Kriek

Bottle. Pours clear strawberry jam red with airy light reddish head. Clear vinous aroma with mild, sweetish notes of cherries. Vinous and mildly sweetish flavour of cherry jam. Very mild finish. A little watery and unpretentious but acceptable.

Draught at Vooruit, Gent. Red colour with a large pink head. Aroma is sour cherry. Flavour is cherries. A bit sweet.

Rood met witte kraag Aroma van krieken en vlierbessen Smaken zijn fruitig, krieken en vlierbessen minder dan de xtreme Er zijn betere krieken

Flaske delt med Kitty på hytta: enkle syrlighet kombinert med sødme og bitterhet fra kirsebær. En behagelig og ukomplisert avslutning på kvelden.

Bouteille: Hazy, reddish-amber coloured, persisting white head with a pinkish sheen, almondy sweet cherries in the delicate mouldy-sourish nose; mild sourish-sweet flavour, light bodied; kind of artificial sweet fruity finish with a delicate tartness in the aftertaste. Not really bad, still a Kriek for beginners…

Clear red colour, white head. Sweet cherry aroma, cherry and malts. Sweet flavour, cherry syrup, flavourings. Grenadine syrup. Finish sweet, cherry, light funk.
(from 37.5 cL bottle @ home)

Aroma: Obviously a lot of cherry with notes of crystallized fruits and jelly bean. Also found some ether notes. Smells like a fruit salad. Appearance: Clear red with a thick rocky head lasting a long moment. Marvelous head sticking a lot to glass, leaving a wonderful lacing. Taste: Attack is all fruit, cherry, with a strong acidity somehow mitigated by the presence of the fruits. We can also find some light malt accents like brown sugar and caramel. Absence of bitterness. It’s like a very fruity cider. Very refreshing though, but you have to like the extreme acidity of lambics. For myself, this is the very first one I was able to drink all the bottle.

Ruby red light head. Fades fast Tart fake cherry syrup Too sweet. Not very sour fake and pretty weak

On tap at Toronado. The aroma is almost exclusively cherries. I wish there was more complexity, but other than the cherries there is just a bit of tartness. There is no funkiness. Pours a very clear bright red with a punk head that recedes quickly leaving very good lacing. Flavor is sweet with lots of cherry flavor. Mid palate there is some tartness an a hint of oak in the finish. Unfortunately cherry syrup overwhelms. No funkiness and the acidity is light and not complex. Mouthfeel is medium low bodies with medium carbonation. A bit sticky sweet compared to what I would expect. Low alcohol warmth and no astringency. Overall this just isn't my thing. I want krieks to be funky and acidic not sweet. The cherry flavor is nice, but that's about the only positive to this beer. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone