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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5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 5
Overall 6
Clear deep red colour, small frothy pinkish head, mostly lasting, fair lacing. Aroma sweet and sour, cherry syrup, candy sugar, jam. Taste medium sweet, light sour, cherry, sugary. Medium body, sticky texture, average carbonation, finish sweetsour; overall a refreshing fruit beer, less sweet than I expected, but also less sour.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Dec 2014
at 15:08
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
(Draught at Café Gollem, Amsterdam, 22 Aug 2014) Red colour with frothy, beige head. Fruity nose with cherries, bitter almond and red fruit. Fruity taste with notes of cherries, red fruit, bitter almond and a certain sweetness coming through. Medium body. Straightforward and fairly uncomplicated, but tasty with a fresh cherry character. Quite nice.
Tried
on 22 Nov 2014
at 07:01
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
375mL bottle, pours a nearly opaque pinkish dark red with a small off-white head. Aroma brings out sugary sweet cherries, but not cloying. Flavour is around the same, with sweetened cherries, but not too sweet nor cloying. Not complex or anything, but it's an easy drinking sugary fruit beer. Nice commercial lambic, as far as they go.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Oct 2014
at 19:11
4.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Tasted as Saint-Louis Kriek Lambic (in the original 4.5% ABV version) and as Vieux Bruxelles Kriek Lambic (with 4% ABV), the alias under which it is sold in the Aldi supermarkets. Thin but more or less stable, moussy, off-pink head, colour very deep ruby red like a young bordeaux, clear. Strong and artificial, candy-like cherry sweetness dominates the nose, reminiscent of red, sticky candy and strongly sugared, industrial cherry jam, hints of liquorice, lemon, red apple, honey, lemonade and still some (very) vague, sweaty and funky lambic-like accents. Taste sweet and sugary, cherry candy and red fruit jam, but still ’bearable’ compared with the Premium version and actually reminding of actual, genuine cherry juice, tartness more from ascorbic acid than from lambic but in the finish, some faint woodiness is still present, though the dryness is mostly achieved by the ascorbic acid. Sugary and syrupy sweetness does stick to the teeth and throat and annoys me. Thinnish mouthfeel (low ABV usually implies low body) with soft carbonation. Not as lemonade-like as many of its congeners and in that sense not the worst ’sweet kriek’ I ever had, but the style will never fit my personal taste and this kind of oversugared fruit beers are still like liquid candy to me (which is exactly the intention, of course), whether it’s made from actual Zenne valley lambic or Western Flemish ’lambic’ like this one. If one considers only the latter, this is on a par with Jacobins Kriek (not the Max version) from Bockor, but perhaps a tad less sweet.
Tried
from Can
on 03 Oct 2014
at 14:07
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle from Det Bette Ølhus. Clear reddish brown with an off-white head. Aroma is sweet cherries, heavy marzipan and vanilla essence. Flavor is quite sweet. Sweet finish. On a hot summer day this is actually drinkable. 270714
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Jul 2014
at 06:21
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle, 6C. Red with an off white head that fades quickly. Aroma of cherries and marzipan. Sweet with a little funk if you squint a bit. Quite nutty, cherries and apricots, finish leans a little towards dry. Pleasant enough and avoids the children’s medicine character of some of this sort of thing.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Jun 2014
at 05:30