Coolship Cerise
Allagash Brewing Company in Portland, Maine, United States 🇺🇸
Lambic Style - Kriek Rotating|
Score
7.67
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Coolship Cerise’s tart, dry profile is rounded out by notes of fresh-picked cherry, pie spice, oak, and a hint of apricot. To make this beer, we fill our coolship—a large, shallow pan-like brewing vessel—with unfermented wort that gathers wild yeast as it cools. The beer then ferments and develops its flavor in oak wine barrels for up to two years before we add 100 pounds, per barrel, of locally grown Montmorency and Balaton cherries. We hope you enjoy this balanced, crisp, and complex taste of Maine.
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8/10
Tried
on 24 May 2016
at 13:07
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
375 ml bottle @ Nacht van de Grote Dorst 2016. Unclear, pale pink body with a moderate sized and fast disappearing off-white head. Quite light in aroma, funky, acidic, wood, sour cherry and lemon. Flavor is funky with Brett, barnyard, wood, lemon, sour cherry and a bit spicy. Relatively mild in flavor and I found the cherry flavor almost in the background compared with the typical Belgium Kriek that actually often can be too much. Normally I prefer my Kriek a bit matured to let the cherry flavor settle a bit, this one has still the young, tartness in combination with a bit more modest cherry flavor. A bit unusually but I like it. Fine balanced body and quite smooth in aftertaste.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 May 2016
at 15:12
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Trübes orange goldenes Bier mit einer geringen weißen schaumkrone. Geruch mild säuerlich, rote Früchte. Geschmack sehr sauer, grapefruit, rote Beeren, gut.
Tried
on 22 Apr 2016
at 15:02
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Pale pinkish color with small head. Aroma is cherry yoghurt, wood. Taste is cherry, wood, has some Schaerbeekse feeling in there, cherry stone, but also a lot of yoghurt. High carbonation. Good.
Tried
on 22 Apr 2016
at 13:55
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle. Pours a hazy ruby orange with no head. The aroma is strong funk, cherry skin, wood, spice, cardamom. Thin mouth, light cherry, funky, wood, spice, light finish, very nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Oct 2015
at 23:00
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 9
Bottle shared by jackl. Thanks! Clear pink, medium sized frothy off-white head. Good retention. Aroma of dry tart cherries, raisin, citrus, pale malt, hay, mild vanilla and wood. The taste is hay, earth, strong tart cherries, oak, funk, lingering sour finish. Medium bodied, lingering tartness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Mar 2015
at 01:00
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle shared. Pours cloudy pinkish orange with a minimal off white head. Aroma of earth, funk, tart fruit, manure, ass and sweaty notes. Flavor is light sweet and moderate acidic. Medium bodied with light carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Feb 2015
at 11:19
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 4
Overall 7.5
Refrigerated bottle corked and capped green bottle, bottled on January 23, 2012, says 8.1% abv, IP trade with travlr. Clear peach with very little head. Aroma is tart, medium body, low carbonation and very little lacing. Taste is tart, some oak, and some cherries. Really glad to get to try this, but a little underwhelmed.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Jan 2015
at 19:04
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle at Grote Dorst. Hazy light pink liquid with medium white head. Aroma of almonds, cinnamon, funk, barnyard, lacto and apple. Taste is dry and light to medium sour with notes of cinnamon, almonds and apple skin. Medium bodied with medium carbonation. OK.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Jun 2014
at 10:49
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
375mL bottle, sent from Gregg657 (thanks a lot, Pete), pours an opaque cloudy pinkish orange amber with a small, quickly-dissipating white head. Nose brings out an authentic lambic barnyard funk, followed by cherries, and a touch of horse blanket. Flavour is that of a pretty damn authentic lambic, with a little more alcoholic kick, revealing notes of funk, dry tart cherries, brett and a little alcohol. Really robust and very Belgian-esque - would stack up amongst the best of them. Very elegant and a pleasure to drink. A shame it's just a one-off rarity.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Apr 2014
at 21:43