Kriek De Ranke
(has 1 batch)

Bottle. Red with a small pink head. Fruity aroma with cherries, funk and some lemon. Dry, sour taste with funk and cherries. Pleasant tart and smooth mouthfeel. Very drinkable.

Bottle. Pours dark red. No head. Simple sour cherry aroma with no real character. I could drink this all night, I love the acidity of it, but this is not the most complex kriek I’ve had. A little too one dimensional... but I like it.

First rating75 cl bottle from temporary selection at Systembolaget, thanks to deft! Sampled on March 9, 2010.Didn’t have a pad in front of me, so mainly from memory this one.The first pours are clear dark ruby red with a pinkish small head. Last pours with sediment are murky reddish brown. Scent is sour, acidic, sweaty, fruity, makes the "sour glands" in your throat pull together. Taste is citric, lactic, sour, fruity, horsey, still in some way balanced, for this sort of beer. Some sweetness even around there. Mouthpuckering, sourish mouthfeel. Very low bitterness, though some possibly from cherry skin and pips. Scent and taste from fruit (cherry) pips in there on and off, from subtle to evident, but to varying degrees. I rather enjoyed this one, not too sweet, glad they seem to be making it the old ways. I’ll buy some more for sure.8/5/8/4/17=4.2Rerate750 ml bottle on January 8, 2011. BB 04/2013Thanks to deft!Cloudy cherry wood color, light pink head. Light acidic scent. Acidic, light cherry taste. Fizzy mouthfeel, low bitterness.7/3/7/3/13=3.3RerateBottle 75 cl on March 14, 2014, thanks to deft! 2008 vintage - BB 04-2013.Clear copper oxide color, smallish white head. Acidic, tart, fruity, sulphur scent. Acidic, tart, currants taste. Medium mouthfeel, very low bitterness. Tart aftertaste8/4/8/3/16=3.9

cloudy red, white head. sour aroma, bretty, fruits, stingy sour but nice. flavor is fruity,sour, faint vineagra, nice but a bit simple (7,2,7,3,16) . 75 cl wrapped bottle with an exlusively looking label layout on the bottle. Nice one. Cloudy to clear light red, white to light pink head. almost white. Deep sweet cherry aroma and a good dry leatherly lambic below that. somewhat less intense than cantillon lou pepe kriek which i enjoyed lately, but still pretty damn solid aroma. Flavor is *Really* good, just as good as i remember the lou pepe. a little bit sweeter than the cant. but there is lots of sourness under the sweet cherries, and things blend well. tart and sour.. dry.. but not acidic.. easy drinking. really really good.

5th April 2008 Sour dry cherry beer. A little bit sucking lemon, a little bit dry and a little hard work.

Green bottle, 75 cl, bottled in 12 2005, best before 12 2010, via Importations Privées Bièropholie (merci Hughes!), savoured on September 25 2009; eye: brown with a pinkish hue, hazy, champagne-style light pinkish head that turns into a minimal ring, no lacing, good effervescence; nose: cherry, Brettanomyces yeast, horse, light acidity, candied fruits; mouth: cherry, Brettanomyces yeast, horse, light acidity, candied fruits, mildly sour, short finale in cherry, good carbonation, fizzy, a bit thin; overall: correct FRANÇAIS Bouteille verte, 75 cl, embouteillé le 12 2005, meilleure avant 12 2010, via Importations Privées Bièropholie (merci Hughes!), savourée le 25 septembre 2009; œil : brune avec une teinte rosâtre, trouble, mousse légèrement rosâtre style champagne qui se transforme en un minime anneau, pas de dentelle, bonne effervescence; nez : cerise, levure Brettanomyces, cheval, légère acidité, fruits confits; bouche : cerise, levure Brettanomyces, cheval, légère acidité, fruits confits, moyennement aigre, finale courte en cerise, corps léger, bonne carbonatation, pétillante, un peu mince; en résumé : correct