Kriek
Brouwerij Hof Ten Dormaal in Tildonk, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Sour / Wild Beer - Flavoured Regular|
Score
7.41
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GenDV138 (9261) reviewed Kriek from Brouwerij Hof Ten Dormaal 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
12 oz bottle shared at the November DC RateBeer tasting. Thanks Chris! Slightly hazy pinkish red with off-white pink head. Aromas of cherries, berries, tart notes. Tastes of cherries, tart notes, funk, light vanilla. Light body with a dry finish. Delicious.
radagast83 (13601) reviewed Kriek from Brouwerij Hof Ten Dormaal 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
12oz (or 11.2oz) bottle at the November DC Ratebeer tasting. Poured a bright ruby red color with a pink head. Aroma was a lot of funky cheese, armpit? Cherry skins. Flavor was dark, cherries. Some light sour, but not overly sour.
westchesterco (2480) reviewed Kriek from Brouwerij Hof Ten Dormaal 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 4
From a bottle at the November RB DC tasting. Thanks, Chris!. It is a cloudy rosey color with a pinkish white head. The Aroma shouts sour and the taste is sour with no distinct flavor and a tart finish.sours are still not my favorite.
iphonephan (11573) reviewed Kriek from Brouwerij Hof Ten Dormaal 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
From a bottle at the November RB DC tasting. Thanks, Chris!. Pours a cloudy rose with a pinkish white head. Aromas of cherries and funk. Flavors are moderate sour. Smooth, tart finish.
Alengrin (11675) reviewed Kriek from Brouwerij Hof Ten Dormaal 8 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Hof ten Dormaal's Zure impregnated with sour cherries, in the new packaging and labelling style. Fortunately I have a habit of opening any Dormaal beer above the sink: pink beer streamed out of the bottle neck upon opening - sigh... Medium thick, regular, moussy, pale fuchsia-tinged head immediately dissolving in the middle but well-retaining around the edge, over a misty, deep rosé-wine-coloured beer with ruby red hue. Aroma of sour cherry juice, cherry pits and skins, sour yoghurt and curdled milk, spoiled beetroot, red wine vinegar or very old red wine gone sour, stewed sour apples, redcurrant, some sweet red raspberry and ripe blue plum notes, brown soap, vague manure-like touch and even something slightly plastic-like in the background. Very spritzy onset, heavily overcarbonated even for a sour, stinging the tongue agressively and clouding the finesses of the flavour a bit, until it calms down and unveils a rich blanket of sour cherry flesh and sour cherry juice resting over the entire beer, with a lot of juiciness in the onset, even with a sweet, ripe plum-, ripe red apple- and even very vaguely candied cherry-like core to it; this crisp and explicit sourness and subdued sweetness has nice wry edges from the cherry skins, adding some complexity. Bready malt backbone, with further breadiness added by the yeast in the end; crisp, almost puckering sourness, not just from the sour cherries but from the bacterial effects of the basic sour ale as well, agressively pierces through this breadiness and becomes almost vinegary at certain moments. Ends with this same sourness, soft wryness from the cherry skins lingering and even reinforced by a more bitter wryness from - I guess - the pits; yeasty, almost somewhat starchy character becomes more apparent in the end as the sediment is added. Meanwhile this weird, almost candied cherry-like sweet hint, however subtle as it may be, keeps shyly popping up under all this sourness and tartness, and does so in a charming way; a dash of late, 'deep', earthy hop bitterishness is thrown in a the end for good measure. The sourness, almost burning after swallowing, remains the main factor here, so you'll really have to like sour beer styles in order to appreciate this - American geeks surely will and I have to admit that I do too, provided there is enough complexity to it, so even in spite of that off-putting 'Dormaal gushing' as I am almost inclined to call it, this is a pleasant enough, 'rural', naturally sour and crisp 'zure kriek'. It does not have the same depth and infinite complexity as the best of the traditional lambic krieks of course, will doubtlessly be too harsh in its acidity for many, and it has a few faint 'off-flavours' in the nose, but it sure can compete with many modern, American and other attempts at achieving the same effect without applying actual spontaneous fermentation and long term barrel aging. Quite pleasant, overall, a 'happy accident' in some ways like many other Dormaal beers and in need of some more finetuning, but quenching, uncompromizing, 'honest' and generous in its added fruitiness - have a point for that.
AndySnow (19624) reviewed Kriek from Brouwerij Hof Ten Dormaal 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
How: Bottle.
Where: Had at home.
Appearance: Red colour with a large pink head. Gushed when opened.
Aroma: Cherries, sour, tart.
Body: Medium body, low to medium carbonation.
Flavour: Sour, cherries, some fruit, tart.
daniele (14510) reviewed Kriek from Brouwerij Hof Ten Dormaal 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
bottle bbe 3/27 rubino velata schima media discreta persistenza ciliegia cantina mandorla note tannica abbastanza acida buona secchezza
Lilja (4691) reviewed Kriek from Brouwerij Hof Ten Dormaal 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Flaska från SB. Smak och doft av körsbärskärnor och syrliga körbärs med toner av hallon, vinäger och trä. Stor syrlighet, viss strävhet, torr, lagom sötma och beska. Gott!
pilsnerrogge (4802) reviewed Kriek from Brouwerij Hof Ten Dormaal 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottled:
Pours deep purole with a small, pink head. Sourish aroma of cherries, currants and oak casks. Sourish taste of cherries, raspberries and currants.
Really good!
kajser27 (3009) reviewed Kriek from Brouwerij Hof Ten Dormaal 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Dark cherry colored, no head. Aroma is of sour cherries, tart, bit vinous, some woody notes, bit wild notes. Taste is medium- sweet, sour cherries, fruity, some wood and wild notes, moderate tartness, bit vinegar, dry finish. Medium bodied, soft carbonation oily. Pretty good, not too sweet. (bottle, Bierhalle Deconinck, Vichte)