Bruno's Kriek Lambic
Mort Subite in Kobbegem, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Lambic Style - Kriek Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.08
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6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Thxn for sharing, Tim, Wim, And Eugene ! Pours dark, ruby red. Small white head. Smell is pure, sweet cherries. Poepegattekes, as we say. Taste is sweet, Sugar, cherry syrup, OK. Of course not great in quality, but I did enjoy this for what it is, apparently one of the best sweetened fruit-beers out there.
Tried
on 27 Jul 2017
at 09:15
4.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 2
Overall 4
Special edition of Mort Subite Kriek (the sweet one), allegedly with more cherries (or cherry juice) than usual, only made once in 2013; paper-wrapped bottle shared by tderoeck. Never heard of this before, apparently it is named after their brewing master, Bruno Reinders, but it still baffles me that an industrial company would bother releasing a slightly different version of their regular product in such small quantity. Lacing, off-pinkish, moussy head quickly dissolving in the middle, deep fuchsia pinkish red robe with deeper ruby hue. Aroma of sticky red Haribo candy, sweet cherry jam, red lemonade or grenadine, white bread, lavender, raspberry coulis, hay. Very sticky sugary sweetness in the mouth, toothaching, syrupy to the same extent as Mort Subite Xtreme Kriek really, something ascorbic acid- and lemonade-like below this sweetness yet all but refreshing, wheaty base, something earthy and hayish in the finish, no discernible oxidation yet, but that cloying red cherry jam and red candy sweetness sticks till the very end. Horribly sweet, my hopes of encountering a rare traditional lambic were immediately shattered, alas.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Jul 2017
at 09:51
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Big thanks to tderoeck for this rarity! 250 ml. bottle sampled @ “Belgian Ticks Tasting Ghent”. BBF 31.12.2014. Presumably 2013 Vintage. Paper wrapper bottle, actually signed & numbered! Bottle number 482. Sadly not a real sour kriek but a surprisingly good sweet one or the taste of rare swayed me. 25 % kriek according to the label, far higher than their other offerings in general. Given how sweetened this tastes, not sure if that makes a big difference. Bright red, little off-pink head. Nose is very sweet cherry syrup, low metallic, maybe touch of age. Taste is all sweet cherry candy syrup, sugar, artificial candy sweet, it doesn’t have any unpleasant sweetener aftertastes etc. unlike many sweetened kriek beer. Body is maybe touch thinned cherry syrup. All good here.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Jul 2017
at 03:15
4.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 3
Imported from my RateBeer account as Mort Subite Bruno's Kriek Lambic (by Mort Subite (Alken-Maes - Heineken)):
Aroma: 4/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 4/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 6/20, MyTotalScore: 2.1/5
21/VII/17 - 25cl bottle from a trade, shared @ Belgian Ticks Tasting (home) - BB: n/a, #482 capped with a "Mort Subite Xtreme cap, but definitely not the same (amount of) ingredients (2017-1093)
Clear deep pinkish red beer, big creamy irregular white head, pretty stable, adhesive, leaving some lacing in the glass. Aroma: lots of cherry candy (poepkes), fruity, bit sourish, funky touch. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: very sweet and sugary, lots of cherry candy flavour, slightly acidic, very sugary, some citric acidity. Aftertaste: more of the same. Meh. Despite the high amount of cherries (or cherry juice???) this still tastes like a cheap macro artificially sweetened kriek. Quite the disappointment. Maybe I was hoping for something like the Timmermans Oude Kriek, which clearly shows that macro-owned lambic breweries can still make very nice lambic beers. But alas...
Aroma: 4/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 4/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 6/20, MyTotalScore: 2.1/5
21/VII/17 - 25cl bottle from a trade, shared @ Belgian Ticks Tasting (home) - BB: n/a, #482 capped with a "Mort Subite Xtreme cap, but definitely not the same (amount of) ingredients (2017-1093)
Clear deep pinkish red beer, big creamy irregular white head, pretty stable, adhesive, leaving some lacing in the glass. Aroma: lots of cherry candy (poepkes), fruity, bit sourish, funky touch. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: very sweet and sugary, lots of cherry candy flavour, slightly acidic, very sugary, some citric acidity. Aftertaste: more of the same. Meh. Despite the high amount of cherries (or cherry juice???) this still tastes like a cheap macro artificially sweetened kriek. Quite the disappointment. Maybe I was hoping for something like the Timmermans Oude Kriek, which clearly shows that macro-owned lambic breweries can still make very nice lambic beers. But alas...
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Jul 2017
at 18:01