4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Kriek de rank is a big kriek with sourness and fruit balanced almost to perfection. It lacks a little bit of the complexity when compared with Drie Fonteinen and even Cantillon.
4.2 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Hazy light peachy-cherrysoda hue. Soda like carbonation wih an almost instantly disappearing pinkish head. Floral, fruity, barnyard, horseblanket, vinegar, cherry nose. Light-footed, very effervescent mouth feel. Light cheddar, but not too much. Vinous, acidic, yet tart and tremendously balanced. A very nice beer, highly recommended.
3.1 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Now that is one strong sourball...its not often you run across a fruit beer running near 7 percent alcohol, so that made this sour drink quite a whopper. It pours an off red..slightly cloudy with no apparent head. The nose is a sour lemony cherry thing..with no hints of alcohol. The taste is a huge sour grapefruit ball. Serious tongue drying going on here as the lemony, peachy, cherriness just strips the hell out of what might be in your mouth and on your tongue at the time. Carbonation in this puppy is decently active as i would expect. I found it to be just a wee bit sour and the flavors were just a tad off to truly appreciate the Kriek...however i wouldnt turn a glass down if presented with one again
3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
WOuld have hoped for more of a cherry zing on this one. It wasn't terrible by any means. Mildly sour nose mixed with the tannic smell of oak barrels. Nice fruity nose and taste but the cherries taste as if they are holding back. Watered down cherry appearance, sort of like Kool-Aid.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
A nice musty grapefruit red color to it. A minimal tan yellowish head. Sweet sour is the aroma, and the taste is closesly related to tarty grapefruits and apricots.
3.6 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
juicy reds and oranges come together and climax in nice lathering atop while barnyard fumes circle around cherry pies and sour balls..a low carbination experience awaits with some subdued cherry sourness and some oak notes..but all in all, too subdued to warrant any kind of enthused reaction...
3.6 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Nose of lemon juice and cherries, with hints of cut grass. Sourness is strong, but not enough to overpower me. Otherwise, the flavor is dry, lemony, with notes of freshly cut grass and a shot of cherry (but not too sweet).
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Dark red beer with a small head. Sour and cherry aroma, surprise!. A failry mild, slightly bitter kriek.
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Pretty deep red. Good nose, nutty and fruity. Flavor very tart, but not as much cherry as I’d like, more sour than fruit. A mite thin.
4.4 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
UPDATED: SEP 1, 2003 Bottle. GBBF2003 (kriek tasting session). Deep red colour, red/beige head and moderate condition. Cherry and lambic notes, some apparent hoppiness and a tingle of tartness in the nose, although more Flanders red than lambic tart. Oily mouthcoating cherry fruit, malt and citric notes in the mouth, becoming very dry and nutty in the finish .
old rating 3.6 Blackcurrant red colour with a purply pink head that was shortlived and low condition. Initial lambic aromas with a low cherry note in the background. It has a woody tartness and sweet cherry notes then becomes dry at tart in the finish.
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