St. Louis Kriek Lambic
Brouwerij Vanhonsebrouck in Emelgem, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Lambic Style - Fruit Regular|
Score
5.73
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Brewing a beer style from the Zenne valley in Emelgem? St-Louis Kriek Lambic proves that it is possible! This cherry beer is made on a lambic base and contains the juice of Oblacinska cherries that have been steeped in gueuze for six months. This specific preparation results in a fresh beer with the sweet taste of cherries. This cherry beer tastes mainly sweet with a hint of sourness from the fruit.
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6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Smell- medium strong, cherry, more of a sour sweet cherry smell. Foam- thin, soft, sour, sweet, cherry. Medium pink, brown head. Appearance- clear, medium dark, red brown ruby..ish color, no carbonation. Taste- sweet, cherry, candy ,some sourness in back, bot it is not disturbing me much. Generally ok, was expecting me not to like it, but I do, still nothing special.
Tried
from Can
on 14 Apr 2019
at 14:55
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
250ml bottle. Clear, redd-ish brown colour with average, frothy, half-way lasting, minimally lacing, pink-ish head. Sugary sweet-ish, artificial fruity aroma, notes of cherry. Taste is sugary sweet and artificially fruity, notes of cherry, sour-ish counterpart with hints of citric acid.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Mar 2019
at 23:35
5.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
0,25 l bottle. Pours clear deep red, slightly on purple side with light pink lasting head. Nice very light pinky lacing. Aroma is straightforward sweet sour cherries, unfortunately it's very artificial. Flavor quite closely follows aroma. Taste is way to sweet for me, bitterness very light and very light sour. Body is light to medium, texture slick and carbonation average. Finish is medium long, starts very sweet and fades to light refreshing sourness. Way too sweet and artificial for my taste.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Jul 2018
at 11:47
5.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
0.25 l bottle from Ambrosetti, Berlin. Shared with Vlasta and Slow Maja on the bus. Cherry candy or jam aroma, fruit juice with soft acidity. Herbs or grass, cherry leaves along with the fruit. Harsh tartness, although light. Light finish, moderately lasting. Watery, moderate carbonation, no real character to it.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Jun 2018
at 18:18
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle thanks to allmyvinyl. Appearance - a light cherry colour. Pink, lacy head. Nose - cherry and cherry lozenge. Taste - more cherry lozenge, marzipan and almond. Palate - close to medium bodied, sweet fruit but tangy and dry through the finish. Overall - so much flavour for the strength.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 May 2018
at 11:39
5.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
0.25 l bottle from 'Rudat', best before August 2019. Clear, ruby with a thin, frothy, almost stable, pinkish white head. Sweetish, quite fruity, slightly artificial aroma of cherry juice, raspberry and some sorbet powder. Fairly sweet, maybe minimally sourish, rather fruity and slightly artificial taste of lots of cherry juice, raspberry, sorbet powder and hints of redcurrant, followed by a short, sweetish, minimally tart and just a little dry finish. Thin body, slightly effervescent mouthfeel, soft carbonation. Too sweet to be refreshing, the lambic is barely detectable, still easily drinkable and not bad.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Mar 2018
at 18:41
6.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle shared at home thanks to Maakun. Clear rusty red with white head. Smell of old canned cherries and candy. Sweet malts, boiled cherries, cherry sauce, winegums. Big sweet and light tart. Medium body, slick malty feel and soft carbonation. Typical sweetened kriek.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Dec 2017
at 14:27
5.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 6
Bottle shared with sjogro. Clear ruby with small light pink head. Watery cherry candy, marzipan, artificial sweetener, light metallic chemicals, CO2. Quite sweet and under medium bitter with light sourness. Over light bodied. Very artificial and not even good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Dec 2017
at 14:23