Cantillon Kriek

Brewed by Cantillon
Style: Lambic - Fruit
Brussels, Belgium

Serve in Flute, Tumbler

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Nice fruit lambic that my unrefined palate couldnt get a full appreciation of. Very tart and vinegorous with a rich cherry background. The finish is lip puckeringly tart and a decent amount of funk going on. Good.

On-Tap, 1/3 of a pint at Brewdog Glasgow (£3.30):
Very sour on the nose with a light cherry aroma but also some raspberries. Other than the incredibly sour and tart like aroma this one is pretty clean on the nose with a tiny amount of acidity.
Pinkish strawberry colour with a thumb sized, bubbly head that is a pink shade of white and fades to a thin lacing around the edges.
Light cherry taste to begin with that is overridden by the incredibly sour taste and a lot of acidity. There is some yeast and tart like flavours too but to be honest the sourness is so intense it masks most of the rest of the taste.
A smooth texture to this one with a light to medium body and an incredibly sour and slightly dry feel with mild carbonation.

I felt the taste was too sour to fully enjoy and it made it a lot harder to detect the subtle flavours of this beer.

1001 Beers Blog:

Keg @ BrewDog Glasgow. Sour cherry aroma. Dark pink colour. Strange Chinese barbecue spare rib flavour. Sour aftertaste. Unusual. Drinkable.

Birra a cui abituarsi gradatamente...al naso cherry, acidità e sentore alcoolico....al palato sicuramente acidità, asprezza, limone, che lascia spazio ancora alla ciliegia sotto spirito.

Bottle 750ml. Pours rose/red with rose/white head. Aroma is sour, barnyard, cherries. Taste sour, wild, cheeries, funk. Overall: More accessible than 3 Fonteinen stuff, maybe less sour. Very good, but could use more complexity.

Bottle 750 ml [2011] 100% bio. Appearance: Beautiful beer. Pours red with a small pink reddish head. Aroma: Cherries, tartness and barnyard. Taste: Nice acidic taste in the beginning and a dry finish on the palate. Overall: Nice beer, but would be better with a little more complexity.

Gedronken in Brussel bij moeder Lambic, kleur is rood/paars/rosé, niet helder, weinig koolzuur, kreeg het in een wijnglas, smaakt zoet/zuur

750ml bottle, labelled 100% Kriek Lambic Bio, bottled September 23, 2009. Cloudy red with a very thin, almost non existant tan head. Tart cherries with an underlying funk. Medium to light body, moderate carbonation, sour but not overwhelming with a nice tartness, lots of cherry, becomes dry on the palate with more cherry and a nice tartness to the end. Very good but lacks some depth.

Bottled in 2007: I wasn’t expecting how viscous this beer is. Unbelieveable. Pours hazy ruby red, as if it it is pulped raspberries. Almost no head but definite signs of carbonation. First and foremost aromas of sour cherries. Almost slightly acid nose.CHRIST THAT"S SOUR! Tamarillo sour, Montmorency sour cherries and mouth torturing. There’s a huge dollop of sour acidity. Amongst the wish that I’d left this for a few more years (well... it was five years old), there’s the flush of gratification that I’m drinking something from the far end of the continuum. On that basis I give this beer marks for satisfaction.

Prima di assaggiarla dimenticate che state bevendo birra. Dimenticate anche la definizione di birra. Abituatevi anche all’ odore non certo gradevole. E tipo sudore di cane con una presenza (va e viene) di un pò di profumo di ciliegia. Fatto ciò assagiatela. Dire che acida è poco. All’nizio da l’impressione di bere aceto, poi viene il sapore di ciliegia che predomina un pò ovunque. Agrodolce. Quel colore rosso della birra poi è stupendo. Se non svenite per l’odore tornate al secondo sorso. Piano piano vi abituerete e vi accorgerete che la "birra" è fantastica. Non è per tutti ovviamente.