Lindemans Kriek

Brewed by Brouwerij Lindemans
Style: Lambic - Fruit
St Pieters Leeuw-Vlezenbeek, Belgium

20081231 750ml bottle. Dark red-brown color with tall, lasting head of pale pink foam. Aroma is sweet like canned cherry pie filling, but that’s not so bad, plus light cookie and faint cork/cellar. I don’t get the medicinal many people talk about and anyway I like cherry flavored stuff. Who doesn’t? Body is overly thick, verging on cloying sweetness, and yet finishing with an acrid note that is quite off-putting. Flavor notes of dusty cellar, light dirt, and gobs of sweet-tart cherries. Seems to get right to the point of what it’s supposed to be.

Pours a hazy red witha 2 finger creamy white head that has excellent retention. Aroma is of cherry Icee, Cherry Ludens, wheat and maybe a litttle actual sweet cherry. Flavor is better, super sweet cherry, slightly earthy wheat, mellow spicy and banana yeastinessa hint of lemon and some very slight funk. Way too sweet and lacking in complexity.

way too sweet tastes like a melted red slurpie! gross....and way way too sweet and just fucking wrong

Bottle from AlohaCs party. Pomegranite color. We debated what the smell was. My best description was Sucrets, the throat lozenges I used to take for a sore throat when I was a kid. The taste is sweet. Much better tasting than it smelled.

375mL bottle from PP bottle shop. $4.99 I think. Opened at alohaCs 2008 end of the year tasting. Smells like cherry juice, or slurpie, or Jello, or robitusson. Very sweet. The same very strong artificial cherry flavor/aroma that has spread to many many products in the world to hide other flavors. Still I liked it, but the drinkability is low.

Tastes and smells like slightly carbonated cough syrup with candy sugar added. Not sure this is a beer. Not nice. To be avoided unless you are in a hypoglycemic coma.

Side by side with kriek cuvee rene, brought by wetherel to sd north county holiday tasting. Pours deep purple with a bright white ring. Nose is like a cherry slurpy mixed with cherry robitussin. Taste is cloyingly sweet, way way way too sweet for what it should be.

Pours a deep burgundy red with almost some purple hues. Has a little fizzy pinkish rimming head. The aroma is a strong, sweet, and slightly medicinal cherry. A little bit of mineraly cough drop. The mineral flavor is there too. Some funk to it with a sort of bitter choke cherry flavor. A definite syrupy sweetness. Spritzy thin carbonation that finishes very clean.