Kriek
Brouwerij F. Boon in Lembeek, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Lambic Style - Kriek Regular|
Score
6.84
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For this speciality, we use old and young lambic beer that has aged in our oak casks. When the lambic is 6 months old, we add 25% black cherries. This provokes the second fermentation. We then clarify, filter and bottle it.
The cherries and young lambic create a red beer that is both natural and fresh, with an absolutely unforgettable sweet and sour taste. This is kriek as it should be, with nothing but real cherries and lambic. There is no place for artificial colourings or flavourings.
The cherries and young lambic create a red beer that is both natural and fresh, with an absolutely unforgettable sweet and sour taste. This is kriek as it should be, with nothing but real cherries and lambic. There is no place for artificial colourings or flavourings.
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6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Poured from 375mL bottle (2008 vintage; w/ the brewnosers). Hazy brownish red with extremely minimal white head. Soft cherry, mild tartness, a bit old, but still holds up okay.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Aug 2022
at 01:36
6/10
Tried
from Draft
on 23 Jul 2022
at 18:43
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Shared with Tania, who likes these sweet ones. Red with a thin, frothy white head. Cherry cider aroma. Taste is mildly sweet to sweet with slight tartness and slight warmth at the finish. Fresh, refreshing feel. Decent.
Tried
on 29 Jun 2022
at 16:36
6.8/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 6.5
Texture 7
Overall 7
Bottle 37.5cl. corked & caged 2018 edition (bbd 3/2023), @home poured into a tumbler. Clear amber brown, small fizzy pink head, mostly diminishing, some lacing. Syrup aroma, sweet and sour cherries, a bit of wood. Taste mild sweet and sour, cherries, touch of wood, candy sugar. Medium body, sticky texture, soft carbonation, strong sweet and mild sourish aftertaste, touch of wood, quite sugary, refreshing, easy to drink, nice when you like a sweeter kriek.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 May 2022
at 14:26
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
28 February 2022. At Oud Clooster, Ghent. Cheers to Maarten, Nicolas & Ian!
Vintage 2020. Hazy red, small, foamy, pinkish head. Aroma of cherry, raspberry, sour cream, yoghurt, malt vinegar, wheat. Taste has sweet-sour cherry & raspberry in a doughy-wheaty malt body, softly lactic and sour-creamy. Tart, cherry-like finish, no hops, some cream and woodiness. Medium body, creamy texture, soft carbonation. Elegant and refreshing.
Vintage 2020. Hazy red, small, foamy, pinkish head. Aroma of cherry, raspberry, sour cream, yoghurt, malt vinegar, wheat. Taste has sweet-sour cherry & raspberry in a doughy-wheaty malt body, softly lactic and sour-creamy. Tart, cherry-like finish, no hops, some cream and woodiness. Medium body, creamy texture, soft carbonation. Elegant and refreshing.
Tried
on 05 Apr 2022
at 14:36
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle. Medium dark red, moderate thin head. Nose is super cherry with a natural flavor, very juicy. The flavor is not as powerful as others which have artificial cherry flavors, and I'm okay with that. Complexity is not so high; mainly a smooth cherry juice bomb with a hint of hop bitterness at the end. Very tasty marriage of fruit and beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Mar 2022
at 21:48
7/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Jan 2022
at 20:34
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Keg at The Rusty Bucket, Eltham. Deep red pour with a pink head. Black cherry yoghurt, blueberry, cherry bakewell aromas. Sweet cherry action in the taste with all rhe aforementioned aromas in there too. Does the job.
Tried
on 09 Jan 2022
at 11:00
7/10
2020. Good nuff
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Dec 2021
at 21:54
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Pours a clear crimson-brown colour, with a bubbly pink head and a lovely sweet cherry aroma. The mouthfeel is creamy and fizzy, it's a very fruity little number, cherries and a touch of vanilla going on, with some underlying malt character bulking it out a little and a dry, tart finish
Tried
from Bottle
from
Tesco Supermarket (Various locations)
on 26 Nov 2021
at 18:45