4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Corked and capped 750. Pours hazy red with a pink head. A bit of funk in the nose, along with cherries, lemons, wood. Medium body and carbonation. The taste is lemony sour, and goes along the same lines as the aroma with cherries, lemons, wood, funk with a tart crisp finish. A dandy kriek.
4.2 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Pours a murky bright grapefruit-juice pink with a fine frothy white head. Wonderful dusty wild yeast and cherry aroma with some funky cheese that cuts the acidity. Mildly tart and acidic, lovely ripe cherries, more of a lambiic than sour ale, however you can tell its not straight lambic. Medium/light bodied with abrasive carbonation. Yummy brew that is actually quite easy to drink.
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
750 ml bottle @ Maltainen Monni, Helsinki. Clear ruby red color, pinkish head. Notably sour fruity aroma. Appealing sour flavor with cherry/berry notes. Sharp carbonation. A quality kriek indeed.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Pours a bright orange that is just a tad red. Aroma - crisp sour smells of tarty cherries, apples, and pears. First taste is sweet and bitter with cherries, green apples, and grapes dominating the flavor. A very nice mouthfeel compliments this sour well. A good sipper that is on the mild side of sour.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle. Not the sourest kriek i’ve had and not the best but a solid kriek that i can usually find, heck it saved mikkeller black from a complete drain pour. Solid cherry woody puckering kriek.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Muddy red with a low pink head. Acid aroma of lemon, grape cherry and wood. The flavour is very dry and acid -lambic all the way through as far as I can detect. Their is not much sour feel n this one. It’s all about harsh grape and cherry.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
12.2009 best by date. Hazy cherry color with a pink hued head. Great aroma is toasted wood with tart lemon, cherry and some barnyard funk. Good taste is tart cherry lemons with moldy barnyard. Drys out for the finish with a toasted wood flavor kicking in. Pucker factor is mild to medium throughout the drink. Enjoyed this one.
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
The body is the color of a bisected ruby red grapefruit, clear upon the first pour and increasingly hazy as the bottle nears its end. A foamy, fizzy, off-white head settles slowly to a wispy film with a thin edge. Sudsy lace pools back into the liquid from which it was spawned. The aroma is as divine as expected, exceedingly tart, juicy red cherries being the obvious focal point. Dusty barnyard yeast lends a dry, funky, lambic-like character, while notes of soft, vanilla laden oak soften things up considerably. Flavors are mouth puckering and sour up front, fading into softer, sweeter cherries at the mid-point, and ramping back up towards intensely tart on the finish. Oaky vanilla and damp, sour, farmhouse wood notes linger on the finish. The body shows more substantial than a typical lambic, no doubt due to the slightly increased sugar content. Light to moderate carbonation works wonderfully in this brew. I’m thinking Hanssens Oude Kriek cut with New Glarus Belgian Red, 80/20. You can’t go wrong with something like that, in my book. Fantastic beer.
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