doesn’t felt like cherry or oak sourness, more like sour candy/bubblegum from those 25 cents vending machines. Fluffy body. Overall rather enjoyable. Too bad that as of this writing Riva is in deep trouble and is as desperately in need of external support as your granny’s breast.
Pours clear amber into a Trappist glass. Little to no head leaves no lacing. Pit fruit aromas. Sharp pit fruit with little sourness.
Smokey malt aromawith a hin of chocolate. Dark brown colour with good head and lacing. Sweet malt flavour with bitter dark chocolate. Fizzy palate.
Aaahhh. I have fond memories of Vondel. I took a trip with my wife to Quebec about 5 years ago, and had Vondel at this great Moulette restuarant specializing in a variety of mussel dishes and lot of bottled Belgian beers. I loved Vondel, and so I brought a couple of bottles back home in my bookbag. The good old days when they allowed you to put bottles in your carry on luggage. Received this bottle via a trade with Francois_MTL on 12/11/2007. Best before 2010. Pours with a small head of rapidly fading small bubbles. High carbonation. Deep amber color. A tiny bit of cloudiness from the yeast sediment I poured into the glass. Buttery melanoidin malt aroma, possibly from a long boil. A tiny bit of banana in the aroma from a classic Belgian yeast strain. Leans a bit sweet, but then finishes dry.Better as it warms up.
Bottle. Great aromas of dark fruits and maybe some spices. Brown color with some sediment. A nice malty flavor and finsih.
75 cl. bottle - the beer forces the cork out of the bottle as soon as I loosen the metal wire. Dark brown with a stable but somewhat big bubbly head. The aroma has notes of candy sugar, dark, ripe fruit, peppermint and alcohol. I find the same notes in the flavour, that is rather sweet and also has notes of caramel and a hint of licorice. It’s a really nice beer, but the peppermint isn’t quite in my liking, even if it’s brief...
(33cl bottle, courtesy of bierkoning) Hazy, mahogany coloured, very effervescent hue with a big and persistent beige foamy head. Sweet, toasty malty and nutty aroma with caramel, liquorice and spices in combination with light floral notes. Sweet flavour, medium to full body with a moderate carbonation. Strong malty, toasty taste, slightly sugary with caramel; malt-accented, slightly alcoholic finish with liquorice and well-balanced spicy notes.
Bottled @ Drake’s Bar , Sao Paulo. A brown beer with a small beige head. Aroma is malty and yeasty with lots of caramel. Taste malty and sweet, notes of brown sugar, toffee and roasted malt. Lots of sediments in the end.
Draught. Very sweet nose, light fruit esters. Strawberry jam, some spice, touch of apricot. Very dark amber brown, opaque with a solid bubbly off white head. Good lacing. Strong sweet flavor upfront, lots of yeast notes mellow it out but it just tapers off into not much in the finish. The sweetness is between fruit and caramel. Palate lets the intense sweetness breath instead of being overpowering. Still, it could use a bit more body in the finish. Nonetheless a successful brew.
330mL bottle. Dark red colour with off-white head. Very sweet fruity-ish flavour, a bit watery. Malty finish, not too interesting. Not quite what I expected