Duchesse Cherry
Verhaeghe in Vichte, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Flemish Red / Bruin Regular|
Score
7.27
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Unlike the more famous Kriek beers, the basic beer of the "Duchess Cherry" is not a Lambic. but a Flanders red ale of mixed fermentation. This beer has a top fermented base and is then matured in oak casks where it undergoes a second wild fermentation. The tannins in the foeders (very large barrel used for the storage of great Bordeaux wines) give the Duchess Cherry its sweet, fruity, refreshing and bittersweet taste.
Once the base beer is ready, the master brewer adds 20 Kg of "Kriek Gorsem" (Belgian sour cherries) per 100 liters to the beer. For 6 months, the beer macerates with the cherries. The cherries give a fresh and fruity taste to the beer which has a sweet and sour base. After 24 months of process, the beer is ready to be filtered and racked .
Marko (16006) reviewed Duchesse Cherry from Verhaeghe 10 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottled, thanks Mowbeer for sharing! Ruby red body, off-white head. Sour, acidic, cherry aroma. Cherry aceto. Sweet, funky taste, cherry, light glue, some bretty toothrot, light, pleasantly sweet and sour. Prefer the choco cherry version but this is very good too.
oh6gdx (43583) reviewed Duchesse Cherry from Verhaeghe 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottled (from Alko Web). Deep murky ruby colour with a mediumsized pink head. Aroma is raspberries, some tartness and mild fruity tones. Flavour is raspberries, fruity, some toffee and raspberry jam.
omhper (39870) reviewed Duchesse Cherry from Verhaeghe 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8
--Sample, thanks oh6gdx! -- Clear burgundy colour, small head. Oaky, balsamic chery aroma. Tart with medium body and rounded mouthfeel. Concentrated vinegary balsamic cherry, vinous oak. Complex and balanced. Excellent!
Bierridder (3691) ticked Duchesse Cherry from Verhaeghe 2 years ago
BlackHaddock (14760) reviewed Duchesse Cherry from Verhaeghe 2 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
25th October 2021. Shrewsbury Beer Share in Chez Sophie; 5 guys splitting beers and talking bollox, great fun. Cheers Mike for this 33cl bottle: BB 1st June 2023. Red bodied, white head. Cherry's (surprise, surprise) rule the roost here, sour and tart from start to finish. Yet with a hidden sweetness if you sip slowly enough.
Hrabren Dobrotić (5220) reviewed Duchesse Cherry from Verhaeghe 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
0.33 l bottle at the Valhalla Craft Beer Bar, Zagreb. Clear darker ruby red, small head. Quite funky and acidic at first, a touch of cherry, yeah, but there might have been a hint of that without adding the fruit itself. Juicy, ripe cherry, high carbonation, moderate to high sourness. Moderate finish. Some sweetness. Sour cherry candy juice feeling to it.
Drebus (8701) ticked Duchesse Cherry from Verhaeghe 2 years ago
De gewone is beter. Beetje munt, zuur, fruitig, kersen.
Tom (2179) ticked Duchesse Cherry from Verhaeghe 3 years ago
nathanvc (5907) reviewed Duchesse Cherry from Verhaeghe 3 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
4 July 2020. At Heeren van Liedekercke. Cheers to Pieter's birthday! Hazy red with a huge, lasting, foamy, pink head. Aroma of sour cherry, cherry jam, vinegar, balsamico, lemon acid, vague nail polish. Taste has sweet-sour cherry, raspberry, red fruit jam, fluffy doughy malty feel, acidic vinegar building into the quite tart, acidic, lemony, yet fruity finish. Medium body, oily texture, fizzy carbonation. Love this!
blackisle (5227) reviewed Duchesse Cherry from Verhaeghe 4 years ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Beautiful, clear deep ruby red colour, good frothy pink head, dissipates slowly leaving almost no lacing. Almost vinous aroma, cherries, wood, vanilla, syrup. Rather sharpish onset, followed by a fruity medium sweet and sour taste, cherries, woody, vanilla, becomes more en more sweet pushing back the sourness. Medium body, sticky texture, average carbonation, sweet with underlying sourness aftertaste, sticky, sourness comes back in the finish. Complex, refreshing, very pleasant, very good.