Kriek De Ranke
(has 1 batch)
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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7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle from the Bottle Stop, Bramhall. Poured a vivid deep red colour with a fast fading pink head. Aroma was preodominantly sour cherry with plenty of da funk lingering. Flavour was tart cherry sourness aplenty with some wood and barnyard notes. Lipsmackingly taaasty swigger. Dried out considerably towards the finish. Lots to like here. Dug it.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Jan 2011
at 13:27
5.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 2
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 6
Imported from my RateBeer account as De Ranke Kriek (by Brouwerij De Ranke):
Aroma: 2/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 5/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 12/20, MyTotalScore: 2.7/5
15/10/2010 75cl bottle @ De Ranke presentation at Gentse Biervereniging
NOTE: this was drunk at a very young age, 3 weeks. So the beer hadn't had the opportunity yet to age. So this calls for a re-rating.
Intense red to ruby beer, practically no head. Aroma: still lots of bretta, some cherries, but barely detectable. Taste is like the Cuvée De Ranke with some fruits, but not even sure if I would be able to tell in a blind tasting.
Aroma: 2/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 5/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 12/20, MyTotalScore: 2.7/5
15/10/2010 75cl bottle @ De Ranke presentation at Gentse Biervereniging
NOTE: this was drunk at a very young age, 3 weeks. So the beer hadn't had the opportunity yet to age. So this calls for a re-rating.
Intense red to ruby beer, practically no head. Aroma: still lots of bretta, some cherries, but barely detectable. Taste is like the Cuvée De Ranke with some fruits, but not even sure if I would be able to tell in a blind tasting.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Oct 2010
at 08:03
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
(Bottle, 0.75 l, from Systembolaget - thanks mto) Poured dirty red coloured and hazy. Head was pink and medium sized. Aroma contained sourness and cherry stones. Palate was medium bodied and bit dry with medium carbonation. Flavours were sourness, tartness, cherries, cherry stones, hint of malts and low bitterness. Aftertaste contained sourness and cherries.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Aug 2010
at 21:30
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle at Sourfest. Pours with a red body and a fading white head. Aroma is funk, sour, with cherries. Taste is acidic, tart, funky. A bit acetic with lots of fruit. Lively bubbles with a super dry mouthfeel.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Jul 2010
at 11:42
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Sample at the HSC Sour Beer Tasting on 06/19/2010: This Kriek is a mostly clear reddish-amber color with a medium off-white head that dissipates to an outer ring. Stringy lacing on the glass. Funky aroma with notes of sour fruit, wine cork and brett. Medium body with a moderately sour character and flavors of lemon, apple cider, malt and more brett. The finish is woody and fruity with a cherry aftertaste. Pretty good, and I liked it equally with the Cuvée de Ranke sampled right before it.
Tried
on 27 Jun 2010
at 18:11
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Medium pink head. Hazy purple body. Concentrated wooden cherry aroma with waxy barnyard notes. Acidic-dry wooden waxy cherry taste, very powerful, with hidden sweetness, and floral herbal notes. Mid-to-light body. Dense palate. Dry-acidic waxy cherry aftertaste with wooden notes. Nice, but not great. (0.75l bottle. Not sure where from.)
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 May 2010
at 02:05
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle, 75 cl, 2010-04-17, Göteborg AP: lovely red/purple colored body, wee diminishing head AR: sour kriek F: sour kriek, a steady cherry flavour, no sweetness (which i s good), some bitterness easy to get confused vs the sourness
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Apr 2010
at 11:50