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Chapeau Kriek

Percentile
23
overall
Brewed by Brouwerij De Troch
Style: Lambic - Fruit

Ternat-Wambeek, Belgium

bottled
common

on tap
unknown

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RatingsAverageScoreABVStyle PctlServe in
2092.73/5.02.73/5.03.5%15.2Flute, Tumbler
Commercial Description:
Disclaimer: This is the sweetened version of Chapeau Kriek. In 2007 a new version was released, which can come with the same label as Chapeau Kriek, but which is a different beer. This new version is in the database as Chapeau Oude Kriek and it is not sweet. If you had a sweet beer, then you should rate this one. Otherwise, you should rate the Chapeau Oude Kriek.

Description: Since many decades, the brewers of the Senne valley are brewing Lambic. In the 19th century they have created several fruit beers. The cherry beer on base of Lambic was the first or one of the first. The Chapeau Kriek is made on base of Lambic, a artisanal traditional product which ripe on oaken barrels. The Chapeau Kriek is a fresh and delicious beer for delightful moments.
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 HogTownHarry (3993), Toronto (Harbourfront), Ontario, Canada
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/56/103/512/20
Jun 28, 2008  
Bottle (330ml). Deep, wine-like purple-red pour with a smallish pink head - 4/5 for the lush, deep colour. Rich cherry aroma - mingled sour and sweet, a little syrupy and messy, but what the hell. The taste is similar, a bit like a sour cherry cough drop, but for some reason this one appeals to me - thick, syrupy, modestly carbonated, with a long cherry finish - decent for Chapeau


 yarry (370), Waterdown, Ontario, Canada
2.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/57/104/510/20
Jun 21, 2008  
25cl bottle, 3.5% a/v Pours like a deep red koolaid, with a half decent cherry red head on it. It also smells like koolaid almost but with the lambic bitter/lactic acid smell. It tastes like the sweet cherry expected but has a lip puckering tartness to it. A pretty good lambic from chapeau but watch for the tartness!!


 Cartoonkhaki (1150), Brantford, Ontario, Canada
2.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/102/55/102/510/20
Jun 17, 2008  
Ruby red liquid with pinkish thin head, if this wasn’t pink it would look crappy. Actually it still looks bad. Aroma of musty cherry cough syrup and acidic lambic. Flavour is sweet cherry with ample sour tartness of a lambic. This just doesn’t do so well but is kind of okay, I think.


 Boutip (2348), Gatineau, Quebec, Canada
2.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/56/102/510/20
Jun 17, 2008  
Bottle: Poured a deep red color lambic with huge foamy pink color head with some good retention and some lacing. Aroma of sweet cherry syrup is totally dominating with no traces of sourness that I would usually associate with a lambic. Taste is also dominated by sweet cherry syrup which is not bad per se but overall this does not taste like traditional lambic but more like a cheap alcohol-pop. Pretty refreshing for what it is but not something I would have very often.


 robinvboyer (1428), Sturgeon Falls, Ontario, Canada
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/514/20
Jun 16, 2008  
Anothersocaled lambic from Chapeau. Deep red pour, very small pink head. Aroma is all cherries, its alsmot artificial, like cough syrup, with a slight tiny touch of lambic funk. The flavour is surprsingly decent. I was expecting a super sweet, cloying cherry mess, like most of the other chapeau beers ive had, but wow, this isnt bad. A nice cherry flavour that isnt sloying, or too artificial, and its actually a little sour too, its leaving a nice sourness in the back of my throat, this is actually enjoyable!


 GregClow (2495), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/54/102/59/20
Jun 15, 2008  
Bottle from the LCBO. Ruby-red colour with a small pink head. Aroma and flavour of cherry cough drops, with an odd hint of cotton candy coming through in the flavour as well. Didn’t mind the first few sips, but it got cloying and icky pretty quickly.


 pootzboy (1045), Hawgville, Ontario, Canada
2.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/54/102/510/20
Jun 9, 2008    Updated: Oct 20, 2008
Ruby-brown in the glass, smallish cap some lace. Aroma is a decent bouquet of cherry and mustines with grainy malts but a tad too much sweetness...like cherry jello made with beer. Some tartness in the taste, some lambic mustiness but mostly cloying cherry sweetness, Chapeau is not my idea of a drinkable fruit lambic...too shallow and sweet.


 Radek Kliber (3942), Toronto (Can) Krotoszyn (Pol), Ontario, Canada
2.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/55/103/511/20
Jun 7, 2008  
Bottle 250 ml
Appearance: Pinkish hued large top with murky hazed ruby.3+
Nose Strong cherry aroma, bark with light sweet brown wood character, sugar sticky end.6+
Flavor/Palate : Carbonated tart zesty front with super sweet molasses dipped cherry. Sweet and sour ? In scorching heat it might work. I am missing cellar like musky character of some top lambics.



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