Breakwater Berry Kriek

Brewed by Breakwater Brewing Company
Style: Fruit Beer
Oceanside, California USA

Serve in Flute, Shaker

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On tap @ Breakwater. Light golden pink with a small rosy head. Nice aroma of berries, cherry, graham cracker and oak. The flavor is lightly sour with a light malt presence and a dry oaky finish. Light to medium body with average carbonation and a clean, crisp, tart finish. Pretty good beer, tastes like they used extract but not too sweet and lightly sour.

My Bottom Line:
Oddly enough, this fruit beer smells and tastes like a sweetened fruit juice blend, which one doesn’t hope for much when the word “Kriek” is used in the beer’s name...

Further Personal Perceptions:
-A veil of foam covers the orange-hued dark red.
-The finish is mildly tart and dusty.
-The body is rounder than expected from what I thought was going to be a Sour Ale or Fruit Lambic. The carbonation makes this an easy quaff though.
-Cherries and berries galore wind up coming out as cough syrup-like at times, even though they are well dried out in the end.

On tap at the brewpub.

Pours a murky pink with tons of chunky floaties and a bubbly creamy chunky pinkish white head. Aroma of mixed berries, mostly all berry aroma maybe a touch of wheat. Flavor of berries, wheat. Nice and dry.

Color is deep purple and red. White lacing. Aroma of grape juice, flavor has a sour aftertaste, sugary fake berries at first. Thin, but not dirty. I probably would have liked it better if i didn’t have explosive diarrhea. On tap at Breakwater Brewing, Oceanside.

On tap at the brewpub 2/21/10: Pours a transparent dark ruby red with a well-lacing froth of pinkish head. Sweet, rich pure black cherries dominate the nose. Starts with good body and finely dissolved carabonation with some semi-sweet black cherry flavor and a touch of raspberry tartness before a smooth sweet tart finish. A nicely-balanced, flavorful and complex fruit beer.

Clear copper red color/ light pink head. Nice fruity raspberry, marionberry aromas. Rich frothy mouthfeel. Sweet flavor at first turns mildly tart with raspberry, cherry in the finish.

On tap. Pours a clear red with pink head. Raspberries, cherries, light sweet malt, and some sourness. Not to complex, and to sweet ’n’ fruity for my tastes.

From tap at the brewpub. Pours clear and golden red with a small pink head. Aroma is distinct cherry, light butterish note coming through. Butterish cherry flavoured. Tap ran quite a bit before poured. Citric and almondish cherry fruity finish. Light sweetness.

Tap @ Breakwater. Pours a chunky pinkish purple with a bubbly off pink head. Big nose of sweet cherries, raspberries, and cotton candy. Quite sweet on the palate as well, slightly tart. Wish this brew had a little more bite to it, still pretty damn good though.

On tap at Breakwater. Served in a taster glass by the beautiful Christina. Wow. This is an awesome beer. I can see why it won gold at GABF. I don’t understand the low ratings on BA, which may have been a batch botched by an unclean line or something. Probably my favorite beer at Breakwater. Light sweetness. Light sourness. Thicker body. Creamy lasting red/white head. Natural cherry/raspberry aroma. Excellent.