Chapeau Kriek

Cloudy, browish red-purple with a strawberry merangue topping. Sour cherry pervades the aroma with fruity and woody notes: grape, green apple, earthy beets, medicine. Flavour is very sweet, but not sticky and cloying. Sweet and sour cherry up front that leaves patchy/tingly sweet spots inside my mouth. Cherry gives way to malt characteristics and a sweet, clean finish. Light body and not enough carbonation. So far, I think this is the best kriek I’ve had.

Bottle Feb 99 drank on Jan 05: Red in color with a spare,rocky,white head that diminishes quickly. Aroma is of a heavy musty character with light alcohol and cherries. The palate is light and thin with a soft carbonation. Flavor is lightly sweet, with a moderate acidity and finishes astringent. Amazing that this beer held up for six years even with it’s low alcohol content.

Zythos Beer Festival, Sint-Niklaas, Belgium 2005. Dark red colour with a small pink head. Heavy artificial cherry aroma and taste. Light body and a long sweet finish.

ZBF 2005. Pours cloudy red. Aroma is . . . Absurd. Like candy, bad candy at that. As to taste. Don’t go there. Try the bad candy instead. Aftertaste is unfortunatly long, and gives way to an unpleasant metalic taste

cherry bubble gum aroma, nice. Taste is to lightbodied and watery, ok brew none of the less

Bottle, at beer festival. Red with little head, aroma and flavor of fruit and cherries. Nice.

As with the Mirabelle, I’m surprised at the low ranking. This wasn’t bad. Poured a cherrywood color with a small pinkish head. The nose was decidedly tart cherry. Perhaps thin and watery with lively carbonation. The flavor was sour/tart cherries.

Bottled (BB 10/2005)
Deep and hazy red color with small kriek head. Sweet and sour cherry aroma, which is mixed with other berries and alcohol. Quite sweet, only slightly sour cherry flavor. Watery body makes this fresh and very easy to drink.