Lindemans Kriek

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

Bottled (3.5%). A deep red verging on brown coloured ber witha short-lived pinky white coloured head. The aroma is pure black cherries, skin, stones and pulp. The taste is also cherries but rather sweet and syrupy. Tastes way too sweet to qualify as a lambic, but as a weak in alcohol fruit beer it works and isn’t that what we should rate it as? So much better than some of the nasty fruit beers doing the rounds at the moment like Huyghe Strawberry Fruli. Very drinkable.

poured a beautiful dark red color with a nice fluffy pink head that dissipated quickly leaving little lacing. aromas consisted of black cherry and licorice. flavor was ripe sweet cherry with a nice tart aftertaste. very pleased. will defintely purchase again even though it’s a bit pricey (about $5 for a 12oz. bottle).

Poured cherry red with a thin reddish head. Smelled cherry licorice in the aroma. After admiring it for a while, I sipped it to discover not only cherry but a subtle hint of sourness. Even though it is in a different category, I was reminded of the New Glarus Belgian Red. Very pleasant and easy to drink.

Clear red colour with small, pink sparkling head. Very strong sweet cherry aroma. Sweet and sugary cherry flavor. Medium-bodied, lots of sugar but bearable with balanced carbonation. A sweet, but quite pleasant kriek.

Draught. Dark red with a minor white head. The aroma is sweet consisting of cherries. The tflavour is not surprisingly sweet with cherries and has a pleasant aftertaste.

Dark reddish hue, average pink head. Sweet and sour aroma, cherry, sourness, some bread. Sweet flavour, some light sourness. Sweet and light citric finish. Easy to drink, but not as overwhelming sour as most commercial Krieks.

Here I came again, on hands and knees, crawling back to the fruity Lindeman Lambics. This occasion was a little different though. The last two times we squared off I was the definitive loser, caught with colored foams on my lips, stretched wide in a massive grin. This time, with the Kriek, perhaps in the bloodlust of battle my worthy, sanguine colored foe lost his sense of martial style and went excessively sweet. You see, this cherry flavored lambic is good and sweet, but too much so. It is a deluge of cherry flavor that cloys the purpose of the beer. Every sip reminded me either of cherry pop-tarts, or those suckers of old, the cherry dum-dums I got for free at the bank. They were good then, but that was back when I was a young stripling and had a temporary immunity to diabetes. That’s when my goal was to make sure my blood had more sugar granules than platelets. But now I’m looking for a little moderation, and that’s where the Kriek fails. But otherwise it has a very fine look and smell that contribute to the lucid presentation of a fine but excessively sweet Kriek. Looks like I’ll be sticking to the Framboise and the Peche come time for the “girly beers”.

Pours a deep, purplish red in color with a lavender-like head. Aroma is strong cherry with a dose of bready yeast. Flavor is sweet and tart; malty with a strong dark cherry taste and a lambic sourness; the finish is earthy and citric. Nice ... far superior to the framboise, in my opinion. Very refreshing.