Glühkriek
(has 5 batches)
Liefmans in Oudenaarde, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
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Score
6.98
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A seasonal spiced cherry beer, meant to drink warm.
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7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Hazy brown/red colour with a small head. Smells both cherry and christmas spices. Taste like a sweet christmas cookie with some cherry. A lot better when warm as recomended on bottle (70c). Also ok in room temperature.
[Bottle from Systembolaget in Strömstad, Sweden]
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Dec 2015
at 12:22
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle from Systembolaget. Drank it cool. Dark red with no head. Spicy aroma of cloves, ginger, cardamom and loads of cherry. A little bit like swedish gingerbread. Similar taste. The perfect holiday beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Dec 2015
at 12:13
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
(Bottle, half tried cold and half tried warm) Dark red colour. Cold, it’s flat with brief bubbly head. Warm, it gets a dense pinkish head. Fruity, spicy nose with notes of cherries, red fruit, spices (cinnamon, cardamom, clove) and a touch of caramel or toffee. Fruity, spicy taste with cherries, Swedish glögg (spicy, sweetened red wine served around Christmas), spices and a touch of treacle toffee. Medium body, quite sweet. Fruity, tasty and spicy. Preferred it warm, would work nicely on a cold winter’s eve. Nice one.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Oct 2015
at 17:09
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
This was the first beer, at least in Belgium, intended to be served hot. Was quite a revelation in that sense and only few have followed this example. I tasted it at room temperature once, but the added spices (cinnamon, cloves and star aniseed?) are way too harsh then, rendering it hard to drink. At the intended 70° C, this is kind of enjoyable on icy days, much the same as Glühwein; burgundy colour, no head to speak of except some large and quickly vanishing bubbles; the aroma is not very beery, but still relatively complex, with lots of cherry, the aforementioned spices, passion fruit, grenadine, sugar and a lemony sourish accent. Same for the taste, sweet and spicy, very fruity, smooth, with a drying spicy finish. I honestly don’t like warm drinks that much, not even in winter, but this is admittedly quite charming. I have always preferred the regular version, though.
Tried
on 20 Jan 2015
at 14:31