5.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
330 ml. bottle sampled @ home. Text on the back label actually says that this is a blend of a top fermented and a Kriek Lambic (sic) I kid you not, the ingredients contain an E-number. Sigh. Given the name & ABV, I figure that they are trying to get the people that are into the infamous Kasteel Rouge. The one big high ABV Kriek I can thick of on the market. Pours a ruby amber with a dirty off-pink / off-white head. Nose is super intense gelatin cherry candy, sweet to the max, faint metal, mainly just the extreme candy. Taste is this chemical cherry candy with big muted metallic, lightly mineral note, chemical, vague bitter plants, washing powder, paper finish. Cherry gelatin candy is too much muted by these things in the taste, getting too much washing powder, paper, plaster,… Body is dry mineral, plaster,… I would have minded this one too much if it was just massive gelatin cherry candy as the nose indicated. This is a beer clearly meant for one purpose to get drunk & its appeal is teens & people who do not like pale lager but looking to get plastered, women who oppose pale lager (rightfully so, they clearly have some pallet I think), you know the crowd I mean, those will be okay with this, this drinks easier than let us say vodka & soda, there is not much point discussing this beer given the market, slim picking in high ABV sweetened Kriek & I did not like Kasteel Rouge despite the high scores (relatively speaking).
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Apr 2016
at 15:59