Transatlantique Kriek
New Belgium Brewing Company in Fort Collins, Colorado, United States 🇺🇸
Collab with: Brouwerij Oud BeerselLambic Style - Kriek Rotating
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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 - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as New Belgium / Oud Beersel Transatlantique Kriek (2018) (by New Belgium Brewing Company (Lion Co. - Kirin Holdings)):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 17/20, MyTotalScore: 3.9/5
5/V/19 - sample @ Oud Beersel, Toer de Geuze, BB: n/a - (2019-669)
Little cloudy reddish to pink beer, small aery irregular light pink head. Aroma: pretty fruity, some vinegar, lemony notes, funky, cherries, decent. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: pretty fruity, nice acidity, dry, lots of cherries, wood notes, funky. Aftertaste: some vinegar, pretty acidic, fruity notes, nice one!
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Tap at Oud Beersel. Bit hazy red with light pink head. Sweet and sour cherries, sweet South East Asian spices, soft marzipan, light herbal, soft malts and what seems like soft fruity hops. Medium sour, light sweet and bitter. Medium bodied with sparkly carbonation.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Tap at Oud Beersel. Clear ruby, fine foamy head, light pink. Sour cherries, marzipan, sweet cherries. Moderate sweet and bitter, medium sour. Medium body and soft carbonation.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Draft. A- Jam, raspberry. A- Dark red color, clear liquid, pink head. T- Raspberries, jam, cherries, mildly sweet. P- Medium body, average texture, average carbonation. slightly sweet finish. O- Not too sweet and better than previous years in my opinion. Lots of berry fruit and jammy. Could drink quite a lot of this. Not super complex but nice.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
375ml caged and corked bottle, bottled October 31st.
Pours a cloudy deep red with a pinkish head of foam. It shrinks slowly but doesn't leave much lacing behind.
Lovely aromas of tart cherries, almost puree like, light hints of Brett.
Tart cherries that are easy to deal with, even for non afficienados of sour beers, I reckon. Mild Brett that doesn't detract from the fruity goodness. Very vinous finish to this splendid offering.
Light body with light carbonation.
I'm a bit puzzled as to why this is aboot $4 more per bottle than the La Folie and Le Terroir...must be because it's a collaboration?
Worth the bucks.
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
bottle at JK's in FW. Cool Lambic/Fruit beer - carbonated, crisp and refreshing. good stuff
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Two year old bottle from Dranken De Moor, shared with Goedele. Blend of Oud Beersel cherry lambic (made with Polish sour cherries) and a barrel-aged golden ale by New Belgium. Cobweb-lacing, pale pink, irregular, moussy but slowly opening head on an initially clear, very beautifully deep and bright ruby red beer, turning misty with sediment. Aroma of lots of cherry flesh, even raspberry juice, violets, tofu, lemon, stewed beetroot, vague old wood and sweaty lambic notes. Sour onset, a truckload of sour cherry with lemony, initially even bit puckering edges, presence of wry cherry peel, medium carbonation, supple body. Underneath an ongoing drying, very fruity, mouthwatering tartness lies a light, cereally, cleanly bready and thinly wheaty malt sweetish base, but the sourness is omnipresent and dries the finish with a very quenching effect, enhanced a bit by cherry stone wryness and lactic tartness. A very late, dim, earthy hop bitter note pops up in the finish amidst the sourness. Highly refreshing, crisp and clean sour 'kriek', relatively easygoing for a sour fruit beer and perhaps lacking a bit in complexity compared with e.g. pure cherry lambics, but this is made up for by its beautiful red colour, quenching and accurate fruit acidity and 'honest' character. As for vintage comparison, I didn't notice a whole lot of difference with the 2015, but then that one is a few years ago so a vertical tasting of different of these vintages could prove interesting, if only to see which influence the basic character of the different lambics has.