Transatlantique Kriek
New Belgium Brewing Company in Fort Collins, Colorado, United States 🇺🇸
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Cherry Lambic Sour Ale
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.
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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6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as New Belgium / Oud Beersel Lips of Faith - Transatlantique Kriek 2015 (by New Belgium Brewing Company (Lion Co. - Kirin Holdings)):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 11/20, MyTotalScore: 3.1/5
24/V/15 - sample @ LIBF (Leuven) - BB: n/a (2015-689) Thanks to the Belgian (and Dutch, and...) RB crew for sharing today's beers!
Clear ruby red to pink beer, small creamy pinkish head, unstable, bit adhesive. Aroma: lots of almonds, sweet, sugary, some green banana, bit fruity, candy. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: lots of almond milk, bit fruity, lemony, some tannins, bit watery. Aftertaste: bit sourish, not so pleasant.
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 11/20, MyTotalScore: 3.1/5
24/V/15 - sample @ LIBF (Leuven) - BB: n/a (2015-689) Thanks to the Belgian (and Dutch, and...) RB crew for sharing today's beers!
Clear ruby red to pink beer, small creamy pinkish head, unstable, bit adhesive. Aroma: lots of almonds, sweet, sugary, some green banana, bit fruity, candy. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: lots of almond milk, bit fruity, lemony, some tannins, bit watery. Aftertaste: bit sourish, not so pleasant.
Tried
from Can
on 24 May 2015
at 14:04
2/10
Tried
on 13 May 2015
at 20:17
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bomber from Beer Frog cons 2015-05-10 Spring Hill, FL AR: kriek youghurt, tart, sweet cherry bonbons AP: blood red colored clear beverage, frothy cream red frothy steady foam F: cherry juice, kriek youghurt, very dry, a bit hollow, sharp wee bubbly carbonation, wee tart, lime flesh, short flavours long sourness/bitterness, I really appreciate the nice kriek flavours but it’s a bit to thin the aroma promised more!
Tried
on 10 May 2015
at 21:45
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Bottle. Ruby red, low head. Cherry wine aroma. Medium dry body. Ever so slightly tart, light fruit, mineral, wood. Medium body. Certainly not a Kriek.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Apr 2015
at 20:58
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Pink with a pinkish head - Aroma of cherries - Nice malt to support the cherries that gives hints of sourness - The cherreis goes into the finish with hints of sourness - This was good and refreshing
Tried
on 12 Apr 2015
at 11:57
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle sample at a tasting at Max’s place. Thanks Stas & Vova. 2015 bottle. Nice clear red with a pink head. Aroma of cherries, cherry pits, marzipan, some wood and some milky buttery touches. Sweetish-sourish-bitterish flavor with cherries and milky notes. Medium-bodied. Decent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Mar 2015
at 11:02
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
At a tasting, thanks, smallish head, clear red color, with purple hues, aroma of cherries, pits and wood, fruity, marzipan flavor, light sourness, light to medium bitterness. Qutie tasty but also quite simple.
Tried
on 30 Mar 2015
at 00:44
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Keg at Bagby, Oceanside, 14/11/14. Clear cherry red with a decent crimson swirl and edgeing. Nose is tarte cherry, light acidic notes, straw, berry fruit, damp cloth. Taste comprises cherry drops, sweeter notes than the nose suggests, less soured berry fruit, damp hay. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close. Ok fruit beer but nothing to get excited about.
Tried
on 15 Mar 2015
at 06:55
8/10
I think I like this year's more than previous. 1st year with Oud Beersel? 4.2
Tried
on 20 Feb 2015
at 19:06
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 9
Pours clear red . No real head . Smell is sweet, cherry . Taste is rather sweet , cherry , with a slightly sour back . Nice, yet a bit too blank to me .
Tried
on 13 Feb 2015
at 21:19