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Taste of the Month
It executing my spring cleaning, I came across a most wonderful and unexpected cellar find: a three-year-old bottle of Rodenbach Alexander! As anyone familiar with this tart cherry beer will know, the addition of the fruit essence mellows the sourness of the Grand Cru, from which it originates, and makes for an almost sweetish, supremely sippable quaff. Now add a few years to that equation, and you have the makings of a minor classic.
Having not allowed the beer enough cellar time for the cherry flavour to dry out of it, the three-year-old I poured in my glass was still quite fruity and full. What had occurred over those three years, however, was a significant reduction in the sour quality synonymous with the Rodenbach label, so that the beer I enjoyed was only about half as tart as it had once been. As such, I would not say that it was necessarily better that it had been at the time of release -- I like that sour quality! -- just that it was different, and still thoroughly appealing.
Proof, perhaps, that spring cleaning brings its own rewards.
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