Oud Beersel Oude Kriek

Brewed by Brouwerij Oud Beersel
Style: Lambic - Fruit
Beersel, Belgium

From a bottle--Poured a bright ruby red body with a small white, quickly dissipating head. Tart, sweet, sour cherry citrus nose with fizzy teeth. A faint presence of burnt chocolate or malts that was very slight. Cherubic balance of all I’d hoped for in a true Lambic Kriek. Yum!

Bottle. Pours dark magenta color with big, bubbly pink head. The aroma is assertive sour cherry, hints of soft cheese, damp basement, and some earth. The flavor is a nice earthy tartness with a robust cherry flavor behind it. There is some acidity, but it is kept in check by the strong cellar and earth flavors. Cheese notes are minimal, but come out in the aftertaste. Not bad at all.

Bottle Pours a light pink purple body with a 2 finger pink head that quickly dissolves to a lacing. Aroma is sour cherries, woodiness, and some sweet funkiness. Flavor is smooth cherries and some woodiness, very dry in the finish. Not really very sour or sweet. I think this needs 5-8 years.

bottle@the white horse. poxy champions league final was on , so i had the pub pretty much to mysef :-) I tend to drink this quite often since it is one of my favorites. never quite got round to rating it though. till now that is. thank you football. It’s a beauty to start with, personally, i like it in champagne glasses, which definitely brings out the full beauty of this very evenly murky ruby beer with it’s smooth finely bubbled salmon pink head. Smooth gorgeous nose of Morellos, not too tart and hardly any sharpness. Mouthwatering body. comfortably sour, very natural sour cherry flavours. very dry, with good funk and leather. it’s a pleasure drinking this one every time. Definitely a bathtub candidate :-)

A very beatiful beer - staggering ruby red. Nose and taste is all you could wish for in complexity; lots of horsedung, cobb webs, barnyard and fresh fruit. I opnly wish it was a little more sour.

when i first smelled the beer a sour cherrie smell whas present with a touch off sweetness , smelled lovely. the aperance whas red/brown with a small pinch off light-red. it poored without creating a lot off foam what left me the impression that it wasnt a sparkling beer. only comment is that i would liked a glass simular like rodenbach (http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:T7COktNTS ) tasted very sour butt still (like the smell) a sweet and dry ending , i never would have guessed that the alcohol whas 6,9 . overall its a fine lambic

375 ml bottle, 2004 bottling. Cork was seeping, bottle was on its side for the past four years. Cork self ejected with great force as soon as the cage was undone- Beautiful garnet red, smallish light pink head, bubbles streaming up the sides of the glass. Smells like oak bark, sour cherries, lemon zest, leather and tobacco. Taste is very cherry- sour, funky, dry. Very nice once in a while, will see how this changes in the next 5 years.

Thick deep red pour with pink head. Cherry nose. Flavor was much the same with big nose of fruit not too sour and sweet.