Gaverhopke Kriek

Brewed by ’t Gaverhopke
Style: Fruit Beer
Stasegem-Harelbeke, Belgium

Serve in Flute

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Bottled@GBBF2008. Hazy amber colour, not much head. Aroma is cherries, sour wood and some earthyness. Flavour is cherry, moul, earth and barnyard.

Bottled - GBBF 2008. A cherry red coloured beer with minimal off-white wisps of head. The aroma has cherries, but it’s too thin, and a bit syrupy. The taste has a bit of tartness, and again far too little cherry. Too thin and boring.

33cl, exclusive brewery, from De Hopduvel Gent, complex, not balanced Kriek, hazy, nearly no head, nothing special

UPDATED: JUN 10, 2008 On draft at beer festival at zottegem. A nice and good tasting kreek beer. Wish that most kreek beer would be as tastefull as this one. Had it also on bottle

Bottle, 33 cl. (bought at the brewpub) Tasted yesetrday with Leen and Paul) Hazy pale rosy-to peach color, very small white head. Aroma bit sour, cherry, fruits. Medium body. Taste bit sweet, fruits, cherries. Nice fruitbeer.

Bottle (only distinguished from the rest of the Gaverhopke range by the red cap) at Kulminator. Burgundy red with a fierce pinkish head that almost disappeared completely. Aroma is sweet fruit with a special sourness. Good sour flavours, countered by somewhat artificial sweetness and wood. Fruit is quite prominent. Good carbonation, long aftertaste. An interesting attempt at a kriek- with its good sourness it is probably best placed in the oud bruin category. Not so happy about the artificial sweetness, but it does not completely destroy a good beer.

At the Kulminator. Pours a dirty orange-pink coloured beer with a pink head disappearing in seconds. Aroma is slight oxidized and has touches of stuffed cherries, wood, muchrooms and some cinnamon. The taste is wine likle (Old wine) cloves, wood and oxidized fruit pulp. Light boddied and a very watery texture. Only finiched 1/2 of the glass.

UPDATED: JUN 13, 2005 (Bottle) Very beautiful clear and pronounced red beer, with a sediment that sticks to the bottom of the bottle and a slightly rosy head, that descends flat and creamy. The beer is quite dry. The cherries are obvious, but doesn’t add sweetness, more sourness. The base-beer is probably a blond ale. 191004

Bottled. Cherry red. Bigaroon aroma. Medium bodied with clean mouthfeel. Juicy flavour of bigaroon (not at all the typical cherry flavour you’ll find in most Belgian kriekbiers), some lighl acidity and some sweetness. Unlike the other beers I had from t’Gaverhopke it doesn’t really take off.

Totally hazy pale rosy-to peach colour, foaming but no head except for slim white lines across the surface. Good cherry nose, fruity, sourish. Tart taste, full fruitiness, slightly lactic, earthy, farmyard, but nothing extreme - good! Medium bodied - exactly right for a fruit beer. Excellent fruitbeer. maybe just a bit too much fruit and too little beer. He ought to make (much) more of this, cause this is very rare and hard to find.