Boon Oude Kriek

Brewed by Brouwerij F. Boon
Style: Lambic - Fruit
Lembeek, Belgium

It pours a golden red with a slightly pink foam. The aroma is saturated with cherries, almonds, hay, barnyard and a touch of balsamic. Upon tasting, it starts with a dry blast cherries with a small residual sweetness remaining. Vigorous carbonation adding lots of life and kicking up a slight bitterness that grows into a crescendo and softly collapses as one swallows. Lingering, is a dry cherry and almond note, with a fresh grapefruit like tart bitterness.

375 ml bottle. Pours a nice bright violet reddish with a fizzy head- mostly clear body and high carb. Aroma is intensely sour cherry- earthy, cherry pit, a bit pedio like with some earthy leathery musty notes and a ton of acidity. Great intense lactic sourness in here- tons of sour cherry flavor, pedio, bacteria, funky as hell, and just very intense all around ont eh palate with a long lasting intense sour finsih. I keep forgetting how much I love this beer. Gotta find more.

Bottle 37,5 cl RE-tasted on 28.7.’08 at home (bought Vanden Bussche). Hazy dark rd color, with medium pinkisch head. Aroma lambic, berry and cherry character. Full body. Taste sour but not too sour, lambic at cherrys. Good drinkable kriek.

1998 bottle drank July 25, 2008, thanks TimE. Glowing red color. Tart cherries with a musty, sweet aroma. It seems the cherries have died down a bit over the years, but that makes this easier to drink, actually. Sour, cherry, funky, acidic, some wood, as well. Thoroughly enjoyed this one, though I’ll bet it peaked a couple years back.

38cl, brew anno 2004, from De Hopduvel Gent, complex sour brew, hazy, small head, good brew

2004 schima media poco persistente note fruttatr netta marena e leggera nocciola l’acidità è limitata in l’acidità si fa sentire piccola astringenza ma comunque piuttosto morbida leggero legnoso

375mL bottle, courtesy of bwkrieger. Thanks, Brian! Pours a dark cherry / maroon color; light-pink head with decent retention and solid, fine-bubbled lacing. Lots of funk, sour dark cherries, citrus, and jaw-clenching acidity in the aroma; good levels of complexity, horseblanket, and sourness; mouthwatering. Medium-to-full mouthfeel: lively carbonation; lots of clenching sourness and citrus acidity at the front; ripe black cherries, lemons, and a touch of toasted oakiness at the core; nicely composed, well-soured kriek. Lengthy, sour finish: loads of lasting tartness, dark cherries (more of a black cherry character than any other kriek I can think of), and dry citrus.

Courtesy of kmweaver. Hazy maroon body with a medium-sized pink head. Cheesy nose with horseblanket and sour cheeries. The flavor is moderately sour with light to moderate sweetness. Lots of rich cherry and almond taste with salty blue cheese, lemon and yogurt. Medium body is round with sparkling carbonation.