Liefmans Glühkriek

Brewed by Liefmans (Moortgat)
Style: Fruit Beer
Oudenaarde, Belgium

Serve in Flute

Bottle at room temperature. Dark red with a small fizz that disappears completely in an instant. Aroma is spicy and sweet with cherries. Taste is sweet like glögg with cherries. It actually taste exactly like those chewy haribo cherry sweets.

Bottle. Sweet and spicy in a christmasy way. Notes of lingonberries, cherry chewing gum and licorice.

1997 bottle shared by Matt, thanks! Poured a hazy brownish amber with no head whatsoever. Aroma had a good amount of spice that combined with a sweet grain note and a sweet cherry note. Flavor had a slightly medicinal cherry note with spices, and a bit of sweet grain in the finish.

shared by holdenn, apparently about a decade old bottle. pours ruby no head n spicy clove cardamom vanilla cough syrup. flavors have sweet cough syrup with Xmas spices cloves. thin body.

Bottle. Hazy dark red with a small white head that disappears quickly. Medium bodied, quite low carbonation, but still fizzy.
Heated:
Aroma: wine, Christmas spices, lots of cherries. Taste: spices, heated cherry jam or marmalade, low but spicy bitterness, medium sour and sweet at the same time.
Cold:
Aroma: glögg spices and cherries, more alcohol than in the heated. Taste: a bit more sour than the heated, but this is balanced by a sweetness. Spices of course. In the finish, there is a sourness that curls the tongue a bit.
Both work, but the unheated is better. An odd one, not very beery but very Christmassy.

Enjoyed both warm and cold. Very spicy, lots of cloves, anise, maybe cinnamon and ginger. When cold, spiciness is almost mentholy. Slightly sour cherry juice, some currans. More balancend taste when warm, more berries and less overwhelming spiciness. Low carbonation, flat and juicy when wam. Medium bodied. Definately better when warm, when it gains some extra depth and balance. Still quite hard to rate as a beer.

I only tried this cool, though on the label they recommend to heat it. Pours a very beautiful dark rubyred with brown hints, producing just a thin hint of a head. Sweet cherry up front soon gives place to more vinous and spicy, mainly cardamom and cloves, flavours along with some marzipan and a very light tartness. A drier cherry flavour then lingers. Carbonation is just at tingle on the tongue. This is sooo drinkable, I finished a 750 ml bottle on my own and wanted more.

Bottle from Systembolaget. Flatt, almost no carbonation and no head what so ever. Clowdy red color. The aroma is like my mothers cherry lemonade, full of nice cherry but also some spices and litle like German Gluhwine. The taste is sweet and with the the gluh-wine taste. This is what I get if i mix a bottle of mothers cherrie lemonade and a bottle of international lager, but without carbonation.