Name: Classic (Red)
Brand: Rodenbach
Rating: 6.9 (5 reviews)

Rodenbach: Classic (Red)

This Flanders-style red ale is/was brewed by Rodenbach in Roeselare, West Flanders, Belgium. It's achieved an overall score of 68.97%. Based on 5 tastings, the average ABV is 5.04%.

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No#55. Aroma is sweet and sour, with some intresting woody flavours kicking about. Flavour has light cheeryness to it with the same sweet and sourness as the aroma, refreshing with a dry finish, excellent common place beer.

Draught at Tylers in Durham, NC. Clear ruby color with thin head that laced the glass. Sour, with cherry, oak, and apple cider undertones. Thin bodied, didnt do much for my palate.

(draft) Crystal clear dark red body with off-white head. Aroma is medium sweet, sour cherry. Taste is medium sweet, cherry, sour, some oak. Watery light body, quite refreshing.

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Beer Listing

Date and Time	Container	Pub/Place and Where	Strength ABV	Colour	Score Components	Score	Descriptive word(s)	Book No.
26th Apr 2001 at 5:40 pm	bottle	La Rose Blanche, Brussels, Brussels Captial Region, Belgium	5.00	dark golden	Taste: 94.12% Head: 66.67% Aroma: 80% Ease: 44.44% Clarity: 100%	66.687%	burnt	1
29th Sep 2002 at 4:00 pm	bottle	Le Galion, Charleroi, Belgium	5.00	dark golden	Taste: 82.35% Head: 66.67% Aroma: 80% Ease: 66.67% Clarity: 100%	62.464%	dark	33
17th May 2003 at 5:55 pm	bottle	(room 424 in Monaco hotel), Antwerp, Belgium	5.00	dark	Taste: 94.12% Head: 66.67% Aroma: 80% Ease: 66.67% Clarity: 100%	71.883%	fruity	53
13th Feb 2004 at 11:30 am	bottle	(our room in the Torenzicht pub hotel), Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands	5.00	dark golden	Taste: 94.12% Head: 88.89% Aroma: 80% Ease: 66.67% Clarity: 100%	71.730%	sour	88
8th Dec 2019 at 9:25 pm	bottle	(home), Liverpool, Merseyside, England	5.20	dark red	Taste: 100% Head: 73.33% Aroma: 100% Ease: 88.89% Clarity: 100%	72.105%	cherry-juice	822

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Other Beers (etc.) by Rodenbach

Apart from Classic (Red), Hop Horizons lists 4 others by Rodenbach. These are:
Alexander
Fruitage (2025)
Grand Cru
Redbach

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