Kriek De Ranke
Brouwerij De Ranke in Dottignies, Hainaut, Belgium 🇧🇪
Flemish Red / Bruin Regular|
Score
7.50
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Kriek de Ranke is an unsweetened cherry beer of mixed fermentation. It arises from a blend of old Flemish ale, lambic and 25 kilos of sour cherries/Hl.
Taste: Full cherry flavour, sour and thirst-quenching. Gentle oaky notes from oak-aging.
Taste: Full cherry flavour, sour and thirst-quenching. Gentle oaky notes from oak-aging.
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6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6.5
Texture 7
Overall 6.5
2025 bottle. Pours a deep, partially hazy red; gets just a few carbonation bubbles that disappear instantly. A surprisingly quite subdued (and also a bit undefined) aroma: a soft, wet wood like base, maybe with a dough like hint to it, light fruity notes (more raspberry than cherries actually), hints of lactic sourness. More pronounced sourness (and a bit more vividness) in taste: mainly lactic, and slightly soft-feeling, as the smell suggested, still backed up by a good amount of sweetness. Notes as per aroma; again, i get more raspberries than cherries. Still a slightly unclean/undefined taste, but the beer finds a good overall sweet/sour balance. Medium body, very light carbonation with a hint of fizziness to bring a bit of liveliness; feels mostly slick on the overall. Maybe an unlucky bottle, but what i had was no more than a decent/mediocre sour.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Mar 2026
at 13:33
9/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 9
Overall 9
Draught @ Taproom De Ranke. Pours a deep unclear red, off-white pinkish ring atop. Fresh, vibrant, fresh-picked wild cherry nose. Flavour profile has a wonderfully prickly wild sour character entertaining a fruity cherry presence. Fresh, lively and flavoursome kriek. Really good.
Tried
from Draft
at
De Ranke - Taproom
on 16 Mar 2025
at 10:55
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
750ml courtest of the sloval sniper. Nice fruity, funky aroma, the kriek is quite subtle, but the funky, barnyard aromas are very present. The carb is quite active, and the mouth feel is very lively. There is what seems to be a strong mineral finish mixed in with the funk. The tartness dies out quickly, and the fruit is nowhere to be found in the end. Good, but not great.
Tried
on 28 Feb 2025
at 05:21
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
From tap at Moeder Lambic Fontainas, Brussels. Aroma is funky, lots of tart cherries, hint of sweet cherries. Flavour is nicely medium sour, body is medium. Great balance and complexity, truly a delicious Sour Ale!
Tried
from Draft
on 11 Feb 2025
at 15:41
8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Аромат не слегка приятен. Ощущается квашенная кислота яблок, немного черешни с оттенок навоза. Вкус кислый, но умеренный. Чувствуется вишневая кислота и косточка черешни, квашенные яблоки. Послевкусие более ягодное, достаточно продолжительное но не резкое. В целом как бы сказал Руслан Гительман- это тема тема.
Tried
on 05 Feb 2025
at 06:46
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
75cl Fles van Etre Gourmet. Rozerode kleur, lichtroze kraag. Hout, kersen, flink zuur, hint van aceton, weinig restsuiker, vrij droog, bitter, fruitig, wel smaakvol en steeds lekkerder naarmate het bier wat opwarmt. Lichte body. Goed.
Tried
on 23 Nov 2024
at 22:59
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Dark red colour with r white head.Aroma of rhubarb and raspberry sweets with note of mild acid dry and easy to drink kind a like beer.
Tried
on 15 Jul 2024
at 14:24
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Keg at Nuetnigenough, Brussels. Ribena ice lolly in the summer aroma. Lovely deep red colour. Fantastic Lambic ending.
Tried
on 21 May 2024
at 19:42
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottled 750ml. -at Ambasada Zagreb. Ruby red coloured, small to medium sized off-white head, tartish cherry nose. Tartish cherry, slightly perfumed, mild spicy and slightly sugary with rather dry finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Dec 2023
at 23:02