Kasteel Kriek

Brewed by Brouwerij Van Honsebrouck
Style: Fruit Beer
Ingelmunster, Belgium

Serve in Flute

A little too sweet for my taste. Has a beautiful and inviting colour, though.

Dark red colour with a minimal head. Black cherry smell and taste. Goes down very easy and fast with no signs of alcohol so the 8% sneaks up on you. A little sweet but if you cut it with an IPA it makes for nice drinking.

Poured ruby red with a small pinkish head. Sweet aroma, mostly cherry juice and sugar. Taste is completely sweet. No balance. Cloying. Much closer to juice or a cherry slurpee than it is to beer.

Bottled on 11/27/07. Poured into a snifter, deep blood red in color. Nose of strong tart and sweet cherries. Head has a pink hue and the lacing has great retention. Cherry coke without the cola. The 8% ABV is well hidden. Too much cherry and the added cherry juice really made it over-powering. I wouldn’t buy again. But it was nice to try.

Bottled on 11/27/07. Poured into a snifter, deep blood red in color. Nose of strong tart and sweet cherries. Head has a pink hue and the lacing has great retention. Cherry coke without the cola. The 8% ABV is well hidden. Too much cherry and the added cherry juice really made it over-powering. I wouldn’t buy again.

Clear Garnet ruby pour light pink head aroma of sour cherries sweet cherry juice and oak taste of fresh cherry little sour and sweet light chocolate with a dry cherry finish. Almost like a black cherry soda no trace of abv very drinkable

Blood color with pink highlights. Sweet aroma of cherry bubbegum. Cherry flavor with lots of sweetness. Some malt flavor. Carbonated lot soda. No alcohol to be found. Goes down way too easy.

Rated in the spring 2010: Served in a bottle [Kasteel Rouge]: Nice head and fenomenal aroma. The taste is a bit too sweet but perfectly malted and leaves no alcoholic taste as feared..