No date is notched on the Best Before label, but the latest it goes is 2000, so I’ve got to imagine this to be at most a 2000, with the possibility (and probability) that it is actually more like a 97-99. Anyways, 750mL bottle consumed by myself on 8/17/2005.
Smells of band-aids, bretty and dry, with a light medicinal funkiness. Cherry-raspberry jam flavor on the end. Big ruddy-raspberry flecked beige colored head that quickly fizzles down, but remains about one-finger high. Intensely tiny bubbles and a very hazy/opaque deep strawberry color. Aroma out of the glass is powerful and very interesting. Tart, funky, wooly-dusty aroma. Much similarity to a kriek lambic. Flavor is rubber, plastic, tart, tart yeast and a dry sourness on the end. Lemon-rind and medicine and black pepper. Good lord this is tart! Extremely dusty and medicinal. Very dry and seems quite attenuated, though I know this stuff is very old, so that explains that. Really well-made, though. Not watery, or overly yeasty. Probably the most incredible part of this was what happened upon adding the yeast shot to my glass. Bigger, sweeter flavors now with a wonderful, chewy yeast and cherry-pie flavor. It does quite the opposite of dulling the flavor. REALLY good at the bottom of the bottle. Alcohol becomes somewhat noticeable. Soft and fuzzy cherries, alcohol undertones, some bits of honey or maybe just cherry sweetness. With the yeast shot, this beer is second to none! Sweet, mellow, soft and juicy; just perfect really. I’d be crazy if I didn’t think this as good as most krieks (lambic or no lambic). Not quite on the level of Cantillon, perhaps not the mouthfeel and very well developed bacteria and sourness that I enjoy, but quite incredible in its own right. Thanks for the tip, David!

Good off-white head, dwindling at lightspeed; red, hazy beer. Sourish, fruity nose with all the great acids, cherry, redcurrent, lactic, yoghurt. Mellow sourish, creamy-cherry taste, 100% natural flavours, complex in no way juice could ever achieve. Some cake-bottom tasting malts. Medium bodied, full-fruit body. Great, absolutely top non-lambic cherrybeer.