Arbor Brasserie Greff Kriek

Brewed by Arbor Brewing Company Pub & Eatery
Style: Fruit Beer
Ann Arbor, Michigan USA

Serve in Flute

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Courtesy of hopdog... appears a murky red with steady streams of CO2 rising to the top of the small, off-white head. Small traces of lacing are left around the glass. Smell is of sweaty socks, raspberries, funky cherries, and caramel. Taste is of the mentioned aromas with more berries, oak, and funkiness coming through in the tart flavors. Mouthfeel is medium bodied, tart, with a dry, mouth puckering finish.

750ml caged and corked bottle labeled bottled on 815 (I’m guesing Aug, 1st 2005 as I bought this at the same time as the Framboise that was bottled in ’05). Poured a medium and cloudy reddish/pinkish color with a smaller sized pinkish off white head. Aromas of cherries, woody, caramel, and trace of cherry pie crust. Aromas on the softer side. Tastes of tart cherries, peppery, woody, and berries. Nice tart, puckering finish.

Poured a murky pink amber color, with a small, off white head that left light lacing on the glass. Aroma of light cherry, cork, light caramel, nuts, and wood. Taste of sour cherries, lacto, light cork, wood, some nutmeg, and a bit of black pepper in the finish.

8/05 bottle. Clear cranberry/apple juice body, not much head. Fresh sweet cherry aroma with some sharp lactic acid and some pie crust sweetness. The flavor has pie cherry, citric acid and some basic malt sweetness. A well-done kriek.

Hazed, ruby-red grapefruit color with tiny bubbles working it out on top. Aroma captivates. Raspberry kernels and tart cherry fruit excretions join with cheese danishes and perfumey mulberry. Sour flavor excretes a cottony, tart cherry motif with a touch of vanilla and almond base traits. The perfume plays out with mulberry and lavender, and rose blossoms drop a few flavor petals as well. A hint of soupy cleanliness gets lined with lilac pollinations. Raspberry kernels arise with a touch of anisette. Sourdough gets smeared with strawberry casings and rye chips. Lime juice hangs on the lips when appropriately licked, and the tart cherry matter hangs onto the end.

reddish pour w/ some tan colors & a pink fluffy head some lacing. Real light aromas some light leathers tart fruits but very mild aroma. Tart palate well coated. Very tart fruits berryies.. mulberry maybe. Some hints of leather some floral notes possibly some lavendar. Pretty good stuff.

Bottle ala SoG. 8/05. A couple different looks to this one. One of the first pours was a slightly hazed pink amber, while a later pour (mine) was a heavily clouded light rust colored liquid. Pinkish off-white diminishing head. Tart nose with cherries and hints of herbal hops. Mild lemon and spices in the background. Tart cherries mixed with apple jacks cereal. A rather interesting combination. Mild attic dust and acid mix in the middle. Rather light and dry in the finish with strawberries and cloves. From looking at other reviews this looks to be a brew that is better fresher.

Bottle via Joel. Vintage 08/2005? The beer pours to a watery tomato juice like body with a white head. The aroma is cherries, funky barnyard. Nice balance of tartness to fruitiness. The flavor has tart cherries, light strawberries, nice balance of tartness and fruit. Quite nice. The palate is tart with a nice mouthfeel.

Curious and sweet aroma is overwhelmed by tomatoes with some underlying notes of flowers, cherries, ginger, cinammon and pepper. Opaque amber-brown body is topped by a low white head that recedes to ring. Full-on cinammon candy flavour is lightly peppery. Very mild acidity. Medium body is very dry with initially strong carbonation that does not last leaving a watery texture. Bottle (Bottled May 2004) sampled with MartinT, Olivier_MTL and Rastacouere.

Explosive bottle presents a very cloudy ruby-pink beer with an initially very large head consisting of big collapsing bubbles, ultimately receding to a well proportioned cover without lacing. Musty mushroom, tomatoes and old cellar nose that doesn’t spell glory through its rather chaotic organization. Enormous cinnamon is in great part responsible for this wreck as it joins the cherry aspects to give it a candy feel despite the beer being generally dry. Full of contradictions, unfortunately, but it might be getting old, having been bought a year ago at the brewery.