Kasteel Kriek

Looks like a fine wine with a pinkish head on it. Aroma is full of cherries. Flavor is tart with a slight bite due to the alcohol content. One would not be able to enjoy this all night, but they can enjoy it!

Bottles on 070924 according to the bottle, 11/07 according to the cork. Pour is red amber, dark, velvety and a pretty pink head. Aroma is full of cherries, strong bittersweet cherries. There is a faint hint of musty Belgian beer, sweet malt yeast. Flavor is very sweet, almost like sparkling cherry juice. This is one of the most fruity-fruit beers I have had, but its one of the more drinkable of the class. The redeeming feature of this beer is that it does close with some malt characteristics with the sourness of the cherries.

Deep burgundy/red colour with a thin pink head. Light chewy cherry aroma. Rich cherry pit spiciness. Some other apricot pit/almondy nuttiness. Rich and quite sweet. Cherries and a lovely cinnamon/clove character. Lightly vineous character and a soft cherry/fruitiness. Lingering sweetness with a touch of light tartness. This reminds me of Quelque Chose, but a little bit simpler.

Pours an opaque, strongly reddish mahogany with a fine-bubbled pinkish head. Scent of cherries dominates the the malty aroma. Flavor is almost too sweet, mainly cherry with an undertone of malt. Mouthfeel is smooth and pleasing, and aftertaste is mainly sweet but not cloying with hints of hops.

On tap at the Brick Store in Decatur into a really cool Kasteel chalice. Pours a deep, clear ruby with a pinkish head that lingered as a cap for the duration leaving good lacing. The smell is like a cherry lollipop with big sweet cherries dominating. There is some yeast as well, but its really all about the sugary sweet cherries. Tastes like a cheery cough drop - lots of big sweet cherries. Its very one-dimensional, but still pretty damn tasty. The mouthfeel is medium bodied with lots of carbonation and extremely sticky sweet on the palate. Again, its not very complex, but sometimes it doesnt need to be to be very good. I enjoyed this one thoroughly though drinking an entire bottle of this might be a task with the overpowering sweetness.

Had this one at a sauna complex in Bleiswijk, what a beautiful glass! It looks like a castle. Nice head but too sweet for my liking, nice round taste though. I much prefer the regular Kasteel beer.

33cl bottle as kasteel rouge. Pours bloody red with a pink head. Sweet cherries all over. Sugar and syrup. Lively carbonation. Touch of alcohol and acid. On the sweet side but somehow drinkable and well made.

Clear ruby red with a pink head. Big cherry cough drop aroma. Light to medium body with a prickly mouthfeel. Nice cherry juice flavor on a nuetral malt base. Very sweet.