Kasteel Kriek

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

Serve in Flute

Blood red with a pink head. Big cherry aroma. Big cherry taste as well. This is smooth, malty and sweet. Not a lot of tartness, but enough to make it so the sweet cherry flavor is not cloying. Very natural flavor. Just the slightest amount of bittering hops at the tail end. Lively carbonation. I love cheery beers and this is one of the best I’ve had. The New Glarus may be the only one better. Can’t believe this is 8% ABV, can’t detect a bit of it on the palate. If you like cherry ales, this is a fantastic treat.

Love this beer, Beautiful cherry nose, clear red colour and lovely lambic kriek taste that lingers and warms you up, makes it ideal for summer or winter.

Not a good looking beer in general, but nice for the style. It pours a dark burgundy with a think pinkish head. Looks very rich sitting in the goblet. Doesn’t really smell like a beer; the cherry smell is undeniable and overpowers everything else. But, it’s such a fabulous smell nontheless. The taste follows the smell. I expected the strong cherry smell to translate into a sour taste, but it’s not at all. It’s slightly tart, but there’s plenty of sweet to it. A lot of complexity, as it’s sweet, tangy, tart and dry. However, none of the feelings are obnoxious. The best fruit beer I’ve ever had. In addition, one of the best beers I’ve ever had. Serving type: bottle

33cl bottle at the Fiddler. Very sweet. Strong cherry taste. I much prefer the other Kasteel beers.

holy crap this tastes EXACTLY like eating cherry pie. I like cherry pie so cool, but if you don’t BEE FOREWARNED!!!

Medium pink head. Deep dark red body. Cherry syrup aroma with yoghurt notes. Sweet cherry syrup and earth taste with yoghurt notes. Mid-bodied. Mild, faintly astringent mouthfeel. Dry wooden sharpish cherry aftertaste with yoghurt notes. Drinkable, but one-dimensional. (0.33l bottle, Kastanienhof, Aalst, Belgium.)

$8.99/750 ml bottle. A red beer almost purple with a pink head. The aroma is bursting with cherries, and or cherry juice. Like a fruit punch, cherry, cherry, cherry. The taste obviuosly has cherries and really taste like I’m drinking cherry juice. Basically a cherry soda and the 8% ABV is nonexistent. Oh I forgot to mention the word cherry in my review. More cherries.

750ml bottle. Pours a deep amber red color with a light pink frothy head. Aroma is sweet cherries. Taste has a sweat malt backbone which provides some balance to the cherry tartness. Warming taste of alcohol follows and finishes dry and bittersweet. Medium creamy body. The overwhelming sweetness permeates everything.