Schaarbeekse Kriek
Geuzestekerij Odilon in Bever, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Lambic Style - Kriek Special|
Score
7.25
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Kraddel (15844) reviewed Schaarbeekse Kriek from Geuzestekerij Odilon 3 months ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Pours dark purplered. Scent is intense cherry, including the pits. Taste is surprisingly tart, quite intense . 'swiming pool' which is always a great attribute for good cherry beers. brett, funk, wood. Obviously fruity as well. Def to the drier side. Very agreeable cherry beer, perhaps a bit 'light' on the fruit intensity though - but it's not like it's hidden at all.
gave a cheers!
mcberko (47456) reviewed Schaarbeekse Kriek from Geuzestekerij Odilon 5 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle pour at WBF 2025, pours a hazy dark amber red with a small beige head. Aroma has bright, dry cherries, leather, and a touch of funk. Flavour has some dry cherries, gentle funk, leather, and hay. Nice cherry expression, gentle funk, some hay.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle pour at Warsaw Beer Festival 2025. Pours murky dull red with a pink head. Musty wood, tart cherry pits, gentle tannins on the nose. Flavour has tart cherries, lots of musty wood, cherry pits, light tannins. Great.
EvNa (6056) ticked Schaarbeekse Kriek from Geuzestekerij Odilon 10 months ago
Bottle. First Odilon for me. Color: Clear lightly pinkish red, pink-purple head. Aroma: Wood, cherries, some funk. Taste: Cherry kernel, wood, tannins, subtle rural funk and subtle cherry. Light tartness and also some sweetness. Smooth, a bit creamy mouthfeel. Medium body, below average carbonation. Very easy drinkable Kriek. A bit too easy for me personally. A bit dull.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Schaarbeekse Kriek from Geuzestekerij Odilon 11 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8
New lambic blender Odilon in Bever, at the southwestern edge of Pajottenland, is meaning business lately with several new creations popping up - this one tackling the prestigious Schaarbeekse variant of cherry lambic, with locally grown fruit (and a concentration of 350 g/l). The 37.5 cl corked bottle opens with a hiss and some gun smoke - starts off fine. Thick and frothy, very loudly crackling, very pillowy and dense, slowly collapsing but generally very well-retaining and firm, pale off-pink head on a misty, warm vermillion red robe with ruby glow and strings of fierce sparkling rushing through the mist. Aroma of actual fresh cherries, cherry pits, old dry wood, some light 'swimming pool' typical for cherry lambics in general, red plum, dry haystack, apricot kernels, lingonberries harvested on a heath, homemade cherry wine, red grapes, apple skin, light almond, dark green tree leaves, soggy bread, bit of dry leather but rather low in 'funk'. Juicy onset, lemony and redcurrant-like sour edges but clear sour cherries within, adding fleshiness and obvious cherry flavours - not just the fruit, but cherry tree leaves too; the typical fullness and fleshiness I tend to associate with specifically Schaarbeekse kriek, though, remains limited - even a bit on the thin side. Side aspects of plum and apple peel as well, lively carbonation with strong minerally effects; supple body, vinous, with a bready core, soaked in lactic acidity in a 'malse' way, as well as in fruit juice, retaining a very 'genuine' sour cherry flavour all the way through. Juicy and woody finish, lingering sharper acids here and there (redcurrant-like) but also this cherry juice effect in a very honest kind of way - I am reminded of the sour cherries straight from the tree in my grandmother's garden thirty-odd years ago (the ones I used to make a cherry-steeped 'jenever' with). Woody tannins are notably reinforced by the tannins from the cherry skins and seeds, while this distinct minerality - as in ferrous spring water - clings to the root of the tongue, making for a 'lighter' effect than I am used to in this particular genre. Many of these Schaarbeekse cherry lambics, still a distinct subvariant of kriek in general with its own twists, seem to want to stress fleshiness and richness these days, but this one does it in a lighter-bodied, more slender way - but maybe we lambicheads have just been spoiled in the past two decades, because if I had this before the great lambic revival, I would have easily enjoyed it for the pure, convincing kriek that it is. No strings attached here: this is effectively 'just' a lambic blend macerated with Schaarbeekse cherries, just not to the extreme. In that sense - combined with the 'malse' character of the lambic - this is among the most easily and smoothly drinkable cherry lambics I had in a long time, something one could regard as a flaw in a certain sense, but just as well as a plus. In all: not the most overwhelming example in this very specific subset of fruit lambics by far, just a genuine, natural, smooth, 'light' and elegant one, but definitely a well-made one.