Oud Beersel Oude Kriek

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

$6 12oz? bottle from Holiday Wine Cellar. Best before Jan 14, 2026. (Don’t drink on Jan 15th, 2026!) Left in the freezer too long, and the wire cage snapped, and cork came off. Started to ooze out of the bottle, then the liquid froze on the top forming a natural cap. Removed the ice cap, and poured into my glass. About a third of the liquid came out, the rest was frozen. Big frothy small/medium bubble head, that dies to small wisps on the surface. Nice deep cloudy red color. Nice sour cherry pie aroma. Some musty basement. Very nice to smell. The cherry seems to overpower the subtly funky sour aromas. Great aroma. Taste has a nice tart cherry bite, but low cherry sweetness. A little citrus zing to the finish. Very flavor charged. Easy to drink slowly. All that flavor wants a mild cheese accompanyment, but also great on it’s own.

Pours luminous and red, so glassy as to seem filtered, with a rose-tinted white head. Brilliantly pure lambic aroma of pressed cherry juice, horseblanket and wet leather, pungent and pulsing warmly with blue cheese. It presents itself somewhat coldly when tasted; distant, mild, and lilting. Prominent tones are flower petals, aired out cherry pits, and minerals; tainted with an especially odd chlorine flourish within a disposition that’s altogether too clean. Swiftly dry with apple cider, warm fruit, and some emasculated funk. Lemon juice and softly medicinal suggestions before the finish; the yeast presence is strange. Light bodied, relaxed and unimposing in the mouth, so much so that it seems almost trite. Bland cherry sweetness at the end. Sadly quieted and simply too cautious, lacking the wild nuances and bold character that makes lambic so exciting and alive.

October 2004 bottle

Tart aging fruits, definately showing some early development. Dulling nose with a hint of bitterness. Mid palate shows a yeasty Champagne-like character that carries through to the finish. Hard to assess right now given the primary fruit is fading but structurally very sound.

beautiful clear pink amber with a great lite pink head that slowly dissapears. aroma funky sour cherry. very deep very complex....vanilla hints of apple maybe...my discription doesnt do it justice. very tart dry sour cherry flavor with a with a lovely sweet vanilla backdrop and just a hint of funk. tart sour very dry cherry finish with a hint of vanilla. medium body with a great lively mouthfeel. overall just a great beer.

Bottle sampled.Pours cherry red with a light pink head. Tart aroma of sour cherries, oak, and sweet malt. Flavor is very dry and tart with sweet and sour cherries and a dry finish.

Pours like a light sugar free cherry soda, fruit and vinegar on the nose, sour tart on the touge with some cherry that comes out in the finish. Tasty beer, I am enjoying it a lot.

Great balance of flavors in this well-constructed lambic. Mellow yet poignantly sour cherry too.

Bottle purchased @ Pizza Port. Poured as a violent red wine, except, it had a fizzy creation of foam and it continued to bubble like some kind of chemistry experiment. Strangely enough, the aroma was similar to a red wine with a robust and sweet meets tart fruit olfaction that had me intrigued as how the flavor would portray this lambic. On first sip, I felt a lively presence of carbonation and fizz and then it sunk in immediately, a flavor of sour and tart fruit with and a very minor after tone of sweetness. Perhaps a note of sour grape and unripe cherries is the best way I could sum up the fruity essence of this kriek.