Kuitenbijter Memorial Kriek

Brewed by Microbrouwerij Den Triest
Style: Fruit Beer
1880 Kapelle O/D Bos, Belgium

Serve in Flute, Shaker

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As much as I like the products of microbreweries, every once in a while one of those beers doesn’t live up to the expectations. Announced as a new artisanal kriekbier, this was a bit of a disappointment. It shouldn’t even be called a kriekbier, technically. It’s a witbier (I suspect it may actually even be a lager) with cherry juice blended in and then refermented. Cherry sour smell and... well, cherries. Taste? Too sweet, way too sweet. Okay, there’s some tartness from the cherries and a suspicious lager-ish base to it. Leaves a sticky finish. Maybe it might grow with aging, but the one we tasted was bland, flat, uninspiring. At best, a nice try, but I for one am not sorry this was a limited brew.

11/VII/2012 - 75cl bottle from De Bierloods / Zytholoog (Adegem) @ home - BB: IX/2011 (2012-713)

Clear ruby red beer, big creamy pink head, unstable, adhesive. Aroma: candy, citric acidity, bit yeasty. MF: ok carbon, medium to light body. Taste: chloride start, lots of citric acidity, some cherry candy, little bitter. Aftertaste: sourish, sweet candy, artificial cherry flavour, but sugary. Not the worst sweet kriek I ever had! Would not buy it again, but it someone offered me a glass, I wouldn’t refuse it.

Bottle 750ml.

[ As Den Triest Kriek ].
ABV: 5.0%. Clear dark red colour with a large, frothy to creamy, good to excellent lacing, fully lasting, pink head. Aroma is light to moderate malty, moderate cherry, sour cherry, sweet cherry, almond. Flavour is moderate sweet and light light acidic with a average to long duration, tart, medicine notes. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20111105]

As Den Triest Kriek
Clear red body. Pink, creamy head. Aroma of cherries: lightly sour - sourness clearly from the sour cherries and not a lambic style sourness. Quite nice and well drinkable.

Bottle @ Early Winter Tasting, Ulfborg, 2011. Pours unclear red with a pink lasting head. Vague nose of berries and marzipan. Dry and fruity flavor with vaguely tart fruity notes.

Bottle@Ulfborg tasting.Pours red with an off-white head .Aroma of cherries, malt, sour berries and fruitiness.Flavor is sweet cherries and fruitiness with some sourness.Medium body, average carbonation.

Bottle, 75cl, as Triest Kriek. A glowing, cherry red beer topped by a dense, pinkish white head leaving some lacings. Sour cherries and some sourish notes on the nose. A light herbal hint in the far back, and also a touch of almonds. The flavor is quite pleasant, a blend of cherries of lemon. Dry on the palate, pleasantly carbonated and medium bodied. A quite decent cherry beer, tart and tasteful, but too bland aroma. 111105

Bottle @ FOneFan as Den Triest Kriek. Ruby with medium pink head. Aroma is fruit, cherries and a little sour. Flavour is cherries, fruit, little sour, malt and medium sweet.

As Den Triest Kriek. Clear red with a pink head. Aroma is sweet and cherries. Flavor is medium sweet and moderate acidic. Dry and moderate acidic finish. 051111

Bottle as Den Triest Kriek @ fonefan tasting. Nice pink head with good duration. Color is ruby. Aroma and taste are sweet cherries, malt, citrus and hops. A little citric.