Oud Beersel Oude Kriek

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

375 ml bottle poured a hazy rusty red with a large long lasting pink head. Aromas of sour cherries, lemon, and some musty barnyard. Palate was light, crisp and dry. Flavors starts out tart and sour with a mellow cherry flavor and finishs on a tart dry note.

Ah, what a gorgeous way to familiarize myself with the sweeter side of beer. The Oude Kriek takes a cautious hand to what I call “dessert beers” by being more tart than sweet, and avoiding the terrible epithets of “soda” or “pop”. The cap of the Oude Kriek is a white foam marked by a slight pink tinge like a conch shell, and the delicious beverage underneath is the color of a watermelon’s core. Luscious sour apples, champagne and grapes all twist together to make this beer smell like a refined champagne, or even a Flemish Sour Ale. The beer performs a caustic tart melody on the tongue, and soothes the injured palate with lingering green apples and sour cherries. There’s also a watery quality to this Lambic, but the intense tartness keeps your salivary glands in high gear. Beware the drowning sensation, which is all the more disgusting since it is your own saliva flooding your palate. Off the subject of bodily fluids, I think this beer would be amazing to drink after a bout of good news. Imagine getting into a top-notch country club, or finding the woman (man) of your dreams, or absolutely crushing somebody in a hard fought video game, then pulling out the cork on a spring timey, refreshing Oude Kriek. Oh yes, that’s victory; the delicious taste of tart fruits. Quite the incentive for success.

bottle. Best before 11.12.2022. the cork was pretty difficult to get out of this beast! pours a hazy reddish-brown colour with a small short-lasting white/pink head. aroma is full of earthiness, wheat, tart cherry juice, lemon, and a whole lot of musty funk in the background. mild spritzy carbonation. starts out with dirty earth flavours and leads into a puckering lemon tartness. bone dry and refreshing! excellent.

Bottle. Dark pink/brown beer with a pinkish head. Dusty, fruity aroma. Tart, cherry flavor with lots of dusty earthiness. Clensing.

Nice raspberry color with a white head. Very sour! Very Lambic! Very flavorful, sweatsocks with a cherry/green apple finish. Tastes similar to Boston Beerworks Cherry Bomb in some ways.

Maroon with fluffy pink head. Lots of cherry in the aroma, like a Shasta Black Cherry soda. Not as much on the flavor, which got progressively better as it warmed, by taking off the vinegar edge.

Not my favorite lambic, pours out pinkish cloudy with a big bubbly head that is also pink. Pink just doesnt seem so much like what I am looking for in a beeer, but here it is. Aroma of sour cherry vingegar, if there was such a thing. Flavor is sour, with more of that funk that is hard to explain but so common in these lambic sour brews.

Pours a cloudy red color with a medium bubbly pink head standing proudly on top of it, the head leaves a nice coat of lace on the glass. Excellent aroma of dusty, sour cherries with mild cheese. Excellent flavor of sour cherries with mild cheese and a good dose of acidity. The body is light with a very dusty mouthfeel ans strong carbonation. As with the Oud Beersel Oude Gueuze the kriek is just right, nicely balances and very well-made, I would drink this all day.