Oud Beersel Oude Kriek

Saved for a special occasion - just booked my honeymoon. Perfect uncorking - the cork wanted to come out. Great looking ruby body with light amber highlights and a very thin and fast dying pink head. The aroma is heavenly; Perfect sour cherries, definitely mouth watering. Sweet aroma, some earthiness, a little malt comes through, but the ripe and sour cherries is amazing. Medium-bodied; Effervescent feel with the sour cherries, malt and a good amount of sweetness lingering behind. Aftertaste shows some complexity - yeast, grassiness, bitterness and yes the sugar and sourness is still here. Overall, a great lambic, definitely one to sample! Not my favourite lambic, but definitely worth trying again! I sampled this 37.5 cL bottle purchased from Beer Mania in Bruxelles, Belgium on 17-November-2008, sampled at home in Washington on 02-April-2009.

Date: 15/1/09 Beer info: Bottled in brown 375ml corked bottle 6.5% abv BB 27 06 2027 Sampling Notes: Served chilled in pilsner glass. Deep murky purple-ish maroon body with tightly packed pink-tinged cream atop. Plenty of complex funk straightup on the nose; hard cheese and natural yoghurt, hay, woody spice, with a sour cherry element hinting almond-like undertones. Lively carbonation, quite smooth and creamy, light bodied, dry with an excellent tart acidity that is in great balance with the rest of the body. Unbelievably complex body; sour cherries seem an obvious description but that has complexities within itself. Marzipan, cinamon spice, malt vinegar, natural yoghurt, blue cheese, vinous dark berries. Excellent full fruit flavour, finishes with a lovely quenching acidity that lingers and entices. This is a bloody good fruit beer, possibly the best i’ve ever tried!

really not my cup of tea. For what it is I think it’s quite good, but overall I just don’t like it. vinegary with extremely sour cherry flavors. nice sweet cherry aftertaste.

Dark pink with a fluffy pink head. It smells good, sour, cherries, and a little bit of manure! The taste was not too heavy on the cherry, some sourness, a little bit of acidity this was cool. I’ll be interested to try their framboise and gueuze. Mmm gueuze. Serving type: bottle Reviewed on: 09-07-2008 04:10:10

Ruby color with a small white head. Aroma is of tart cherries. Taste is sour with a hint of cherry sweetness. Dry.

Bottle... Poured ruby with a pink head. Aroma of grenadine and wild yeast. Not as dry and tart as I would have thought. Smooth palate with a dominant black cherry and grenadine flavor. The alcohol played like medicine that was followed by a floral and tangy finish.

375 ml bottle from Plaza Liquors - Pours a deep red color with a one finger thick pink head. Very little lacing. Aroma is tart cherry with a hint of vinegar. Flavor is a very tart and bitter cherry. Medium body. A decent beer, but not my cup of tea.

Bottle, Red Zebra, Derby. Poured a vivid ruby red with a slight haze and a throbbing pinky head....Ooer missus. Cherry tree in a damp barnyard aroma. Perfectly sour flavour that isn’t smothered in cherry. Dry woody finish. All the elements here equal a fine representation of the style. Qualitee all round.