Boon Oude Kriek

Vintage 2000. Rubin red with no head. Sour vinegear aroma and flavour. Acid and dry with some woody notes.

A much better beer than the regular kriek. Sour and musty, more like a traditional gueuze. Not much sweetness here, just flavor.

Bottle, SB 46 on cork. The best by date has faded. Pours a clear ruby color with a nice pink head that quickly falls off to a thin pink foam ring around the top of the beer. Huge funky sour cherry aroma. Flavor is sour, dry, candied cherry with a subtle funky earthiness. Finish is tart cherry and some sour apple at the very end. Very nice and refreshing.

Bottle, pours a pinkish red, very lively carbonation and a bit of head left after the beer settled (1 min). Smells of vinegar and fruit. Both tangy and tart, flavors of cherry, rose petals, hints of metal, barnyard funk. With each sip, this lambic felt alive on the tongue. Great beer.

Bottle, pours a cherry color white/pink head. Aroma: wild yeast, dry wheat and sour notes that make a lovely aroma. Nice beer, mostly sour flavor with notes of apple, and cherries. Beer like these are so thirst quenching and sometimes hit the spot. Very complex beer.

A murky red pour with red stained white head. Massive barnyard funk on the aroma with a nice cherry flavor. The body wasn’t nearly as funkified as I’d hoped by the aroma - more a of a smooth tart cherry without the sourness and funk the nose promised. Delicately smooth.

Bottle from Crown #19, Indy. Poured clear reddish color with an average frothy reddish head that was mostly lasting with good lacing. Moderate complex sour cherry aroma. Medium body with a sticky texture and soft carbonation. Medium sour cherry flavor with a medium sour finish of moderate duration. Sour refreshing brew.

2002 bottle shared by Indra. As usual a beautiful red pour. I was very interested to see how this was aging. Aroma was very spritz-y from the strong carbonation with a good amount of aged cobwebs coming through, which is great to see, and of course cherry (which is actually turning a bit syrupy from the age). Its a weird counterbalance, the strong carbonation with the aged cobwebs and fruit juice cherry that’s only now starting to turn. Taste however not aging as well as I hoped. Full of the fruit juice cherry and not so much of the lambic. Its lightly sour but none of that complex brettiness that I would look for in an aged lambic. The strong carbonation does not help, carries away a lot of the flavor and just brings out the cherry and that’s all. Its not that there are signs of age, just no further complexity coming through in the flavor. Not a bad beer, and I am happy Eric shared it but at this point I feel I would not want to age this beer long term.