6% on the label. Bottled may 2000. Pink brown and red in the color. The red must have faded away somewhat over the years. Still very much a cherry aroma, cherry sweets especially. Also a cherry flavor, with some notes of walnut, amontillado sherry and wood. Lovely beer, sweet with a touch of citric sourness. Liefmans kriek was better 20 years ago or so, bit thisis (or was) still a very good beer.

Bottle at Kulminator, vintage 2000. Reddish with a small head. Still some cherries in this one. Not that tart. A relaxed and easy to drink one.

One of the beers continued elsewhere after Clarysse’s demise. Very sweet, only slight sourishness and no oud bruin character, totally different from the original version (on 75 cl), which was a real oud bruin kriekenbier with actual sour cherries and all nice things about oud bruin (lactic acidity, malt complexity, fruitiness). I have no idea why they made it more bland and much more sweet afterwards, should be two different beers here; I will rate it here in the more recent 25 cl version.

Bottle. Cloudy brownish maroon color, medium off white head. Aroma of fruit and fruitcake. Taste is mildy sour cherries, lemons. Not bad.

2000 Vintage (supposedly – the bottle had a best before strip dating from ‘88 – ’92) 75 cl. bottle shared @ Kulminator – brewed at Clarysse – A: murky brown with a hazy musty red hue, small rusty white head, mysterius brown sediment – S: this clearly had some sweetness in it before (actually going by the taste it was probably pretty damn sweet & still quite is) – smell is not that good due to the aging and this, not much of a factor for me but everyone else found it revolting, pure cobwebs, lots of rotting cellar, rotting cherries & most of all rotting aspartame – T: glazy, thinned out arpartham cherries coated with cherry grenadine mixed with cellar, musty, rotting touch, fermenting cherries in the finish, lots of cobwebs & very dusty in the end – B: dusty really with some medium glazy qualities – Aging beers like this remains mostly the work of a madman for me & a typical Kulminator thing – curious & curiosity

About 20 years old, still from Clarysse
Red brown colour, small beige head. Bit of a gusher. Aroma of cherry, madeira, cellar, light sour notes, raspberry and slight cork. Flavour light tart, light sweet, cherry, madeira, raspberry. Finish somewhat tart with sweet madeira. Very nice, great in it’s age.
(75cL bottle @ DRBM, courtesy of PotjeBier)

Bottle @ DRBM 2011, from my own cellar, about 20 years old (from the original Clarysse brewery). Murky brown color. Very lively, beer came gushing out of the bottle. Aroma was, alas, quite corky, mouldy. Flavor, however, was amazing, nice sweet ’n’ sour, with notes of raspberries, I wouldn’t have thought it was 20 years old.

75cl Bottle at DRBM, as Felix Oudenaards Kriekbier, BBF ’92. Hazy amber brown colour, thin off white head. Aroma of cork, mould, fungus, basement, sourish, cherry pits, raspberries. Flavour is light sour, sweetish, raspberries, light malty, sour finish that fades fast. Light bodied. Not bad actually..

[9/5/09] Bottle at Kulminator in Antwerp after LCRBM. 2001 bottle. Dark ruby color with a pinkish-beige head. Aroma of cherries, berries, caramel, malt and wood. Sweet-sour flavor of berries, cherries, caramel, sugar and oak. Medium-bodied. 7/4/8/4/15=3.8
[9/5/09] Bottle sample at Kulminator in Antwerp after LCRBM. 1980 bottle. Brown color. Aroma is oxidized, but had some cherry and oak. Sweet-sour flavor of caramel, malt, cherry and a bit of cardboard. 6/4/7/3/13=3.3

75 cL bottle, 2001 version from Kulminator - so it seems although we think it may have been an older bottle we ended up getting. Pours slight cloudy deep amber with small white head. Beatiful inviting look. Aroma is mild cherry sweet fruity and light sweet, quite fresh. Lovely light cherry fruity flavoured, mild citrusy note and light acidic bite on the back of the tongue. But the fresh fruityness and mild sweetness really stands out. Nice fruity finish. Lovely.