Kasteel Kriek

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

Dégusté avec Pyrozoid a l’autre oeil. Couleur rouge/cuivré avec des reflets rubis, petit collet blanc mat. Aromes de cerises de cocktail, licorice, fraises, sucre de candi, alcool et une petite touche de menthe. Prédominance sur le sucré, tres bonne rondeur tout de meme, bonne sensation d’alcool avec une finition un peu huileuse. Gout tres sucré et acide des cerises et canneberges. Une note subtile d’alcool reviens.

Appearance: Pours a clear, deep, dark ruby-hued body capped by an inch of pink foam. Smell: Candy-like nose of sweet-smelling concentrated cherry juice. Jolly Ranchers cooked down into a pot of Kool-Aid where somewhere didn’t add nearly enough water. Taste: Super sweet blend of melted lollipops, Luden’s Wild Cherry cough drops, and grenadine. Very light cherry tartness. Some meager perceived hints at actual malts, but it’s pretty much straight-up cherries through and through. Mouthfeel: Medium-plus body. Medium-low carbonation. Drinkability: A bit simple with it’s delivery of just cherries and jolting sweetness. Me, I’d sooner reach for something a bit more graceful, like New Glarus Belgian Red. Still though, I found it reasonably enjoyable, but I could see many people considering this to be outright cloying.

Dégusté à l’autre oeil bistro dans un verre trappiste. Version de 330 ml avec l’inscription Kasteel rouge. Une bière d’apparence rouge profond avec une légère gazéfication et un filet de mousse. Une odeur de cerise boisée et de réglisses. Une bière très liquoreuse avec de la pomme grenade et une légère amertume. Une finale bien gazéfier suivis de sucré agréable et de crême soda rouge et de gingembre. Une bière surprenante!

Sampled as Kasteel Rouge from a bottle @ World Cafe Live Winterfest. Fellow attendees thought it tasted like ’Robitussin’. I had a different take, I thought was an well done blended Belgian Ale. Cherry dominates the flavor but backed up well with malts and a hint of Belgian yeast. I agree with most raters, I couldn’t drink it all night, however it was a well done fruit beer.

On tap and called Kasteel Rouge. A light and pleasant fruit brew. Strong cherry aroma and flavor. Its weakness is a soda poppy quality.

Bottled 2 years old, thanks to a friend (Arjen). Dark red coloured, pinkish head. Strong cherry aroma. Very sweet cherry flavour, cloying. Overly sweet imho.

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.