Transatlantique Kriek
New Belgium Brewing Company in Fort Collins, Colorado, United States 🇺🇸
Collab with: Brouwerij Oud BeerselLambic Style - Kriek Rotating
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7.00
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Winner of a gold medal at the 2018 Great American Beer Festival, Transatlantique Kriek begins its life in oaken vessels of Gert Christiaens’ Oud Beersel, a 130-year-old lambic brewery in the Zenne valley of Belgium – home of authentic Lambic beer. After time spent aging in wood, Oud Beersel’s lambic is blended with tart Polish cherries and shipped across the Atlantic to New Belgium. In concert with Oud Beersel’s cherry lambic, or Kriek, we blend an equal portion of golden sour ale matured for 1 – 3 years in our oak vessels called foeders. 50% Sour Golden Ale blended with 50% Traditional Cherry Lambic Ale leads to an intense cherry nose, a sour flash across the palate and a refreshing, mouthwatering finish.
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
Draft pours cherry red with a thin lace of foam. Thin mouth feel, tart cherry taste, pleasantly sour. A fine lambic!
Very smooth, sweet but not overwhelming, tame kriek. well done. very well done.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Tapster: pours red with small head. Pleasant cherry and light funk nose. Taste is not super complex or deep like a lambic, but it is nicely sweet and lightly sour. Good enough.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle. Clear red color with pinkish head. Aroma is cherry, dusty funk, a bit juicy. Taste is juicy, minerals, rather mild, but tasty. Creamy mouthfeel, medium carbonation. Solid.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottled@Rådhuskällaren, Umeå (shared with Jonathan and Caso). Red colour with a small head. Aroma is cherries, some cherry stones, wood and mild toffeish tones. Flavour is slightly tart wood, some cherries, mild cherry stones as well as some slight nutty tones.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Tap at the Fort Collins brewery, July 2016. Pours clear deep cherry red with a light pink head. Aroma: earthy, funky, tart sour cherries. Taste: tart & sour cherries, oak, earthy, funky. Medium body with low carbonation
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle sample at a tasting at Max's place. Thanks Stas. Slightly hazy red. Cherries, sourish candy, juicy. Quite simple but nice and refreshing.
