Oude Kriek
(has 44 batches)
Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen in Lot, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Lambic Style - Kriek Regular|
Score
7.91
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3 Fonteinen Oude Kriek is the result of macerating hand-picked whole sour cherries on young lambic for at least four months, in a proportion of one kilogram of fruit per litre of lambic. The kriek lambic is then blended again with more young lambic to obtain a minimum intensity of 35% fruit, and is bottled immediately afterwards. These bottles are then stored in our cellars for at least five months so that the kriek lambic can develop into a beautiful, traditional, and refined Oude Kriek. With a pleasant tartness and organic notes of almond and cinnamon as it warms in the glass, 3 Fonteinen Oude Kriek, will age perfectly but may lose some of the vibrant red colours and forest fruit aromas. This unfiltered and unpasteurised lambic is all-natural with no artificial juices, syrups, or sugars added. Traditional Lambic is living, cultural heritage rooted in the Zenne valley!
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8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle at home in Hackney - pretty sure I got this from 3F online. Bottled in 2017. Faintly cloudy red-pink with a small, foamy white head. Lightly sweet, fairly dry, a little earthy, some leathery and tart cherries, decent acidity, a little earth and wood. Tart and quenching finish but not overbearing, more tangy cherries, a little zippy lemon. Great stuff.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Oct 2024
at 21:25
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 7
Overall 8.5
375ml corked and caged green bottle. 6.8% abv. (Blend no. 35, season 19/20). Pours a cloudy dark ruby red with a thin, fizzy, short lived, pink head that fully dissipates. Aroma of pale malt, cherry, red wine, funky yeast, oak and floral hops. Sweet fruity flavour of pale malt, cherry, lemon, vinegar, oak and floral hops in a dry, acidic, sour finish. Medium body with a watery texture and soft carbonation. Lots of complexity. Excellent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Aug 2024
at 04:38
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 8.5
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle from a trade. Thanks Matt! Pours a mostly clear ruby with light orange, amber highlights and a small head that dissipates quickly. Lovely notes of cherry skin, stone and tart cherry flesh with oak, must and cobwebs all present. Rich tart cherry notes on the palate with lingering fruit flesh and skin notes. Drying finish. Stellar.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Jan 2024
at 02:22
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
0,375l bottle at home. Bottled 10.02.2022. deep red color, small pink head. smells cherries, cherry pits, marzipan, bit grassy, bit funky, light sewer notes. nice smell. full body, soft carbonation. tastes cherry notes, cherry pits, lactic, grassy, earthy, bit peppery, leathery, not very juicy. finishes dry and medium sour with notes of pepper, cherry notes and some leathery notes. good stuff overall, rather on the dry / peppery side.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Aug 2023
at 14:46
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 8.5
0,75l bottle at home. Bottled 26.11.2020. deep red color, small white head. smells funky, cherry notes, cherry pits, earthy, grassy. nice to very nice smell. full body, soft carbonation. tastes citric, salty, cherry notes, peppery, grassy, earthy. finishes dry, salty and lightly sour with notes of salt, citrus and peppery notes. I rather like this one, but it tastes rather heavily salted. Not sure if that is just my perception, or its actually a thing. Definitly takes away from the usual 3f lactic fruit sourness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Jul 2023
at 15:02