‘Gentse kriek’, a sweet cherry beer produced by De Graal, with a name in Ghent dialect meaning threshold (but with obvious sexual innuendo); at Trappistenhuis, after years of skipping this pub without any other reason than it being a tad off-road. Thanks Meeki for sharing. Frothy and thick, pale lilac-pink, foamy head resting stable on a misty, deep ruby red beer. Aroma of red candy (‘poepegatjes’), cherry-flavoured flan, homemade red lemonade, grenadine, sandwich dough, ‘cuberdons’, cherry popsicle. Cherry jelly pudding and red candy abound in the mouth, fizzy carb, some ascorbid acidity (lemonade-like) tries to distract from that red candy sweetness but barely succeeds – and in my opinion could have better been left out altogether as it creates an even more artificial impression. Cake-doughy and cereally core, sugared cherry juice and red candy till the end, with some redeeming bready-yeasty notes in the finish but very little bitterness – and, worst of all, hardly any ‘real’ fruit aspects. This is not just a cherry beer, this is another of those awful ‘rouge’ beers: alcoholic candy for teenagers. I hate this trend, though I must admit that this De Graal interpretation of it is not even the worst around.