Rodenbach Fruitage
Rodenbach is best known as the maker of one of Belgium’s classic sour beer styles: The Flemish Red. The style originates from techniques the Rodenbach family learned from English Porter […]
Category Archives: Flemish Reds/Browns
Pfriem Oud Bruin
pFriem’s latest barrel-aged beer is an homage to Belgium’s East Flanders Oud Bruin style. This is part of their white label barrel-aged series. Oud Bruins, like Flemish Reds, involved mixed […]
Petrus Sour Framboise
Petrus, brewed by Brouwerij De Brabandere, is a line of traditional Belgian beers. In the US, they’re probably most well known for their Petrus Aged Pale. De Brabandere is a […]
Petrus Sour Quad
Petrus, made by Brouwerij De Brabandere, is most famous for its Aged Pale Ale. Aged Pale Ale started its life as the blending beer for the brewery’s Oud Bruin. Unlike […]
Rodenbach Vintage 2013
Rodenbach is the famous West Flemish producer of red/brown beers renowned for their sweet/tart flavor. To obtain this unique profile, this style of beer is made from a blend of […]
Verzet Oud Bruin 2013
Brouwers Verzet formed out of three friends who’d graduated from Ghent’s prestigious brewing school in 2008. They all marched off to their various brewing jobs but realized they missed experimenting […]
Strubbe Ichtegem’s Grand Cru
Ichtegem’s Grand Cru is one of the newer beers in venerable Brouwerij Strubbe‘s lineup. Introduced in 2006, Ichtegem’s Grand Cru represents the long evolution of Strubbe’s Oud Bruin series. Through […]
Van Honsebrouck Bacchus
The Van Honsebrouck family has been brewing in West Flanders since 1811 and in Inglemunster, their current home, since 1900. Today, the brewery is run by the 5th generation of […]
Rodenbach Vintage 2012
Brouwerij Rodenbach‘s release of their Vintage beer is always one of the releases I anticipate most. The 2012 version was released this year in the United States and will be […]
Omer Vander Ghinste Cuvée des Jacobins
Recently, the folks at Bockor changed the name of the brewery to Omer Vander Ghinste, a name harkening back to the founding of the brewery. While the brewery changed names, […]
De Ranke Cuvée De Ranke
Brouwerij De Ranke continues to put out creative and interesting beers that represent the best mix of Belgian tradition and craft beer innovation. Cuvée De Ranke fits that bill. It uses […]
De Struise Brouwers Ypres 2009
Ypres is another experimental beer marked with De Struise Brouwers characteristic bold house style. Ypres is their interpretation of a Flemish Oud Bruin, or sour brown ale. Like other beers of this […]
Liefmans Goudenband
Liefmans Goudenband is a classic Flemish Brown or Oud Bruin representing the special version of the brewery’s everyday Oud Bruin. Liefmans can trace its history as a brewery back as […]
Rodenbach Caractère Rouge
Rodenbach Caractère Rouge is a newer project from the venerable old Flemish Red producer. Created in collaboration with Antwerp Chef Viki Geunes of ‘t Zilte, the restaurant at the top […]
Rodenbach Vintage 2011
The 2011 version of the Rodenbach Vintage just landed on the west coast, just in time for a last minute Christmas gift option for the beer lover in your life! […]
Wonderful Wanderings: Belgian Beer Collaboration – Rodenbach
In the 3rd piece in my series on Belgian Beer for the Wonderful Wanderings travel site, I briefly discuss the history of Rodenbach and its beers along with a couple […]
The Foeders of Roeselare: A Visit with the Wooden Behemoths of Rodenbach
The Foeders of Roeselare: A Visit with the Wooden Behemoths of Rodenbach. Here’s one from the I think about beer archives! This is a recap of my trip to Rodenbach […]
Deschutes Brewery Green Monster
Deschutes Brewery‘s Green Monster is a new sour release from the brewery who’s most famous sour, The Dissident, has long been a highly sought after item amongst fans of wild […]
Green Flash Flanders Drive
Green Flash Brewing’s Flanders Drive is a Flemish-style sour Red Ale that was released for the brewery’s 10th anniversary in 2012. Chuck Silva, brewmaster, toyed with the idea of creating […]
Petrus Oud Bruin
The Petrus line of beers was created by the De Brabandere Brouwerij (Formerly Bavik Brewery) in the mid-1980’s to celebrate their 100 year anniversary in 1984. To this day, De Brabandere […]
Deschutes Brewery The Dissident 2012
Deschutes Brewery releases The Dissident approximately every other year, or as they say: “When the beer tells us it’s ready.” This is the only “sour” beer that Deschutes brews, which is […]
Rodenbach Vintage 2010
Rodenbach Vintage 2010 just hit the west coast of the United States this month. If you’re not familiar with this expression of the Rodenbach line, it’s a unblended batch of […]
Russian River Brewing Consecration (Batch 008)
Russian River Brewing is probably one of the hottest names in the American craft brewing scene. Vinnie Cilurzo has reached the status of a cult personality mainly because of his […]
Samuel Adams Stony Brook Red
Here at ithinkaboutbeer.com, I’m a particularly big fan of “sour” beers. So I thought I’d start the year with a series of reviews on sour beers from the United States […]
Roeselare: A Short Walking Tour
No trip to a brewery is complete without a visit to the city it calls home. After my visit to Rodenbach (You can read about my tour of Rodenbach at: […]
The Foeders of Roeselare: A Visit with the Wooden Behemoths of Rodenbach
My last official brewery trip of my Belgium vacation was to Brouwerij Rodenbach in the lovely town of Roeselare which is situated in the province of West-Vlaanderen. Since my first taste […]
New Belgium Brewing’s Sour Symposium
I was fortunate enough to be able to attend New Belgium Brewing‘s Sour Symposium during PDX Beer Week. This event featured several great beer dinners, barrel aging seminars, and the […]
