Cantillon Kriek

Brewed by Cantillon
Style: Lambic - Fruit
Brussels, Belgium

Serve in Flute, Tumbler

Bottle 0,75 l. Juicy red, not quite natural looking, quicky head. Aroma is quite funky, sour, hayish, barnyard, earthy, yeasty, home made wine and some faint cherries maybe. Flavor is soury, yet sweet with a huge earthy touch to it. Cherries are really subtle and there’s no Dr. Pepper. Quite appealing, not even closely as sour as I thought it could be. Easy to drink, sharing qualities with bubbly rose wines and home made wines.

Tap at Mikkeller Bar. Clear light pink beer with a white short-living bubbly head. Fresh, funky flavor with lots of sour cherries, tart lemons, oak and barntard. Bone dry in the mouth, lively carbonation, quenching indeed.

Smell up front is pure funky. Sour tart cherries, barnyard funk, and oak. If you would give this beer to someone who knows nothing about lambics they would probably give this beer back to you and tell you it was bad. It’s pure funkiness. This beer isn’t to horribly sour right from the start but you couldn’t tell my girlfriend that. She thought she loved lambics until she tried this. “It’s too sour!” and she pushes it back into my hand. For me it wasn’t to sour up front but as you drink this it gets really hard to keep on going. The sourness does really start to add up here and it was a really hard beer to finish. Especially the whole bottle. But even though it was hard to finish, that doesn’t mean it wasn’t tasty because it was great. Sour cherries, tart lemon, funk, and oak. All adds to a great mouth puckering event. Dry, medium bodied, and well carbonated.

Bottle shared at a recent BA/RB tasting... Poured cloudy, murky, pinkish red with a grayish, off-white head. Nose had cherries, yeast, brett funk. Dark cherry flavors, cherry skins, tart with yeast spices and funk. A little bit of candied malt that worked with the puckering sourness here.

I like. Nice sour cherry aroma. Thik pink foam. Refreshing and soft carbonated palate. Taste is really nice, sourness with cherry stones and almondy saltiness. I like it ;)

750ml Bottle. Pours bright red - Like maraschino cherry syrup, with an extremely pale pink head of tight bubbles that lasts. Smell is a huge amount of morello cherry, vinegar, and moderate funkiness… more of a kalamata olive funk than cheesy dankness. But the dominant aroma is sour cherry. Wow, yup it follows straight through in the taste. It tastes so much like a sour cherry that it almost has the fleshiness of one. Some vinegar and lemon tartness, though the tartness isn’t overwhelming. The body is medium, pushing the boundary towards full, and though it dries the palate, it’s not mouth puckering or anything. The sourness definitely dominates, but allows for the other flavours to emerge as it goes. Finish is tart. Good stuff. But damn, compared to Iris… I dunno….

Lots of small bubbles in this pink, clear body. Passion fruit, cherry candy, dried yeast and some funk. Smoother than expected body, revealing some sweetness at first and an interesting, tasty sour fruitiness later on, which sticks to the tongue and challenges. Mind you it’s not overwhelming, but rather a journey into flavours from fruity sweets to sour sharpness and into a bedwelming balance that characterizes Cantillion while reaching an epiphany without extremes in this. Keeps you grasping for more and sticks with you. Maybe not the most refined, and a bit sweet, but an absolute have to try. (375ml bottle, dated 2008, 5,00 EUR)

The nose has a strong funk straight from the bottle. Once it opens up it has nuances of cherry skin and or red fruit skins. The flavor is very sharp cherries and cherry skins, like when you can’t wait for them to ripen in the sun. This a subtle sweetness at first but quickly vanishes to a sharp tartness. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

may 2010 bottle. 750ml. ruby red body with small white head. aroma of massive funk, cherry pit/skin, wet socks, currants, and a ridiculous amount of tartness. flavor of cherry juice..tart and dry, this is absolutely puckering but very drinkable and good. a touch of sweetness is there in the front end of the sip, but gives way to sour madness. some sulfuric notes in the finish