Kasteel Kriek

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

kasteel rouge on tap @ papago...pours the color of zergüt sour cherry syrup topped with a little pink head. aroma is tart with sour cherries. a bit of maltiness hides behind it. flavor is the same combination...along with some wood and a dry herb/hops finish. starts sweet it fades to finish dry. lingering cherry flavor. medium bodied with high carbonation. tastes like it’s missing something....

Bottle 0,33ltr: You Kateel-beer and their St.Louis Kriek, and combined you got this heavy fruit ale, dark red ale with the early mentioned cherries wit 8% alcoholpercentage.

Bottle. Reddish beer with a thin head. Cherry, earthy aroma. Cherry, earthy, sweet flavor. Medium body. Nice sweet/tart flavor. LIngering cherry, earth, tart. Reminds me a lot of a LIndemans without being as sweet. Easy drinking - 8% surprises me.

On tap at Brixie’s in Brookfield, IL-- named Kasteel Rouge. Not at all sour-- very much a sweet cherry fruit beer. Almost reminded me of New Glarus Belgian Red. Very refreshing with no aftertaste.

Guest tap at 3Floyds brewpub. Served in a big Rochefort goblet. Black body with sudsy bubbles. Sweet and tart cherry smell combined, not much else, but that can be enough. Great taste of sweet cherries, but balanced with malt so it’s not just a cherry cocktail. A slight note of cocoa. Carbonation level is right between beer and champagne, and seems appropriate for this brew. Joyfully alcoholic.

tap at Toronado. Hmm more like cherry juice than beer but quite pleasant. This one has cherries and not much else. Super sweet with just a hint of malts. I liked it but would not call mit beer. This is one of the most extreme krieks I sampled.

Draft at Monk’s Cafe, under the Rouge label. Fire engine red with a firm top. Sweet cherry aroma, of course. This drinks like a liquid cherry Jolly Rancher, sugary-candied sweet, but somehow still enjoyable. (#3188, 11/9/2007)

On Tap @ Papago The beer pours a deep black cherry color, the head creamy and reddish purple in color, the size modest, as it depletes, and the lace forms a thin but concealing sheet. Nose is steeped in sweet ripe cherries, with a nut-like undertone, tart and crisp, a real delight for the ocular and olfactory senses. Start is ripe sweet fruit at the front; tart at the back, hint bitterness also present, top is moderate in feel. Finish has a stinging acidity, tart cherry flavor carries to the end, not a hint of the eight percent alcohol, what a “Hoot”.