Pours a crystal clear ruby red with a long-staying beige head. Cream soda, musk and sour sweets on the nose. Very sweet with a thin-to-medium bodied oily texture. Sweet woody sugar notes come out first with liquorice and aniseed followed by fruity esters; cherries and blueberries. A moderate sour note lurks in the background throughout. In the finish a slight alcohol warmth presents itself and the sweet vanilla ice cream and milky character (probably vanillins and lactones from the oak lagering) leaves a lasting impression. Being a Flemish Brown Ale (or Oud Bruin) Vichtenaar is creamier and has a more clement sourness than its sister beer Duchesse de Bourgogne (
review #8), a Flemish Red Ale.
Vichtenaar undergoes 2 bouts of fermentation, first in the fermentation vat and secondly in a conditioning vessel after racking. It then undergoes a tertiary fermentation in tall oak barrels for a whopping 8 months. These vessels vary in capacity between 5000L to 25,000L. More information on Oud Bruins can be found in review
#9 and
#46.
- MALTS: ?
- HOPS: NOBLE
- IBU: low
- ABV: 5.1%
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