Strong Kriek
Waterloo Brewery Mont-St-Jean in Waterloo, Walloon Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Brewed at/by: TimmermansFruit Beer Regular
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Score
4.81
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DSG (25977) reviewed Strong Kriek from Waterloo Brewery Mont-St-Jean 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Bottle sample at a tasting at troubles’s place. Thanks avrashi. Hazy red with a pinkish head. Aroma of cherry Hubba Bubba bubblegu,. Sweet flavor with a faint tart note, with cherry, marzipan, bubblegum, a bit of alcohol, and a light alcohol bitterness touch. Medium-bodied.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Strong Kriek from Waterloo Brewery Mont-St-Jean 9 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 1 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 3
One of these new beers under John Martin’s Waterloo brand, no idea where this is brewed, as is often the case with this terrible contract brewer. Lightly lacing, off-pinkish, moussy head of medium thickness, slowly dissipating; cristal clear vermillion red robe with somewhat pinkish hue, no visible fizz. Aroma reeks very strongly - i.e. from a yard distance - of sweet, sticky red candy (’poepegatjes’ and the like) more than anything else; other, fainter impressions include white sugar, nougat, candied lemon, iron (and not in a natural way), plastic, grenadine, a lot of fusel alcohol, melting rubber and - perhaps - sugared stewed rhubarb. Only when trying very hard, the faintest echo of the sweetest of the Timmermans Krieks seems to appear. Extremely sweet onset, cloying and red candy-like, with a very artificial and one-dimensional candied cherry flavour - but still the sticky red candy character dominates. Carbo is medium, a tad minerally, mouthfeel is ’full’ and rounded but suffers from the sugary stickiness; some ascorbic, lemonade-like sourishness cannot bring any relief and underneath lies a very caramelly, simple malt sweet backbone. The ascorbic acidity gains force towards the finish and struggles with the red candy stickiness but since both are horrible flavours in beer, I do not care which one wins; both aspects go down ingloriously and leave little truly ’beery’. Hops are as good as absent apart from a very vague, virtual bitterish touch far away at the back and to make things worse, wodka-like alcohol shows up in the very end, balancing on the brink of astringency. Cloying red candy sweetness gets the last word - and I passionately hate it. I admit that there are weak traces of Timmermans Kriek in the end, but in all, this is again one of those extra strong and simple sweet ’kriek’ beers which seem to appeal to a younger audience in especially French-speaking Belgium and northern France, a completely useless addition to the already depressing league of Delirium Red, Gauloise Fruits Rouges or Kasteelbier Rouge. This is almost like a lighter version of that repulsive Gordon Xplosion Red Fruit, aimed at a different audience, and equally abhorrent. John Martin would not exist anymore today if it weren’t for their strong, cheap lagers which are consumed in large quantities by alcoholics, but has not contributed anything to Belgian beer culture in the past thirty years. I hate them, I hate one-sidedly, sugary sweet beers, I hate John Martin’s contempt for the more educated beer consumer and I hate this strong Kriek with a passion. Avoid at all time.
Kraddel (15844) reviewed Strong Kriek from Waterloo Brewery Mont-St-Jean 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
OK, this is a weird deScription. The perfect blend between a cherry lambic, and a high fermentation beer ..... OK, what’s up with that? pretty sure this is not a blend with lambic in it, but I guess they want part of the hype train... Anyway, pours light red, clear, Small to OK white head. Smell is poepegattekes and very damn sweet as one would have expected... Taste is sharp, almost, ALMOST got a hint of something sour-like, but mainly, this is just a scaring amount of sugarry taste, and Sugar tends to give a certain dryness anyway. poepegattekes, syrupy,... yeah, I didn’t expect this to be good anyway;
77ships (14506) reviewed Strong Kriek from Waterloo Brewery Mont-St-Jean 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
330 ml. bottle sampled @ home. Text on the back label actually says that this is a blend of a top fermented and a Kriek Lambic (sic) I kid you not, the ingredients contain an E-number. Sigh. Given the name & ABV, I figure that they are trying to get the people that are into the infamous Kasteel Rouge. The one big high ABV Kriek I can thick of on the market. Pours a ruby amber with a dirty off-pink / off-white head. Nose is super intense gelatin cherry candy, sweet to the max, faint metal, mainly just the extreme candy. Taste is this chemical cherry candy with big muted metallic, lightly mineral note, chemical, vague bitter plants, washing powder, paper finish. Cherry gelatin candy is too much muted by these things in the taste, getting too much washing powder, paper, plaster,… Body is dry mineral, plaster,… I would have minded this one too much if it was just massive gelatin cherry candy as the nose indicated. This is a beer clearly meant for one purpose to get drunk & its appeal is teens & people who do not like pale lager but looking to get plastered, women who oppose pale lager (rightfully so, they clearly have some pallet I think), you know the crowd I mean, those will be okay with this, this drinks easier than let us say vodka & soda, there is not much point discussing this beer given the market, slim picking in high ABV sweetened Kriek & I did not like Kasteel Rouge despite the high scores (relatively speaking).
Rubin77 (10187) reviewed Strong Kriek from Waterloo Brewery Mont-St-Jean 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 5
F: off-white, average, not long lasting. C: reddish coppery, clear. A: sweet, candy cherries, artificial, dark overripe cherries. T: cherries, hint of sour cherries, hint of woody, very sweet, hint of alcohol, medium body, medium carbonation, commercial beer for me, 0,33l bottle from Delhaize.