Lindemans Kriek

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

Great dark cherry color. Bold cherry taste could use a bit more carbination. 12 oz is just to much. It gets to sweet after 1/2 a glass.

Cold 12oz bottle: Pours a dark cherry color with a pink head that mostly dissolves. Aroma is sublimely cherry and sweet. Lightly fizzy on the tongue. Taste is of cherry and quite sweet, with some sour notes. Lovely!

Loaded with cherries. Cherry red with a nice pinkish head. I will say this beer is slightly synthetic. Not what I would call a true Lambic. Very sweet and dominant of cherries. Underneath lies a slight oak tartness. had this been unsweetened it would have been much better. From what I gather this beer used to be this way. Mt first rating was 2.5. The second tasting is a 3.5

This is fruit beer at it’s very best, real taste, no bitterness, the only down side for me is the sweetness it is a little to much.

(Bottle BB 07/12/07; AVB 3.5%) Aroma of sweet cherries. Ruby red colour, bright and small, reddish, fully diminishing head with a hint of lacing. Cherry, sweet (initial), slightly sour (finish) and slightly wooden (cherry stones?) flavour. Medium-bodied, soft carbonated, slightly dry and slightly sticky palate. Very good lambic! 22/09/06 (original rating was 6/3/7/3/13)

color was a deep red, with a frothy pink head. smelled like cherries and not much else. mouthfeel.. a little bit syrupy. tasted mostly like "robitussen", my friend said; he wasn’t too far off-course. although it has "real cherries" , the cherry flavor was a lot more artificial and oversweetened than i was expecting - while new glarus belgian red is heavy on the cherry flavor, it is a lot more like drinking real cherry juice than this was; this was like sucking on cherry candy while tasting a small bit of lambic. behind all the sugar and cherry flavor was a bit of a woody, funky taste, with a tiny bit of tartness, but not enough to balance things out. i guess it’s a good way to get people trying lambics, especially because it doesn’t scare off people as easily (my first lambic was a lindeman’s framboise before i knew what lambic was), but i won’t be drinking this one again.

Bottled. It had the color of dark cranberry juice, and a small, frothy, pinky/ purple head. The aroma was straight- up Luden’s Cherry Cough Drops. Very sweet and one- dimensional. The flavor was similiar, but with a little added acidic tartness. More like an alcho-pop than any beer I’ve had.

I actually enjoyed this. Pours a bright cherry red. Smell of strong sweet cherries. Tastes like cherries... Imagine that!!! Very sweet dark cherry flavor, which was good until it reminded me of cough syrup. Good beer except for that medicine flavor.