Lindemans Kriek

Dark red color with a pink head. Smells like cherry soda. Tastes like cherry soda. A little too syrupy and thick to be refreshing on a hot day.

This could be reproduced by adding some alcohol to cherry soda. I hardly see the point of going to all the trouble to brew it. It looks like red 40 was added. Apparently, there is cherry flavoring, but no real cherries. It is an overly sweet and tart mess. Not recommended.

Shared a bottle with my father on vacation. Poured a very dark red with a pinkish, fluffy head. The head dropped to about a quarter-inch the whole way down. Very strong cherry aroma. Excellent flavor of dark cherries with just the right amount of carbonation. Slightly tart but, not overly so. Very tasty.

Poured to a dark ruby red with thin pink head that lingered for awhil;e and left okay lacing. Nose was a tart cherry, combined with a hint of malty swettness. The mouthfeel wasa bit like the sour-sweet 1-2 punch of a Flemish Sour, though not as pronounced. Flavor followed the nose down the sweet cherry path, and the finish was dry and tangy. Not a bad Lambic.

Dark red with a pink head. The aroma has strong notes of marzipan and almonds – yummi... The flavour has sweetness and strong notes of marzipan, almonds and cherries, and the body is full and harmonic. It’s really nice!

Pours dark red, fairly dense pink head with decent retention. Very sweet, almost medicinal aroma of cherries or cherry-flavored candy. Cherry flavor is better balanced, offset by a very slight hint of sour wild yeast and hops. Mouthfeel is on the light side, carbonation sparkles on the tongue quite pleasantly for the style. Maybe not my favorite Lindemans offering but quite pleasant.

Bottle 3.5 ABV. Creamy pink excellent fully lasting head. Red wonderfull colour. Powerfull cherry aroma. Powerfull sweet cherry flavor, lots of marcipane. Average nice finish. Syruply palate. Great stuff.

This is not a typical beer, and shouldn’t be judged as if it were. There was a deep aroma of sour cherries on the cork, which prevailed as the beer was poured. The color was brilliant red, with a pink head. The taste was very cherry; quite sweet, yet a bit sour at the same time (if that makes any sense). Mouthfeel was very much like champagne. In fact, if you didn’t know what this was, you might mistake it for a cherry champagne (at least I would). Not the sort of beer you would want to drink in quantity. It would be a wonderful beer to have with real black forest cake.