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Palm Brewery
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Palm Brewery, Rodenbach Classic (Belgium) 
A very singular style of beer that is flooded with sweet and sour flavours, partly brought about by wild yeast fermentation, and partly by a percentage of the beer being matured in wooden casks for two years before blending with younger beer and bottling. It pours a really deep red/nut brown colour with a fawn-coloured head. The nose is sour and filled with underripe cherries and Cox's Pippin, wintery apple notes. There's a suggestion of cream or chocolate and a herbal note too in a very complex profile. On the palate this tangy, quite light-bodied beer is flooded with sour, lemony fruit and more of that cherry flavour. There's all sorts of non-fruit and non-malt stuff going on, though I detect just a hint of hollowness on the mid-palate. It finishes with tangy, lively, sour flavours. Terrific stuff, though I wonder if the Grand Cru version might fill that slight hole in the flavour profile? I also suspect this will really split drinkers into love it and hate it camps. 5.0% ABV, 25cl, �0.99, Beersofeurope, Beerritz.  |  |
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