Oude Kriekenlambik "Toast"
Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen in Lot, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Lambic Style - Kriek Regular Out of Production|
Score
8.15
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This entry is for the versions of Kriekenlambiek that were aged on a toasted barrel.
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9
Bottle, 750 ml, courtesy of Werckmeister. Shared with him and others. (season 17 - 18) Blend No. 15. Ruby purple with off white head. Super intensive cherries, cherry pits, touch of vanilla, juicy, some barrel. Beautiful.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
0,75l bottle at Ambasada, Zagreb shared by me. Deep red color, small pink head. smells cherries, funky, earthy, grassy, bit toasty. Very nice one smell. full body, soft carbonation. tastes cherries, earthy, grassy, peppery tobacco, bit lactic. finishes dry and lightly sour with notes of cherries, lactic and earthy notes. Nice stuff. Bit on the sour side but nowhere near as bad as some newer blends.
8, 8, 7.5, 7, 7.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9.5
Bottle thanks to Paul. Pours a dark ruby with small pinkish head that diminishes quickly. The aroma is cherry pit, funk, vanilla, oak. Medium body, jammy, sweet cherry, oak, nice funk, enjoyed this.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Sour cherry lambic by 3F made in oak barrels that have been ‘freshly toasted’, bottle from Lambik-O-Droom, one of only 318 apparently – something tells me this is a whale in the making, but heck, let’s open the bottle and drink it the way it was intended to be. Some large, loose, purple-hued bubbles form upon pouring, but they disappear quickly – this is indeed unblended cherry lambic from a bottle; absolutely ravishing colour, a deep, intense fuchsia red with glowing ruby hue – a beautiful sight to behold and it is at this point already very clear that the cherry dosage in this one is far higher than average. Aroma follows: cooked cherry juice and cherry wine galore, overseeing subtler notes of vanilla-ish oak (though not so much ‘toasted’), wet barrel, sweat, redcurrant, elderberry, lemon juice, boiled down red wine vinegar. Extremely full cherry flavour, very real and overwhelming cherry juice effect, concentrated, tart with a sharp redcurrant- and lemon-like edge but some softening fructose sweetness within as well, almost like ripe black sweet cherries; close to no carbonation and of course none expected. Supple wheaty base completely drowned in cherry juice, vinous and softly woody in the end with retronasal sweaty Brettanomyces hints; some red wine vinegar sourness in the finish adds complexity but this remains cherry wine with a slight beery aspect to it till the very end. As an unblended cherry lambic, an absolute masterpiece, but I don’t expect anything less from this fabulous lambic proponent anyway. I assume this formula will be continued for use in blended Oude Kriek?
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 10 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle @ Ratebeer Odense, 2018. SFO, Peter, Halling, Scheffel and MrOrla. Pours ruby red with bubbles on top. Insane aroma. Sweet cherries, Wood. Jammy as What. Intense. Vanilla. Tart and dry. Complex!
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 10 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
Odense lambic evening in October. Red with a small pink head. Aroma of cherry and almond with great complex funk like wood, leather and band-aid (in a good way). Dry and tart sour-cherry flavour, along with vanilla and excellent funk. Maybe it's the sour cherry, I think this is the most sour 3F I've had
