 CharlesDarwin (1380), State College, Pennsylvania, USA
May 6, 2008
30.03.2026. SB46. 355mL Bottle. Lightly medicinal cotton and cherries. Plenty of light funk comes through. Some tree bark and peach stems. A drop of sweetness and general fruit. A bit of pie. Pours a beautifully clear vermilion, with a rose-tinted head sparsely cornering the edges of the class. Flavor is rich and deep. Very forward fruit. Canned pie cherries, light black cherry syrup, and pie crust. A heavy, forward cherry flavor. Definitely not sticky or cloying, but it dominates the beer, as it should. The funk that was in the nose has diminishes to carrying some higher alcohols into the nostrils. Nicely sour and dry. Balanced between fruit and cottony lambic character. The flavor are a little restrained for me, and the pie-like cherry flavor masks too much of the lambic for my tastes, but it’s all clean, bright and delightful. Superbly soft.
golubj (990), Redwood City, California, USA
Aug 17, 2008 Bottle. Really nice red pour with some light pink head. Nice sour cherry skin aroma, some sugar, and maybe some oak also. Sweet and sour cherry flavor, with a fizzy sort of harsh palate. A little bit funky in the finish, and the cherry skins flavor lingers a bit. Nice but probably average for the style.
JMFG (1140), Florida, USA
Aug 17, 2008 375 mL bottle. Very nice looking scarlet color with a thin broken greyish-red foam layer. Sweet hay, sour cherry, musk, acetic sourness, mild cat urine aroma. Very pleasant sourness on the beer, aggressive but lets in just enough sweetness. Very acetic but not over the top. A very accessible kriek.
nwilder (36), Denmark
Aug 8, 2008 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.
Dickinsonbeer (2514), Hoboken, New Jersey, USA
Aug 6, 2008 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.
Jerre (1356), Waregem, Belgium
Aug 6, 2008 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.
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