Kerel Kaishaku Ker-elle
VBDCK Brewery in Tielrode, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Collab with: Lambiek FabriekSour / Wild Beer - Flavoured Regular
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Score
7.01
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Alengrin (11609) reviewed Kerel Kaishaku Ker-elle from VBDCK Brewery 1 month ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Now here is something I did not see coming: a collab of two breweries I would not easily have associated with one another, in the form of a blend of Lambiek Fabriek kriek (sour cherry lambic) with Kerel Kaishaku (an unusual creation by VBCDK fermented with sake yeast)... Sold even at the local Delhaize supermarket in Lokeren (though I got mine through Huis van de Geuze). Medium thick, vaguely pinkish-tinged off-white, tiny-bubbled, shred-lacing head on a misty scarlet red robe with deep cardinal to fuchsia glow - a beautiful colour I must add, of a different shade of red than usual in a cherry lambic, but equally intense. Aroma of candied cherry as well as actual sour cherry, embedded in impressions of lychee, rosé wine, cranberry sauce, Kirr Royal, sake, rosewater, vermouth, fruit yoghurt, elderberry juice, sourdough, cold cooked rice but this is probably autosuggestion, rosehip. Fruity onset but far less tart than I was expecting - in fact even tilted to the sweet side, no doubt coming from the Kaishaku, hinting at faint banana, lychee, candied cherry and elderberry, even a touch of orange perhaps. Medium carb, very active but fine-bubbled, lambrusco-like with smooth, vinous body; sourish-sweet cherry effects 'diluted' by the Kaishaku are carried on top of it all to a lightly tannic finish, mildly tart much in the same way as a lambrusco or a sparkling rosé wine, with herbal, somewhat perfumey accents (rosehip, jasmin rice, rosewater); a 'friendly' but clear, warming, indeed sake-like alcohol glow ties it all together in the end, while this cherry flavour lingers - again not truly sour as one would expect from anything containing lambic, but nevertheless shining brightly in a kind of rosé-like sweet-tartness. Generally considerably sweeter than I was prepared for - I too expected a much stronger effect from the fruit lambic, so it is quite a surprising combo of flavours, I have to admit. This will probably not work well for those into actual lambic (cherry or other), but in all its gentle, almost 'feminine' power, I think it does an excellent job as a sparkling 'apéritif' of a very distinct and unique kind. Once I got the idea of dominance of lambic out of my head and viewed it as an apéritif beer, I was certainly able to appreciate this oddity...
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Kerel Kaishaku Ker-elle from VBDCK Brewery 1 month ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
Pink head, receding over veiled dark ruby to terra cotta beer; fine shards of lace. Sweet cherries, cherrysyrup, almonds, marzipan. Seems to be very sweet. In the mouth a more natural cherryflavour, if again with almond flavouring. Vanilly, cherrysweets. Bit slick, more than usual for a kriekenlambic. Good carbonation. A tad disappointing; I had expected more from a Lambiek Fabriek kriek, but the perfumey VBDCK Kaishaku is overpowering.