3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 17/20
Cloudy red color, almost no head. Great aroma of cherries and dust. Sour and dusty flavor of cherries. Dusty finish. Light body, powdery texture, soft carbonation. Very good.
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Best by July 2007 Nice clear ruby body, topped by a quickly diminshing light pink head. Glass lacing is above average. The aroma is cherry, musty barnyard, and a good dose of acidity. The flavor is sour cherry, barnyard up front then some woody notes. Medium dry acidic body. Nice beer.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Red with small head. Cork, cherries (over-ripe!?), wood, citrus. Soft, medium body.
4 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 17/20
We start out cooling our heels with the goats in the goat pen. A chicken walks by, squawking angrily, and throwing white feathers in the air which mix with the pong of the goat's hair to form a new aroma. As the day warms, we move on and observe some horses. The air is now a mix of horse sweat, manure, and old corn cobs; along with a few rotten apple cores that somebody forgot to pick up. The sun overhead makes us light-headed, and we fall into a large trough filled with cherries. We drink the fragrant juice, mixed with the rich black soil that was coating the cherries, and fall asleep - to awake at twilight, our faces sticky with cherry and earth and smiles.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
This was very mild and I expected more lambic character. I am currently trying to gain more experience with these types of beers and this makes a unique entry. It is not nearly as sweet as Lindeman’s and yet has less lambic than other krieks that I have tried. Pours with a small head on top of a dark red and orange body. The aroma is a light vinegar, apple and hay. The taste starts with a little lemon sourness and I had a hard time detecting the cherries. I will probably try this again in the future.
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Tasted in NYC. Tasted at brewtopia 04. WOW! nice kriek! This beer was very surprising. Light chery red colour, thin white wispy head. Aroma of cherries is so prevelant I want to die a pitted death.
4.3 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
UPDATED: APR 22, 2008 20040600 Brewtopia’04. Red, plum skin color, murky, no head. Bursting ripe cherry on nose. Reminds me of early season Flathead cherries: sour, tart cherry flavor, sort of musty on nose and tongue. Dry and sweet.
Re-rate at Spuyten Beast of the Yeast 20070610. Very effervescent and lithe. Nice cherry tartness with maybe a hoppy bite? Chock full of cherries. bumped score slightly from 8-3-9-4-15
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cloudy brown-plum body, slight ring of white bubbles around the glass. Ripe cherry aroma with an earthy, oaky character. Raspberry, cherry and some vanilla smoothness in the flavor. Most of the sweetness comes from fruit rather than malt.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Dull light burgundy colour. Opaque. Aroma of cherry, slight old wooden barn - dry and musty. Fairly tart, lovely sour taste, slightly woody, lots of cherry, and subtle hints of sugar. Excellent stuff.
4.4 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
This was my vote for winner of the Chicago Lambic Tasting 2004, a bottle of 1999 de Ranke, which has a 10% blend of Girardin Lambic...totally obvious, and amazing. Complexity and liveliness was superior to most other krieks. Massive fresh cherry sourness (from using only fresh cherries and no syrup). Puckering until the dry, musty finish. Left a great tartness on the lips. Amazing!
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