Chapeau Kriek
Brouwerij De Troch in Wambeek, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Lambic Style - Kriek Regular|
Score
5.55
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5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 6
Another one I had many years ago (at Waagstuk in Antwerp, apparently) of which I found old notes on a beermat - but forgot to enter it here. Deep cherry red, pinkish head, sweet cherry jam, marzipan and sugary lemonade nose, very sweet and cloying in the mouth, sugary but not too ’unnatural’ or industrial tasting, sourish lambic touch far away but drowned in an equally sweet cherry candy aftertaste, though some faint lemony sourishness creeps through. Too bad De Troch had to turn to this type of ’beers’ in order to survive, but if this is what it took to keep this lambic brewery alive till our present day, why not. Not suitable for my palate, though.
Tried
from Can
on 04 Jun 2015
at 15:01
4.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4
Bottle at home. Pours cloudy reddish purple with a medium pink head. Aroma of sweet candied cherries. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet, with this unpleasant super sharp finish. Light bodied with pretty flat carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Oct 2014
at 13:34
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle from Bottle Barn in Santa Rosa, CA. Capped, but also with a cork! Pours rather ruddy copper with a transient, slight head. Aroma is cherry, but more tart than sour. Med minus body. This is a little sweet, but not excessively so. It’s a little acid, so I’m going for the Oude Kriek. It’s even a little astringent. But nicely cherry.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Aug 2014
at 20:31
4.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 2.5
375 ml bottle. Pours a dark garnet read with light white head. Aromas of candied cherries. Flavors of weak sugary berry juice. Can’t catch the lambic. It’s a cooler not a beer. Or just a low ABV fruit juice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Dec 2013
at 17:04