7.9

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Pours dark purplerede. Small pinkwhite layer of foam - barely to be called a head. Scent is fleshy, candy (not sweet)-intense cherry. Very mild traces of acetic acid, providing some funk. Taste is sharp, intensely tart ( the most intense of the 4 cherry versions released in 2021 ) . Full cherries (swiming pool aroma). Lovely beer, but as hyped as it is, I expected more. I actually prefer the 'Oude Kriek met Cider' myself. Still, a briliant beer, obviously.

9

Super intense cherry with a solid funk

6.1

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Clear red colour with no head. Aroma and flavour have a mix of the sweet and sour elements of cherry. Fresh, tangy and sharp. Not really dry or woody.

8.9

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 9

Small pink rim, deep red beer. Intense sour cherry aroma, overwhelming and satisfying as it just breathes the right thing. Sour cherries, the Schaarbeekse variety as intense as possible. In other words, the kriek d' antan as kriek ought to be. There is a underlying sweetness as from home-made cherry pie without sugar. Very fruitslick and fruit-filled. Medium carbonation. God knows how many cherries went it. This is a blast from the past, reminding me of the 3 Bronnen kriek from Beersel.

7.9

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5

21/VIII/21 - 75cl bottle @ Gents Bierfestival (Gent), BB: n/a (2021-938)

Pretty cloudy deep ruby to purple beer, small aery creamy pink head, little stable, non adhesive. Aroma: nice, lots of krieken (sour cherries), very funky, bitter impression. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: very sourish, lot of tannins, sour cherries, acidic, nice stuff! Aftertaste: bit oxidized, cherry pits, some marzipan, acidic, fruity, complex, very nice!

8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle. Hazy purple color with pink head. Aroma is disinfectant, swimming pool chlorine indeed (probably from the cherry stone?), cherry skin, plums, tobacco and leather. Taste is the same, lemony and acidic finish. Mineraly mouthfeel with sparkly carbonation. To be shared, not to be solo-domed, it's very aggressive.

8.6

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9.5

Boerenerf is out of the starting blocks with a bunch of beautiful lambic creations, all made with 3 Fonteinen lambic in a kind of new cross-pollination: Boerenerf, being a nearby organic farm, has been cultivating grain for 3 Fonteinen for years, and recently decided to make the relationship reciprocal, so to speak... Medium thick, nicely moussy, shred-lacing, slowly breaking but generally well-retaining, pale lilac head on an initially near-clear, deep and glowing ruby red beer with darker burgundy tinge in the middle, turning misty further on - a feast to the eye, and with this amount of 'rubiness', I wonder what the fruit density in this one could be... Expressive bouquet of a whole lot of fleshy sour cherries - Schaarbeekse 'griottes' shining as brightly as they can, over impressions of cherry wine, cherry stones, cooked plum, purple gooseberry, grass silage, red apple, haystack, light swimming pool chlorine, almond, rosé champagne, petrichor even. Quite intense onset, some lemony acidity quickly shifting to malic acid, from the sour cherries obviously but also sour apple-like, with an undertone of unripe plum and gooseberries; the sharpness of it all then makes place for a softer, more 'deep' lactic tartness, piercing through a slender cereally core and carrying on this truckload of bright red sour fruit, towards a finish where balancing tannic effects come into play - from the wood and the cherry skins as well as the stones - yet not astringent enough to withstand this wave of fleshy, juicy, luscious sour 'cherriness' which even harbours a sweetish core deep within, as I have rarely encountered in oude kriek. The fleshy character of the Schaarbeekse variety really is the centerpiece here, even with a core of ripe fruit sweetness - clearly the intention was to underline the quality of this classic 'lambic fruit'. I had many Schaarbeekse krieken before - but only a few of them managed to showcase the characteristics of this variety, as compared with other sour cherry varieties used in 'regular' oude kriek, as convincingly as this one. The fourth Boerenerf masterpiece in a row for me...