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'''Flanders Red AleBrown Beer''', or traditionally "Flemish Red Brown Beer" (Belgian producers are seeking protection for this term, see [[Flanders_Red_Ale#Protection_Seeking|Protection Seeking]] below), is a classic Belgian beer style that is produced only by a small handful of breweries in West Flanders, Belgium today. Some American breweries outside of Flanders and Belgium aim to produce comparable beers <ref name="snauwaert">[http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168160515301896 Microbial diversity and metabolite composition of Belgian red-brown acidic ales. Isabel Snauwaert, Sanne P. Roels, Filip Van Nieuwerburg, Anita Van Landschoot, Luc De Vuyst, Peter Vandamme. 2015.]</ref>. These beers, red to brown in color, are characterized as being sour and sometimes sweet, with malt flavors and fruity complexity from the mixed fermentation and sometimes hints of oak. They have often been described as "wine-like". Non-Belgian beer writers, beginning with Michael Jackson, have split these beers into two categories, "Flanders Red Ale" and have previously "[[Oud Bruin]]" The distinction between these two has arguably been distinguished from their close cousinthat "Flanders Red Ales" are generally brewed in West Flanders and are aged in oak, the while "[[Oud Bruin]], " is generally aged in steel fermenters and brewed in East Flanders(Belgian brewers make no such distinctions). Rodenbach is , Brewery Verhaeghe, Liefmans, and De Brabandere are some of the most well known Flanders red producer producers <ref>[http://www.beerhunter.com/documents/19133-000217.html "Belgium's Great Beers". The Beer Hunter, Michael Jackson. 1999. Retrieved 01/27/2016.]</ref>. Classic Belgian examples of Flemish red have been flash pasteurized or sterile filtered and are not alive in the bottle<ref>[http://www.thebrewingnetwork.com/the-sour-hour-episode-9/ Rudy Ghequire from Rodenbach on the Sour Hour]</ref> (~35 minutes in) (also ref Mad Fermentationist dregs list). Belgian brewers are seeking to protect the term "Flemish Red Brown Beer"; see [[Flanders_Red_Brown_Beer#Protection_Seeking]] below.