Grand Cru Red Ale Rodenbach Brewery

The Grand Cru of the Rodenbach brewery

The Grand Cru is a Belgian-Flemish beer from the Rodenbach brewery, founded in 1821 by the homonymous family from Germany. The brewery is famous for the large number of wooden vats it owns, some 150 years old, in which many of its beers are aged.

How is the Grand Cru produced?

This beer is a blend of two mixed fermentation Flemish Ale beers. It is produced by combining 1/3 of fresh beer and 2/3 of beer aged for two years in oak barrels.

Sight, nose, eye and palate

Ruby red in color, the Grand Cru is a Belgian-Flemish Red Ale with a decidedly fruity and complex profile, with a moderate acidity balanced by fruity notes of sour cherries and green apple and the passage in the barrel responsible for a woody and vanilla profile.

What do you pair the Grand Cru with?

The ideal combination of this beer is with stewed and roasted fatty meats.