Boon Oude Kriek

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

Serve in Flute, Tumbler

Superb trough-and-trough red; pink "rosé" head, quite stable for the acidity. Nose of cherries,'horseblanket', wet wood, slightly smoked, various organic acids. Taste: extremely tart, very outspoken tannine-rich, and then sour fruit: sour cherries, green apples, and very clearly redcurrant. Mouthfeel gives expected dry-effect, but might have some more body from the fruit - as if there's been too much blending with young lambic. The finish is stil very acidic and red fruit. Drinkability is somewhat more restrained than overall impression. Not for the fainthearted. Pity about the body.

UPDATED: JAN 21, 2012 (2007 Vintage corked bottle 330ml) Woahfucking God the beautiful stench that grafitied itself into the air... Brett, cherry stones with a musty tart accent . : In the goblet it resembles a bleeding cherry and the pink glowing head is cool and tripy :.... Sinking this aged kriek rejuvinates me ...waves of puckering tart cherry dryness amalagmate with subdued sweetness . Every sip is cooler than the last. .

Almost as cheesy as the regular Boon Gueuze, which is over the top. Tart, a fair bit of wood/metallic nature. Unfiltered and quite good. Not as sharp as the Drie Fontainen Kriek, almost as complex, glad it has less woodiness....but overall just a shade 'less', somehow, in the Kriek-off. 1998 bottling.

UPDATED: SEP 21, 2007 Bottle at spontanous weekend. Aroma is straight up grassy fresh lambic funk noteable tart berry character, minimal cherry. Taste is pluckering, not too sour, more tart lambic funk, again slight hints at cherrys. A good drinkable kriek. Rerate: Whole bottle at home. has been settling for a good while now, gloreous dark rd, crystal clear colour, with pink head. Aroma is apple lambic funk, yea ha, amazing notable sweeter cherry hints. Taste is funky and the cherry sneaks up on you in the finish and is so intence id think it was slightly sweetened. But its not and its amazing and i want to sit with my french cheese and bacon and onion bread and go mmmmmmmmmm.

Tasted 2010-06-18. Bottle from 2003. Pours unclear, dark cherry red. Bretty aroma of cherries. Citric. Acidic on the palate. Well balanced. Not too lambic-funky. Very tasty. Has aged very well.

Pours a dark copper/ black cherry color with a very faint pinkish off-white head. This looks authentic and not like a syrupy mess like many other "lambics" seem to. The frothy head has goodretention that eventually fades into lasting cap that leaves minimal streaks of lacing. Earthy oak aroma with beautiful musky horseblanket earthy funk notes with only some slight vinegary tartness. Real dark cherries dominate the aroma instead of the expected syrupy artifical sweetness. I could swear that I could even detect the cherry pits. I held the glass up sniffing it for several minutes salivating before I even took a sip. Lots of earthy oak flavor with nice tannis, wet horseblanket funky tart notes. While it is very tart, it isn’t overly acidic making it very well balanced and easy to drink. Sour/tart dark cherries with a lot of oak and vanilla masking the sweetness. Again I’m very excited about the lack of any artificial syrupy sweetness and the fruit characteristics are quite subtle. Very puckering and extremely refreshing with a perfect dry finish. I want to buy multiple cases of this beer.

2000. Deep red color, pinkish lasting head. Aroma and flavor have cherry (off course) but certainly not a overwhelming sticky cherry sweetness, almonds and pepper. Only a hint of sweetness, problably from the fruit only. Somewhat dusty. Some oaky and almondy bitterness. Complex quality kriek, maybe a bit more refined as Cantillon.

2008 Bottle sampled in early 2011. Great deep red coloured body with a strong hazy dark ruby glow and a thick fast-dying pink head. Simply beautiful. Aroma of pungent cherries, sour grapes, yeast and way more sour flavours - great and mouth-watering! Medium-bodied; Strong effervescence with a great pungent sour flavour at first with grapes and a little yeast behind with a BIG mouthful of sour cherries, light grapes and a good sweetnes for the style. Aftertaste pungent from the sourness with a good cherry sweetness that lasts a long time. Overall, easily one of the best beers I’ve had in Germany, Belgium and Holland this trip - a great beer that should be sampled by everyone! I sampled this 37,5 cL ’split’ bottle purchased from Cracked Kettle in Amsterdam, The Netherlands on 03-January-2011 for €4,65 sampled later in the day from my hotel room in Amsterdam, when I couldn’t find this beer at all in the whole of Bruxelles. Best by date of 21-January-2030!