Oude Kriek
(has 10 batches)
Timmermans in Itterbeek, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Lambic Style - Kriek Regular|
Score
7.30
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The flavour of Timmermans Oude Kriek, refermented in the bottle, is without comparison. The cherries from which it derives its taste and colour it features traditionally come from Schaerbeek. Slightly acidic and with a wonderful bouquet, this natural and hence unpredictable brew requires careful handling throughout its long maturation period. Created from a blend of old and young lambic, Timmermans Oude Kriek keeps for 12 years. Like Timmermans Oude Gueuze, this is a precious drink, available in a limited edition only !
Taste-wise… The marriage of genuine lambic, to the cherry - originally the Schaerbeek cherry - always has surprising results, particularly as a spontaneously fermented young lambic is added to the old lambic in the proportion of one to three. This union, in which natural bitterness dominates, will delight genuine connoisseurs of spontaneous fermentation and will surprise newcomers to fruit beers in their most prestigious and noble form.
Taste-wise… The marriage of genuine lambic, to the cherry - originally the Schaerbeek cherry - always has surprising results, particularly as a spontaneously fermented young lambic is added to the old lambic in the proportion of one to three. This union, in which natural bitterness dominates, will delight genuine connoisseurs of spontaneous fermentation and will surprise newcomers to fruit beers in their most prestigious and noble form.
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8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8
375ml bottle from Abeervinum, Rimini, Italy. Brewed in 2014 and bottled in 2017. Pours red-brown, practically deprived of foam. Not really attractive-looking. Aroma is acetic and cherries. Body is average, like carbonation. Astringency is really strong. Taste is intensely sour, with a marvelous astringent feeling, torturing your palate for a pretty long period. Overall, fantastic!
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 May 2020
at 18:07
8.1/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Musty cherry, malt, and dry hay aroma. Hazy ruby red with minimal head. Minimally sweet cherry malt, moderately sour vinegar and citric acid, and mildly bitter dry hay flavor. Nice body and balance. Pretty tart.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Feb 2020
at 01:25
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
2009 corked bottle. Red color, no head. oak, cherry and marzipan in the somewhat vinous aroma. Very sour flavor, close to the maximum of sourness tolerable in fact, with lemon, cherry and oak. Lingers in your mouth, the aftertaste lasts for minutes. Solid kriek.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Aug 2019
at 12:06
7/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Corked bottle from The Gull, North Vancouver, brewed 2014, bottled 2017, 6.7%, bb 12/2032
Beautiful ruby colour, bright, clean. Moderate aroma of cherries, not much lambic aroma. Bone dry, with sharp acidity, very lemony, and indeed astringent, with mild cherry flavour, but I'm not getting much lambic character.
Aggressive cherry Sour.
Beautiful ruby colour, bright, clean. Moderate aroma of cherries, not much lambic aroma. Bone dry, with sharp acidity, very lemony, and indeed astringent, with mild cherry flavour, but I'm not getting much lambic character.
Aggressive cherry Sour.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 May 2019
at 00:43
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Deep red. Cloudy. Small head. Aroma: sour cherry, light barnyard, a hint of lemon acid. Light body. Lively carbonation. Taste: bonedry, highly sour. That sourness is pure, refined, and refreshing. Nice cherry, citrus sourness, light wild yeast. This is a proper acid bomb!
Tried
on 13 Feb 2019
at 21:03