3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle at Sourfest. Pours with a red body and a fading white head. Aroma is funk, sour, with cherries. Taste is acidic, tart, funky. A bit acetic with lots of fruit. Lively bubbles with a super dry mouthfeel.
4 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Thanks Andy! Very red. Not super funky. Not super sour. Lovely cherry. Straight forward goodness. Getting more sour. Salty.
4.3 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 17/20
Beautiful ruby red body, nice off-white/slightly pink head. Big tart pie cherry nose, lots of funk, yogurt and cheese. Light to moderate sweetness, light to moderate sourness, lots of funk, excellent cherry character, nice almond notes, some honey sweetness. Medium body is round and well carbonated. Awesome.
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle sample at the HSC Sour tasting on 6/19/10. Pours clear red with a thin off-white head. Aroma of super sour cherries, vinegar and a bit of pepper. Cherry and malt flavor with tons of sour vinegar flavor. Up there with Cantillon and 3 Fonteinen in terms of sourness. Good though.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Sample at the HSC Sour Beer Tasting on 06/19/2010: This Kriek is a mostly clear reddish-amber color with a medium off-white head that dissipates to an outer ring. Stringy lacing on the glass. Funky aroma with notes of sour fruit, wine cork and brett. Medium body with a moderately sour character and flavors of lemon, apple cider, malt and more brett. The finish is woody and fruity with a cherry aftertaste. Pretty good, and I liked it equally with the Cuvée de Ranke sampled right before it.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
UPDATED: JAN 29, 2012 A: Deep red body with a nice sized pink head. Not much in the way of retention as the head quickly crashed to a spotty skim. Just a little bit of spotty lace left behind.
S: Tart and sour cherries. Oak. A bit of funk as well as some red wine and vinegar.
T: Much like the nose, the dark, sour cherries are present from the very first drop. Equal parts tart and sour. Oak accentuates the fruit nicely and the red wine like notes fill out the rest of the profile.
M: Medium bodied. Effervescent, a tad bit too effervescent. As noted above, fairly sour and tart. Not overpowering, however.
O: All in all a good fruit lambic. I found the carbonation to be a bit on the high side and the prickly feel detracted from an otherwise good beer.
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 16/20
750 cap and cork. Best before 09 2012. Hazy lipstick red pour with foamy whitish pink head. Aroma is cherries, tart, sour, oak, barnyard and must. Flavor is very tart, mouthpuckeringly so, funk, sourness, hint of cherries, attic, and red wine. Extremely dry mouthfeel with nice bubbles. Fantastic!
3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle at a tasting.
Appearance : Clear red small head.
Aroma : Very tart and sour. A bit acidic, quite barnyard. A bit vinous.
Taste : Sour and tart. A bit acidic but mostly tart. Some cherries but not that much. Finish is nicely tart and barnyard.
Overall : Nice beer. Not a lot of cherries. Nice barnyard and tart.
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