Echt Kriekenbier

Verhaeghe in Vichte, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪

Flemish Red / Bruin Regular

Score

6.94

ABV: 6.8%

IBU: -

Ticks: 167

"Echt Kriekenbier (real cherry beer)" is, as the name suggests, a cherry beer that is manufactured with only the real fruit of cherries instead of with flavor enhancers or extracts of cherries. The fruit is sourced from the region around Sint-Truiden in Limburg (Belgium). Unlike the most famous fruit beers is the basic beer of the "real cherry beer" not a Lambic but a West-Flemish red-brown ale aged in oak wood. About mid-July at the picking, the Northern cherries are brought in at the brewery and laid in on the base beer. Because the taste of the cherry fruit varies from year to year and this according to the number of hours of sunshine or rain, the kriekenbier at its final composition is blended with cherry beer from the year before and two-year old cherry beer. This is intented to have a a more constant taste of the "real cherry beer" over the years.

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theplanck (7492) reviewed Echt Kriekenbier from Verhaeghe 6 years ago

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

A really fruity version, and sweet. But the sour almost balances it, A nice sipping beer. Still overall is quite nice. online belgian beer factory

Tried on 15 Aug 2019 at 19:10

Marduk (26455) ticked Echt Kriekenbier from Verhaeghe 7 years ago

Tried on 06 Mar 2019 at 15:59

7.2

Sigmund (14673) reviewed Echt Kriekenbier from Verhaeghe 7 years ago

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

330 ml bottle, from Vinmonopolet, Nettbutikken. ABV is 6.8%. Clear deep red colour, moderate to small off-white / pinkish head. Strong aroma of sour cherries, brettanomyces / farmhouse and oak. Sour and medium sweet flavour with cherries galore, some brett and oak.

Tried from Bottle on 05 Mar 2019 at 02:37

7.1

graziano85 (804) reviewed Echt Kriekenbier from Verhaeghe 7 years ago

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle. Rubin color, with a medium pinkish head. Aroma is fruity, with sweetness, some little sourness, cherry notes. Taste is nice, cherry, not too sweet at all, but it’s missing some sourness. Nice.

Tried from Bottle on 03 Jan 2019 at 14:13

6.8

sjogro (11784) reviewed Echt Kriekenbier from Verhaeghe 7 years ago

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle in Bram’s garden. Courtesy of Bram! Murky brownish purple and offwhite head. Sweet cooked cherries, sour cherries, almonds. Moderate sweet and bitter, earthy and light sour. Medium body and soft carbonation.

Tried from Bottle on 19 Oct 2018 at 14:23

7.2

thebrewsader (2760) reviewed Echt Kriekenbier from Verhaeghe 7 years ago

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle into a teku showing moderately filtered cherry red with sparse white foam. The nose shows pronounced notes of sweet forward cherries. The palate is well carbonated and light bodied. Moderately sweet cherries throughout with a strong tartness with hints of cinnamon and baking spice.

Tried from Bottle on 30 Jun 2018 at 12:37

Tom (2084) ticked Echt Kriekenbier from Verhaeghe 7 years ago

Imported from untappd on 02-05-2020

Tried from Bottle on 06 May 2018 at 13:31

6.6

Rennat42 (5622) reviewed Echt Kriekenbier from Verhaeghe 7 years ago

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

(Thanks, Jim "Ozzy70") Bottle. A- Vinegar, cherry. A- Dark red color, dark liquid, off white head. T- Vinegar, cherry, funk, tart, sour, oak. P- Medium body, average texture, medium carbonation, slightly astringent finish, O- Alright, but doesn't quite meet the standards of other beers I've had from Verhaeghe. Aroma is full of basalmic vinegar and cherry juice but taste has a fair amount of funk, oak, and astringency to it.

Tried from Bottle on 14 Apr 2018 at 17:04

7.8

Fules (2631) reviewed Echt Kriekenbier from Verhaeghe 7 years ago

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Kicsi, villámgyorsan elillanó hab, rubinvörös szín. Meggyes, savanykás, vadélesztős illat. Fanyar, savanykás, meggyes ízek, vadélesztős, animális alapokon. Közepesen testes, enyhén szénsavas, alig kesernyés. Szuper meggyes sör, amiben határozottan jelen vannak a vadélesztős vonások.

Tried on 07 Apr 2018 at 04:56

6.9

nathanvc (7053) reviewed Echt Kriekenbier from Verhaeghe 8 years ago

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

At 't Poatersgat, Bruges. Shared with Anke.
Pours clear dark red/brown with a thin, pinkish head. The aroma contains sweet cherry, marzipan, sugar, strawberry, red candy, hint of vinegar. It tastes medium fruity sweet and light to medium fruity/funky sour; bit tart, woody finish. Medium body, slick texture, fizzy carbonation. Lovely!

Tried from Can on 19 Feb 2018 at 12:12

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