Girardin Kriek

Brewed by Brouwerij Girardin
Style: Lambic - Fruit
Sint Ulriks-Kapelle, Belgium

Serve in Flute, Tumbler

Bottle at T’ Brugs Beertje in Bruges. Black cherry colored pour with a big rose-colored head. Aroma holds light cherry, sweet fruity funk, and some hay- more subtle than many krieks. Flavor is very light and fruity, and the spontaneous fermentation isn’t quite as aggressive as I would like. Palate is light and crisp. Nice, but not on the level of Girardin’s black label.

Bottled 375ml. Ordered from erzbiershop.ch. Good head retention. Reminiscence of marzipan and yoghurt throughout. Balanced. Not really my kind of kriek.

33oml. corked. Fantastic kriek . Very soulful tart notes that seduce . Some musty cobweb and very understated cherry sweetness . Pink love juice.

750 ml bottle a purple red colored beer with a white head aroma cherries fruit sweetness and sourness taste cherries fruit sweetness and sourness

Bottle 37.5 BB 2010, pours hazy red, with a frothy pink head. Light, slightly sweet, cherry aroma. Taste is a nice mix of sweet and sour, though quite dry. Finish is also dry and slightly sour. Nothing fancy, but a very descent kriek nonetheless.

Bottle at Palace Hotel, Poperinge, Belgium.
Pours an amber raspberry with an aroma of peel-the-paint-off-the-car sour cherry. Flavor is subdued cherry with a finish of tart and light raspberry. A bit watery on the tongue. Good beer but this one was aged a bit too long. It’s lost its intensity.

Bottled sample. Rose in colour with medium carbonation. Aromas are of cherry cordial syrup, backed by some flaked wheat. Sweet cherry upfront in the mouth, along with pumpkin pie spices (mace, cinnamon, etc.). Fairly sweet on the palate, but the finish is mercifully tart. More like a semi-sweet dessert beer than a serious sour kriek. Not bad.

Aroma has a nice hint of vanilla in it - it’s like smelling a cherry cake with vanilla frosting. Medium + tartness level. Flavor has the fruit right up front, but with a drier, elegant finish. Really nice.