Smoothly sour oak-casked Flanders Red Ale retains tannic raspberry tartness, oaken cherry leathering and cider vinegaring over butternut/chestnut-roasted caramelization. Dank cellared water funk provides earthen base.
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RODENBACH VINTAGE OAK-AGED 2012
Vintage oak-aged Flanders Red Ale (2012 – Barrel #170) flaunts leathery cherry-raspberry tartness at the fore as vinous green grape souring, oaken vanilla tannins, green raisin snips and fungi-like saccharomyces yeast sugaring merge alongside dry sherry licks. At the complex finish, sour cherry abundance gains acidic balsamic vinegaring to contrast less prominent caramelized amber graining.
RODENBACH CARACTERE ROUGE
On tap at End Of Elm, rustic oak-dried sour ale (posing as a lactobacillus-affected Flanders red) tosses macerated cranberry, raspberry and cherry skins at vinous lemon-limed green grape pungency above musty earthen barnyard acridity. Oaken vanilla phenols seep into piquant red-fruited wining, sharp cider subsidy and balsamic vinegaring. Tertiary lingonberry, boysenberry and red currant illusions fortify sharply sour-candied cherry, raspberry and cranberry adjuncts at berry-wined finish.
