Ghost Kriek
Bokke (Methode Goat) in Hasselt, Limburg, Belgium 🇧🇪
Sour / Wild Beer - Flavoured Regular|
Score
8.25
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bier4der (3351) ticked Ghost Kriek (2016) from Bokke (Methode Goat) 6 years ago
Klimaet (3573) reviewed Ghost Kriek from Bokke (Methode Goat) 6 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9
Tap @ MBCC 2017. Pours deep red. Aroma has a lot of cherries, some underripe tart cherries but mostly just fresh, juicy cherries, some almondy vanilla, light floral notes. Taste is super jammy aswell, lots of cherries, fresh tartness, lots of sweetness, sweet almondy cherry notes in the back.
neongolden (4416) reviewed Ghost Kriek from Bokke (Methode Goat) 8 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
(On tap @ MBCC 2017 Yellow Session, Copenhagen) Pours a clear intense dark red with a pink head. Aroma explodes with jammy cherries, sweet and tart with a touch of skin, touches of almond, oak and a touch of grass. Flavour again is bursting with sweet/tart jammy cherry, amaretto, light oak, soft grassy funk, touch of citrus playing into the tartness, lightly tart core finishes dry with lots of lingering cherry. Medium bodied, grippy, slightly soft carbonation. Very little saison character but who cares, this is damn delicious fruit explosion and the people walking around with water bottles of it were lucky sods.
fonefan (84534) reviewed Ghost Kriek from Bokke (Methode Goat) 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Sample @ MBCC '17 [ Yellow Session ]. - Mikkeller Beer Copenhagen Celebration 2017, Øksnehallen, Halmtorvet 11, 1700 København V, Danmark. [ As Bokkereyder Kriek Saison ].Clear dark red - purple colour with a large, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, purple head. Aroma is moderate barnyard, leather, heavy cherry, cherry stone, almond. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and moderate acidic with a long duration, tart, cherry, cherry stones, leather, funky. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20170512] 9-4-8-4-17
jtclockwork (20061) reviewed Ghost Kriek from Bokke (Methode Goat) 8 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9.5
Magnum pour - pours dark red pink head - nose and taste of cherries, funk, oak and saison yeasty funk - medium body
Sebletitje (15877) reviewed Ghost Kriek from Bokke (Methode Goat) 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
@ BXLfest 2017. Couleur pourpre, doré au verre, pas de col. Arôme offre, même avec les cerises, une petite douceur au niveau des effluves, retrouve presque un effet de vanille avec un rétro de noyau tenace de cerise. Palais est profond au niveau des cerises avec encore un renforcement de fine douceur, petite touche épicée, presque de cannelle - effet Fantôme? ou de la levure Fantôme? Effervescence est faible et aurait pu être un poil plus relevée.
Kraddel (15844) reviewed Ghost Kriek from Bokke (Methode Goat) 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Big thnx to kevin !! From bxl beerfest. Pours intensely dark red, almost black. Damn. Smell is full on cherrys , swimingpool ( what I always have in intense cherry beers ) taste is extremely cherry , extremely full. Very intense ! Not really sour, not much lambic left. For the extreme fruitlovers !
mart (27297) reviewed Ghost Kriek from Bokke (Methode Goat) 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
BXLBeerfest. Pours deep red. Aroma is fruits, booze, vanilla, cherries. Flavor is sour and bitter, cherries, cherry stones, slight vanilla, some aciditiy. Overall: very good
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Ghost Kriek from Bokke (Methode Goat) 8 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 10 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Finally, thanks to the epic BXL Beerfest, my first encounter with this Bokkereyder hype - basically the work of a young Limburg guy, Raf Souvereyns, who buys and passionately blends 'real' lambics and other artisanal beers for a hobby, now going commercial, in a very limited way. His products, blended to his personal insights in how lambic is supposed to be blended, are a huge hit abroad, but sadly very difficult to find in the home country - I sincerely hope he has plans to expand on this matter, but obviously the combination of (in this case extremely) limited availability and highly enthusiastic reviews from those lucky enough to sample these products, has lead to what is now probably the biggest beer hype in Belgium. This one is apparently a sour 'kriek' packed with Schaarbeek cherries, from a 75 cl bottle and containing not just lambic, but Fantôme Saison as well. Loose, bubbly head, more or less stable though, of a colour I have never seen in any beer, a very deep, dazzlingly beautiful dark purplish fuchsia, as if a ruby port wine would have a head; the colour of the beer itself is a very dark and deep fuchsia-hued purple red, almost like concentrated black cherry juice. Absolutely ravishing, intense aroma, an immense amount of ripe black cherries, cherry juice and cherry wine dominating, but made complex by side notes of forest fruit yoghurt, ripe blackberries, elderberry syrup, cherry pit tannins, wet wood, faint hints of sweat, damp hay and sherry. The flavour was as intense as this unworldly aroma promised: an overload of ripe black cherries and noble sour cherries, cherry juice galore, almost drowning the esteriness of the lambic, though unripe stonefruit and gooseberry notes remain palpable underneath this heavy, thick layer of ripe cherry wine; carbonation is soft, mouthfeel full and smooth, almost velvety, with an soft underlying breadiness which probably comes from the saison component. A hint of tomato pops up somewhere in between, lactic sourness dries the entire palate alongside the natural tartness of the fruit, some lemony aspects too, ending in cherry skin and cherry pit astringency, aided by the vinous and estery qualities of the lambics, with a dash of soaky oak wood thrown in for good measure. Cherry skin tannins at the back lend this beverage an even stronger red wine-like character; the ’rotundity’ and relative softness, fluffiness and breadiness of this beer is probably due to the Fantôme part, feeling a bit less astringent and vinous than it likely would have been if it were completely lambic, but otherwise the saison element is all but invisible. Doesn’t matter, though: I assume being this small and limited allows Raf Souvereyns to add as much cherry as he wishes - and this shows. This is among the most spectacular fruit beers I ever had the honour to taste, it became instantly clear to me why the name Bokkereyder has become so resounding these days - the hype is completely deserved if this beer is taken as a typical example of his works. We have a genius blender at work here, so I have no other option but to give this an exceptionally high score. If only these Bokkereyder lambics would become more widely available!
77ships (14506) reviewed Ghost Kriek from Bokke (Methode Goat) 8 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 10 | Flavor - 10 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 10
Thank you for sharing RB crew! Sampled draft @ BXLBeerFest 2017. My first official Bokkereyder, kind of hoped that it would suck but its spectacular nuts, I tried a dozen or so homeblends before he went official and wasn’t to crazy about them. If this is his current level, his improvement in quality has been insane. Colour is spectacular darkest brightest deepest purple cherry red, deepest pink head which sadly doesn’t last. Taste is phenomenal ripe sweet cherries, so bright, juice, almost jam, seriously how much fruit is in here? Taste is wonderful cherry juice, feels almost a bit more like sweet than sour cherries, thick pure juice body, Bordeaux finish, phenomenal, nuts. Curious to see this actually appear in Belgium. I got zero Fantôme saison here.