Kasteel Kriek

33cl bottle. Beautiful dark red-brown with a creamy and lacy red tinged tan head. Big cherry aroma. Sweet cherry flavor and a light tartness. Not much else to say. It’s a cherry bomb that isn’t cloying but isn’t quite tart enough to be really refreshing. Medium bodied with high carbonation.

First cherry beer I have actually enjoyed. Pours dark ruby red, small foam does not last, tight little pink head remains. Nose is distinct sweet cherry, good carbonation like soda. After taste leaves little bitterness on the toungue.

Everything about this beer is distinct. It looks like Roddy Grand Cru in the goblet, but with a nice frothy head. Smells like a cherry soda, and tastes like a soft microbrewed cherry soft drink. Mouthfeel is thick and delicious like a homebrewed soda pop. Finish is dry with a strange bitterness. This is the only beer I’ve had at 8% that is actually quite easy to chug.

Bottle. Pours ruby red with thick, crimson head. Aroma of cherries, wonderful nose. Taste is sweet cherries but not overpowering. Thcik mouthfeel. Best fruit beer I’ve had. Very good!!

Bottle, as ’Kasteel Rouge’. ’Kriek’ is really pushing it. Burgundy capped with a sweetshop slick of pink .Sweet cherrydrop aroma, tiny hint of breadiness, alcohol. Way too sweet but not tooth-rotting with some alcohol bitterness and a pleasant wintery glow as it goes down. Sweeter than cherry drops, but no sweetener-derived off notes, at least. Leaves a stickiness on the lips like cola. Sugary commercial cherry beer with zero sourness, acidity, complexity or interest, but the plughole’s not getting any. Wildly overrated.

Opaque black-red with lovely strawberry colored frothy foam. Aroma is loads of mashed up cherries minus pits but skins included. Marachino sharpness. Excellent palate is smooth, nice. Finish is slightly thin, though. Something really nice about this, it’s not too sweet, has an astringent cherry quality as if sweet and dry at same time. A little thin but solid and unfortunately becomes more medicinal with each sip.

Had the Kasteel Rouge (red) It is brewed with cherries. With a very dark red or dark burgundy and a light pink foam. the very strong smell of cheries is very present. The taste is very sweet, maybe too much and again the taste of cheries is very present. Good beer.

Strong cherry aroma. Beautiful red aroma. Cherry flavor dominates flavor. Weak carbonation and lack of sour leaves very cloying sweet finish.