Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
Taster from bottle, at the Balmoral Brewhaha. Looks like currants are about the heaviest fruit flavor you can put into a beer. Big currant flavor and nose here, folks, that can’t help but overwhelm any beer base, but I guess that’s expected. Very sweet, too; I couldn’t locate much tartness. Kind of runs toward the flavor of those IHOP pancake syrups. If you know that going in and looking for it, this would be fine.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle. Strong sweet raspberry aroma with light musty barnyard as well. Dark cherry red color with small head. Strong sweet-tart raspberry flavor - mild lambic mustiness. A sweet ’lambic’ - not traditional - very similar to Lindemans.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Bottle. Sweet cherry and musty basement aroma. Dark cherry red with small head. Sweet/sour cherry blended with musty flavor. Another non-traditional (or if you prefer fake) fruit lambic that is very sweet altough is does maintain some lambic qualities. If you like Lindemans you’ll like this but traditionalists will hate it for its inauthenticity.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle. Beautiful pink head with good duration. Color is cherry red. Aroma is sweet cherry. Taste is fresh and cherry. A bit sour as well - but in a good sense.
SHIG (13882) reviewed Brigand Belgian Ale from Brouwerij Vanhonsebrouck 19 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Orangish in color with foamy white head. Sweet caramel malt and hint of fruit throught. Copperish intial taste burst into rich malt finish.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Beer tasting sampler at Binny’s, Orland Park. A little trifecta at work here: tasing the Peche, Kriek, and now this. Not much in the tartness area, considering the style. Like the other two lambics I rated, this comes across as somewhat creamy more than anything else. Certainly has a lot of juice to it, but not much in the way of beer to match.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Beer tasting sampler at Binny’s, Orland Park. Almost a peaches & cream quality to it. Very little peach or lambic tartness. Comes across like a fizzy peach schnapps.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Beer tasting sampler at Binny’s, Orland Park. Looks like a cherry soda. Very fizzy and foamy. This has a more noticable fruit tartness than the Peche, but again, not much sourness considering the style.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Cherry red with white pinky head. Incredibly sweet. This is a kriek for beginners. Very easy drinkable and not very complex. Cherries throughout! Doesnt quite cut it for me!
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 4.5
Bottle: Poured a clear light copper color beer with a small fuzzy head with minimal retention. Aroma of peach syrup is totally dominant. The peach syrup, which I am not too fond of to begin with, and some very subtle sourness also dominate taste. I would have Lindemans pêche any days over this, which I guess says a lot about my fondness for peach based beer.