4.1 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
(Bouteille 2009 7.3%) Arome de cerise et de chêne. Goût, tannin, cerises, lactique. Très bonne bière avec une acidité très prononcée lactique et cerise. Superbe Kriek américain.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
This went very well with a hearty soup with barley and sauage and a salad of beets and olives and nuts. I think salty things stand up well to the intense musty funk and lactic sour. Sour cherries and vinegar dominate. Musty yeast and bacteria ounds it out. Feels very alive. The sourness goes and goes while the yeast tickles the back of my throat. The oak is there. Very pretty color. Cant drink an entire bottle.
3.3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle from gianni. Thanks! Hazy brown with red highlights. Slight cherry, tart, menthol, rubbing alcohol. Not a great aroma, but this is still better than the big sky pile I just poured out. Taste is mildly tart at first, but as this finishes it gets pretty sour. Not picking up any cherry, but it is still good. Light to medium body. Nice.
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
The tart cherry plus the oaky sour acidity were spot on and the most upfront flavors. This beer is very complex even at it’s young age. I also got some almond and vanilla flavors when I look past the blast of cherry. Aroma was well you guessed it cherry first, then vinegar, and snuggled in there some oak. The Lacto and cherries are a match made in beer heaven.
For a sour fan like me, its good and sour. The mouth puckering of the tart cherries and lactic keep you coming back for a sip.
4.2 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 16/20
2009 Bottle. Kriek Ale pours a murky deep reddish color. A huge slightly pink head is poured but quickly dies down to what you see in the picture.
Smell is straight up tart and funky from the beginning. Lactic funk, tart and acidic aroma of cherries. Musty. For anyone not ready for this kind of beer that might be totally put off but for someone like me who loves these kind of beers. It was lovely.
Some sours are really hard to finish. Especially if it’s a 750ml like this one but I found this to be highly drinkable for how nice and sour it was. Starts off with the oak from the barrels mixed in with leather. Then tartness and acidic cherries cut through. Musty barnyard funk lingers on the aftertaste. Like I said it’s nicely sour, maybe one of the more sour beers I’ve ever had but it’s easy to drink.
Mouthfeel is medium bodied and creamy
4.2 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 17/20
Pours a light red wine. Aroma is of a classic very well put together Kriek. Taste follows. A VERY nice Kriek. The perfect amount of sourness to compliment the tartness. Just an amazing Kriek.
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2.9 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
7.1% not 6.6%...Aroma:kriek and light oak aroma....Appearance:Dark red,light beige head..Flavor:kriek and light oak flavor... A prefer belgian kriek than american ....
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle from New Beer split in Manford w Andy and Maggi. First thing I notice is that it pours a lot darker than I would have expected from the aroma. Smells very acidic and like vinegar. Palate is sharp vinegar. Incredibly sour, almost too much even for me. If you took a full mouthfull ... It would be intense. Definitely a sipper. Loses points for not profiling the cherries or other flavors very prominently. Pure vinegar and acid.
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