Kasteel Kriek

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

A wonderful beer, the fruit is sweet but not sticky. It reminds me of a Lindmans Kriek lambic though a bit less sour and cleaner The ruby color the fresh scent, amazing all the way around.

Absolutely love this brew on tap, or in the bottle. Pleasantly sour, and bursting with rich sour and sweet cherry flavor, I could drink this one all day...and night. So glad to see it hitting the States heavy!

On tap at Eulogy. The pour was red with no head. Very pretty beer. The nose was sweet and tart cherries with an underlaying malt character. Basically same with the flavor. A bit heavy on the body with lots of carbonation to contain it. Balanced finish. Very interesting beer.

Poured a nice ruby red color with a pinkish head. Aroma is acidic and sour with a nice cherry scent. Flavor is also a bit sour but with a very nice cherry finish.

750ml bottle. Pours cherry red and amber colored with a head that has a reddish tint to it. The cherry aroma is unmistakable. Sweet and zingy. An overall nice flavor. The grain bill is substantial enough to hold the powerful cherry flavor. I don’t know if they needed to add the cheery juice, the fruit in my opinion, would have been enough and probably would have accentuated the sour flavor that is there, but light and over powered by sweet. Medium wet mouth feel and body. In final summary, you can’t help to compare this to cough drops, but in this case it was a particularly yummy cough drop.

Brown beer with red highlights and a pink head. Aroma is intense with a sweet and sour cherry note. Also has some balsamic vinegar in there, too. Taste is overly sweet with only a bit of acidity to balance it out. Couldn’t pick up on any real funk as one would see in a kriek. Tastes like carbonated Nyquil.

Draught at Kulminator. Dark red with a red head, some lacings. Aroma moderate malty (cherries). Flavor moderate sweet, heavy acidic. Light body.

330 ml bottle. dark red almost brown colour. pink head. taste is very sweet cherry, like a kriek should be, but it just doesn’t do it for me ...