 bierkoning (5987), La Tropica, Netherlands
Jan 2, 2008 Updated: Feb 29, 200875 cl bottle. Maraschino cherries aroma with mint. Sweet, sugary, almost syrupy cherry flavor. Marzipan. Sweet indeed, but somewhat vinous and liquor-like. Some lemony sourness. A bit too sweet, but actually quite nice.
Goodgrief (1144), Middletown, Delaware, USA
Jan 1, 2008 Jan. 2006 - I don’t really like fruity beers. They should either taste like beer with just a TAD of fruit or be so fruity that you can barely tell that it is a beer. This fell in the latter category. Aroma and flavor was like fizzy cherry soda, maybe a touch of wheat thrown in.
RCL (1443), Waltham, Massachusetts, USA
Dec 31, 2007 Pure cherry aroma and flavor. Like a glass of cherry pie, with hints of the stone in the aroma. Pretty much just like delicious, delicious cherry juice.
Haslinger (640), Syracuse, New York, USA
Dec 30, 2007 Updated: Jul 26, 2008Very sweet, a great fruit beer. Definitely would buy again but not to drink by myself much too sweet and should be shared. Girls like this beer much more than any other I have ever seen.Would buy again for sure
nimbleprop (819), SouthWest, Washington, Washington DC, USA
Dec 30, 2007 I was so pumped to try this, I had it in the cellar less than a day before I gave myself an excuse to open this gem. Pours a translucent, nearly opaque, deep ruby color with a foamy white head that quickly disappears. Aroma is of sour fruits, sugar, candy, life savers. Flavor is all tart fruit, rasberry, cherry, sweet, sour, lemon. My only complaint would be that I expected more beer flavor, more malt please? Also, the Hallertau hops are tough to notice until the very end when you get some hop bitterness around the mouth. Finish is great, goes down very easy and it’s smooth. This beer is clearly about the fruit, but the cherries aren’t so sweet you feel like you’re drinking KoolAid. The fruit is subtle, as subtle as you can get from a fruit beer. Great beer, so unique but also very drinkable. Too bad I had to have a friend pack it in their suitcase and fly it back from Wisconsin to DC for me.
cblado (146), Wisconsin, USA
Dec 25, 2007 Simply delicious. Not as immediate as other fruit beers, New Glarus Raspberry Tart for example. But that’s why it works so well, the tart cherry flavor sneaks up on you midway through. Has a distinct hoppy character too, which works perfectly with the fruitiness. A complex beer. Wow.
GregClow (2493), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Dec 24, 2007 Bottle shared with jerc & mabel - my bottle obtained from HogTownHarry. Hazy orangey-red with a wispy pink head. Aroma reminded me of cherry cough syrup at first, and my wife smelled cherry Life Savers - but once it set for a few minutes, we all agreed that it smelled like a fresh baked and delicious cherry pie. Same with the flavour - a bit medicinal at first, but then the cherry pie notes kicked in... mmmm, this is damn good!
badbeer (432), Iowa, USA
Dec 23, 2007 Poured a red-brown color with white head that had little lacing. Smell is of tart cherries. Taste is full of cherries, very tart, as it warms it even started to taste like a cherry cobbler with a bit of yeasty breadlike flavors coming through. Mouthfeel was medium bodied with a medium carbonation. Beer was quite drinkable, and I can’t wait to have more.
Edited from: 4.5, 4, 5, 4, 4
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