Oud Beersel Oude Kriek

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

[Shared with Peter and Jens at the bænk.] A real lambic fruit of oude character. True sourness and grapenotes in the kriekflavor. Hardly highdrinkable caused by the massive sourness, but it’s the best at that. You can drink it for hours, because you’ll never find it too sweet!

Quality traditional kriek. Very tart initially, but steadily gets more earthy/cherrypit-y.

This stuff isn’t for everybody. It’s wild and uncontrolled, and you have to prepare to drink it. Cherries, fizz and wild, bracing notes of lambic.

Maybe I’ve been greatly mislead, but what is this disaster? Was I spoiled by "artificially sweetened" lambics in recent tastings that I was fooled about what this style really delivers? Am I growing a pair of D cup breasts or what? Can’t say that I enjoyed this in any way.. Ended up as a drain pour.

Bottle shared with GregClow, Jerc, and Blankboy, Blankboy’s bottle. Dark rusty red, small bubbly pink head - looks great. Seriously funky aroma - garbage - then nice tart cherry. Taste - ok - mild tartness,a little watery. Acidic/vinegar - too much for my liking. Not great - can’t say I enjoyed it all that much.

My bottle (375ml) shared with GregClow, jerc & tupalev -- courtesy of SecretSanta 2006. Pours a murky dark pink-red with a fluffy light-pink head. Nice aroma of tart cherries, wood, spices and sweet malt. Dry flavour of tart cherries (though not as much as I expected), yeast, light spices and sweet malt. Medium bodied. Pretty good, not mindblowing but quite enjoyable.

Bottle shared with jerc, blankboy and tupalev - blankboy’s bottle. Hazy ruby-rose colour with a small pink head. Aroma is funky, musty, cheesy with note of sour cherry, cough syrup and old books. Body is a touch thinner than expected. Flavour is very dry and tart and dusty, but not as aggressively mouth-puckering as I’d expected. As jerc notes, is a fairly accessible lambic - at least in the flavour - but still a very good one.

Bottle from Flaco Alto. Thanks!
Pours a lush, semi-viscous raspberry brown with a slight pink head that measures roughly two fingers at its peak. Nice aromas of spring spices; plenty of floral notes and sour fruits (cranberry being the dominant fruit, followed by a slight cherry) as well. Mouth-puckering sour; tons of acidity intermingled with cranberry, muted lemon juice, raspberry, and a touch of orange. I ain’t kiddin’ when I say this sucker is sour. Whew! Palate is nice. I’ll struggle to finish the bottle (due to the sourness, not the taste), so I think one is enough for awhile. But I’d definitely drink more in the future.