Roodebol
Café-Brouwerij Loterbol

Thanks to Francois for sharing.

A - Poured a nIce hazy berry hue with a thin white head that fades to leave light lacing.

S - Aromas of huge funk, nice berry notes, really solid Belgian Spanish yeast, Really good berries.

T - Taste is similar to the nose, very nice fruit, solid yeasty notes, good fruit,

M - Mouthfeel is located nice, crisp.

O - Overall this was a solid fruited beer, nice funk, pleasant.

Serving Type: bottle

First note, I brought this one to two different tastings, quite a few people remarked about this one lacking in funk, bacterial sourness etc. This is not a sour beer, no lambic or bacteria of any kind was used. This is a fruit beer made with krieken (sour cherries) & shouldn’t really be compared with lambic’s which a lot of people seem to be doing.

Both notes are from 2013.

First bottle 2010 Vintage: 75 cl. sampled. Pours dark raspberry red with a pinkish head. Nose is very full of fruits, more cherry than kriek, light raspberry, almost cloying, very jam-like. Taste is blend of cherries & kriek, less tang than I am used of the kiek (the fruit), light hint of iron (maybe the age), touch thin but very easy to drink, oodles of fruit, somewhat fruit sweety with a jam impression, kriek pits in there, light berries in s pices in the finish. Fine carb. very easy to drink. Could have used a bit more fruit sourness, I feel that the fruit kriek is sourer on its own in general.

Second bottle. Also 2010 Vintage. Also 75 cl. sampled. Total gusher & not bad but not as good as the first time around, bit too metallic & thin, same vintage, keeping previous score for now.

 

75cl bottle with friends @ Diest Bierfest 20th Oct 2012.

Pours a true red colour with a salmon pink thin head on top.

Cherries being the main flavouring within the beer, they obviously lead the way in the aroma and taste: not as sour or powerful as say a Rodenbach Grand Cru but this isn't from Flanders and although not sweet either it comes across as an easy going kriekbier that is well crafted and blended nicely. Based I believe around the Loterbol Blonde, but don't quote me on that.

The only kriek we had at the festival and very pleasant it was too.

 

A - Pours a dark pink, light pink fuzzy head that did not last and left little lacing, mostly clear and a nice hue in the light.

S - a sweet, sour funky combo with an acidic bite at the end of the whiff. The sweet is like candy but not in a bad way or artificial

T - Funk right off the bat leading into acidi taste then a cherry pit nuttiness and ending with a slight sweet adn sour combo. Very nice but honestly could have less of the nutty/bitter flavor and more of the sweet adn sour flavors

M/D - Very drinkable, a bit more carbonated than i like. I figured it would settle down but it never did. Light bodied and a bit thin at times.

Roodebol is an amber red beer with a rich and light pink foam that moderate quickly disappears. A thin foam layer floating on islands on the surface. Beer measuring 6.6 alcohol by volume percent. The flavor we find cherries, cherry pits and a spicy hoppy back. The taste is slightly sweet. The cherries are present but leave the beer Loterbol the identity store. Slight alcohol impression. A somewhat sour mouthfeel comes up and is a strong hoppy bitterness, which, together with an efficient cherry