 minch25 (199), Columbus, Ohio, USA
Mar 17, 2008 Updated: Mar 30, 2008
Rerate: much better than first time now that it’s chilled to a decent temperature. deep ruby red, lovely bright pink head. traditional lambic flavor, but not so hardcore sour as some others. refreshing "fruitness" without so much sweetness. And I’m the only one at the tasting that doesn’t hate this. In fact, I love this stuff.
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Original: Got to try this since one of my friends randomly ordered it, and surprise surprise she didn’t like it, so I had to help finish it. Very decent kriek as it turns out, you could do a lot worse.
Tmoney99 (3717), Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Nov 1, 2008 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.
beastiefan2k (1172), Lawrence (formely NYC), Kansas, USA
Oct 19, 2008 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.
garrison (442), Cin. city, Ohio, USA
Oct 19, 2008 From a bottle at a beer tasting at "Ludlow Wines" in Cincinnati, Ohio - This one pours a ruby-red brew with a distinct tart cheery aroma and a foamy pink head. Tastewise, it was very dry and somewhat acidic-sour, but an excellent lambic!
502Flavors (319), Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Oct 18, 2008 12.7 oz. bottle into wine glass ("best by 30/03/2026" on label). Pours a slightly murky dark reddish-pink with a big fluffy pink head that holds but doesn’t really as it recedes. Nice fruity aroma with hints of sour cherries, strawberries, and raspberries with a nice sour, acidic, and oak characters to it - not overly sweet or sour smelling, very well balanced. Nice and tart flavor, but the fruit character isn’t quite what I was hoping for - but dull and muted and not as fresh and naturally fruity as I was expecting. The cherry flavor is a bit like a sour jollyrancher. Nice tartness though with a moderately dry finish and lacking, all around, of any alcohol characteristic. Very active carbonation, a bit high for my taste, but a few swirls of the glass settled it down a bit. Overall: good, but I think I am slowly finding out that I am more into geuzes than krieks and framboises and other lambic-fruits. Still refreshing for a summer afternoon though.
henrikb (1161), Aarhus, Denmark
Sep 27, 2008 2004 bottle - Deep, deep rubin red beautiful body, beautiful pink head that could be a little bigger; Quite sweet nose lots of marzipan pit , over ripe cherry meat; Very lactic and even a little malic sour body thin and biting; Biting sour finish, not to much aroma, the thin sourness is overpowering everything else. This might not the the most sour lambic I have had but because of it very thin texture it seems like it.
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