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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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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6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Thank you! 750 ml. bottle sampled @ “Ik stap op tram 4...” tasting. Bright red, little head. Nsoe is nice bright cherry, low sweet, faint cherry syrup, sweet & sour lacto style. Just as wit the 2015 version taste falls empty and flat for me, bland low iron, vague sweet cherry, soap, iron, low syrup but just empty & bland, not a big fan.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Jan 2018
at 04:24
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Purplish colour, hazy, light purple head. Cherry jam, some light barrel, are the focus of the aroma. Tart, bit yoghurty and a touch of woody dryness. Lots of cherry, on the palate it is again quite jammy. Finishes sweet-tart, again the cherry is fairly strong and a bit candyish. Solid.
Tried
from Can
on 02 Jan 2018
at 09:04
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
(Draught at Man in the Moon, Stockholm, 2 Sep 2017) Ruby red colour with frothy, off-white/pinkish head. Fruity, sourish nose with cherries, almonds and cranberries. Fruity, tart taste with notes of cherries, cranberries, pomegranate and a balanced tartness in a dry finish. Almost full body, quite dry. Really tasty, with lots of fruit character and a fresh tartness. Very nice.
Tried
on 13 Dec 2017
at 16:13
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Keg at All In Beer Fest 2017 cons 2017-11-03/04 AR: heavy kriek AP: ruby red, wee white head F: kriek, dry, cheese, sour feeling
Tried
on 21 Nov 2017
at 17:05
8/10
Balanced & pleasant. Plenty of cherries, citrus & minerals. Very nice, very drinkable.
Tried
on 04 Nov 2017
at 20:38
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Marmeladiger Geruch. Frische Kirschnoten, geringe Säure, zunehmend trocken. Intensiv kirschiger Mittelteil, rund fruchtig, langer Nachhall. Vollmundig, rund, lecker! 10/12/11/10/12/12
Tried
on 20 Oct 2017
at 02:07
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle at SBWF. Clear deep red colour, small pinky head. Tart cherryish aroma. Light-bodied to medium-bodied. Tart, cherry flavour. Very clean but in a good way. Mouthpuckering finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Oct 2017
at 07:56
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 9
At tour de geuze afterparty. Pours pinkish red, small white head. Smell has some cherries. Taste is cherrie, very, very mild sourness. Not as hollow as the one I had before, but still not great to me.
Tried
on 19 Aug 2017
at 08:06
5.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
From the backlog. Dark red. No head. Tart, little butryic. Lactic, butyric, vomitous, but there’s some fruit way in the back. Nevertheless, this is overwhelming and I might have to just walk away from it.
Tried
on 17 Aug 2017
at 01:28
8/10
Tried
on 29 Jul 2017
at 20:49