Brouwerij Rodenbach
Belgium
Sighted at: Eli Cannons - Middletown
CT, multiple locations
in CT
Rodenbach Alexander
For the last time, Alexander is not a lambic
beer! Rodenbach
is one of the last breweries to make classic
Belgian Red Ales.
These beers which have almost disappeared,
are sour brownish-red
ales that are extremely thirst quenching and
stomach-settling.
The Alexander is a combination of the
Rodenbach Red with the addition
of sour cherries to sweeten the beer. It's
almost the Belgian
equivalent of the Berliner Weisse - a sour
wheat beer that is
taken with a shot of woodruff or raspberry
syrup to make it more
palatable.
After pouring the Alexander, I could smell
the malolactic sourness
from a full foot away. Watching it from afar, I
breathed in the
intoxicating aroma while observing it for color
and effervescence.
The beer is a deep ruby-brown that has
supports no head and only
minimal bubbles.
I allowed the beer to warm to somewhere
closer to 55 degrees
and sampled the beer - it was sour... first sour
from the yeast
and then sour from the cherries and then it
mellowed into a nice
warm, round taste in my mouth.
This is a fantastic beer, one of the last of
its kind... so
if you see it, try it while you still can.
(Avery Glasser)
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