Kriek
Tommie Sjef Wild Ales in Den Helder, Noord-Holland, Netherlands 🇳🇱
Sour / Wild Beer - Flavoured Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.82
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Kriek is made with organic sour cherries. Our interpretation of this classic style is a blend of different wild ales varying from 1 up to 2 years combined with the cherries. The cherries where macerated and fermented in the beer for over half a year in a red wine foeder. We used 375 grams of cherries per liter of beer.
The cherries pop out in the aroma, together with a hint of cinnamon and almond. It’s a fairly clean aroma, with just a hint of funk. In the taste I find a lot of dark berry notes, fresh cherries, some spices and a touch of red wine notes from the foeder. The sourness is quite pronounced in this one, which mainly comes from the cherries. The beer also took up some firm tannins from the fruit. This gives the beer a nice dry finish.
Kriek is already good to drink during the fall, but this beer is also perfect to cellar for a couple of years to balance out the fruitiness and base beer. With a year or more of ageing, the tannins and sourness will be more integrated as well.
The cherries pop out in the aroma, together with a hint of cinnamon and almond. It’s a fairly clean aroma, with just a hint of funk. In the taste I find a lot of dark berry notes, fresh cherries, some spices and a touch of red wine notes from the foeder. The sourness is quite pronounced in this one, which mainly comes from the cherries. The beer also took up some firm tannins from the fruit. This gives the beer a nice dry finish.
Kriek is already good to drink during the fall, but this beer is also perfect to cellar for a couple of years to balance out the fruitiness and base beer. With a year or more of ageing, the tannins and sourness will be more integrated as well.
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8/10
Breakfast beer. Sour cherry juice with funk!
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Oct 2022
at 12:53
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Fjerde stopp på The Bermondsey Beer Mile ble Craft Beer Junction, hvor vi ble helt fantastisk godt ivaretatt av en særdeles kunnskapsrik og entusiastisk innehaver. Generøs smaksprøve fra flaske: lett uklar mørk kirsebærrød med fint skum som varer. Herlig, skarp kirsebærsmak med vanilje og hint av søtlig citrus. Saftig, halvtørr og ganerensende.
Tried
on 18 Aug 2022
at 16:58
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
How: Bottle.
Where: MBCC 2022.
Appearance: Dark red colour with a bubbly pink head.
Aroma: Cherries, sour, tart, fruit.
Body: Medium body, low carbonation.
Flavour: Cherries, sour, tart, fruit.
Where: MBCC 2022.
Appearance: Dark red colour with a bubbly pink head.
Aroma: Cherries, sour, tart, fruit.
Body: Medium body, low carbonation.
Flavour: Cherries, sour, tart, fruit.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Jun 2022
at 10:49
8/10
Taster at MBCC 22. Deep red with light pink head. Cherries, sour, sweetness. Nice
Tried
on 13 May 2022
at 09:25
8/10
Fruity, tart, sour. Strong ripe cherries, low acidity, a bit of barnyard funk. A touch of black pepper and yeast in the finish, dry. Shorter aftertaste than the best in style, but nonetheless excellent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Apr 2022
at 20:44
8/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Mar 2022
at 21:13
8.6/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle. Clear deep ruby with small pink head. Lovely sour cherries, almonds, wheat, a touch of funk, a touch of oak. Medium sweet, almost medium sour, light bitter. Over medium bodied. Lovely.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Mar 2022
at 20:08
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Pink, small head, going fast over deep carmine to cardinal red beer. Chalk, ink, cherry, cherrystems... but fruit? Maybe smelling as a very strong reduction of cherries. Sour cherry, cherry reduction (again), cherry sauce, hints at acids, tart. Intense, but definitely natural smelling, nowhere artificial or sugared. Acidthinning, fruit-filled, slick. Sharp-ish, but very pleasing; utterly convincing kriek.
Tried
from Bottle
from
Station 1280
on 12 Dec 2021
at 09:26
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Very bright, deep red colour. It's got fresh and fruity cherry. In the finish it gets drier and a bit woody.
Tried
on 07 Nov 2021
at 12:08
7.6/10
Tried
on 20 Oct 2021
at 18:09