CooperSmiths Belgian Style Kriek Ale

Brewed by CooperSmiths Pub & Brewing
Style: Sour Ale/Wild Ale
Fort Collins, Colorado USA

Serve in Snifter, Tulip, Tumbler

send corrections   |   shelftag   |   edit barcodes   |   add pic

On tap @ the brewpub, served in a snifter. Clear copper with a one finger off-white head, fading to a thick ring and little island of foam. Lots going on in the aroma--red wine, oak, sour cherries and skins, light lemon, light leather, and faint wheat. The flavor adds more cherry skins and juice, and tones back a bit on the red wine character. The finish is all wheat after the acidity peaked @ a 6. Medium body with light prickly carbonation. A very pleasant surprise.

on tap-pours pinkish gold with a pinkish white head. Aroma is sour cherry, some malt. Taste is sour/tart cherry, 2nd light/medium malt.

On tap at the brewpub. Pours with an off-white head over a hazed red-orange hued body. Aromas are of cherry, funk, red wine, almonds, juicy, currants, acid and raisiny. Flavors are acidic, juicy, fruity, pie cherries, currants. Some crackery malt, acidic, red wine. Dry, lively bubbles, juicy with puckering acidity. Very pleasant to drink!

UPDATED: OCT 11, 2011 On tap at the brewery. Cherry brown pour. looks very still and clear. Balsamic aromas mixed with fruit and nutty caramel. Great level of sour. Puckering but not overpowering. Balsamic vinegar wrapped up in bright fruit and some kind of bread or maybe pie crust (cherry pie) followed by very light wood. Complex and smooth. Medium body creamy underneath all the sour. Yum!

(Draught at CooperSmith) clear red, soapy white bubbles. Nose of sweet sugary cherry, cherry pie, and lightly funky. Taste of tart cherry, real cherry, pucker, plum, currant, light tobacco, cherry skins. Very smooth, soft carbonation, not acidic at all. Just delicious. Could have drank this all day.

Tap @ brewery. Amber red appearance with a small white head. Sour cherry nose. Quite sour and tart cherry lambic flavor. Particularly sour cherries which inclines me to think that it’s made from Poudre Canyon cherries. Sour cherry finish. Pretty good but not elite.

(draft, sampled 3/3/10). Light cloudy ruby color. Spare off white head. Tart/sour aroma. Moderate tart/sour flavor, with light sweet cherry. Long duration. Moderate tart/sour finish. Slick texture. Soft carbonation. Spare lacing.

Pours a brilliantly clear deep ruby/garnet color with little to no head. What head does develop is quick-lived and fizzy off-white. Aroma is clean with loads of sour cherries and light toasted oak notes. A bit of alcohol aroma gathers near the end and as it warms. A lightly sweet malt backbone pleasantly supports the tart and sour aromas. Flavor is lightly sweet malt with a puckering sour cherry dominance. Little to no hop bitterness is present, and even if it were, the tart and lactic sourness would overpower it. A slight oak and wine character is also present, with a dry finish. Medium bodied with a mouth-watering sourness.

GABF 09. Pours a clear cherry red with a fizzy head. Aroma is nice sweet and tart cherries, mineral and cherry pit, pedio sour cherry pie, leather earth and light on the oak. Flavor is a bit sour vinegar- acetobacter, cherry pit, tannins, oak, light vanilla, good sour cherry flavor and a sharp acidic finish. Pretty good.

(Draught) Pours a clear amber body with a small off-white head. Aroma of vinegar, sour cherry, caramel, and lacto. Flavor of tart cherries, vinegar, earth, and light vanilla with a dry oak finish.

On tap at Coopersmiths(drank not crushed) poured a clear dark reddish brown with a small lingering amber head. Aromas of sour cherry, oak, light horseblanket and a hint of vinegar. Palate was light bodied and crisp with a dry tart finish. Flavors of sour cherry, oak, earthiness, light horseblanket and a hint of vinegar with a crisp dry lingering tart cherry finish.