6.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 4
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
The aroma is sweet and sour with notes of wood and (too old?) candy sugar - maybe the fact that it was 4 years past last expiry date caused the "old" aroma. The color is dark amber and poures with a fine head. The flavor is lovely sweet combined with sourness and notes of caramel and hints of the wild fermentation.
Tried
from Can
on 03 Apr 2004
at 11:45
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
The aroma is of peach, wild fermentation and hints of dust and metal. The color is beutiful, somewhere between pink and orange (maybe peach?) and the head is beutiful too. The flavor is very sweet (a bit too sweet for my liking) but on a sour background. The sourness draws the mouthwater. In the end it turns somewhat dry and leaves you with a strong peach flavor.
Tried
on 03 Apr 2004
at 06:09
5.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 5
Orange-red-amber, (tea)totally clear; short dense yellowish head. Quite fruity nose, faint whiff of Brett and lambicpipes, sourish. Sourish taste, very wood, and lemon. And at the end, there's an aftertaste - I somehow recognise it as tea (I ought to, given that tea is the only beverage I drink more than beer). No Earl Grey, no Assam or Nilgiris here - the worst of Lipton-on-ice, lemon flavour included. Artificial lemon, at that, out of a yellow plastic bottle. Even not refreshing - too much sugar added. Beyond awful. In my own classification, it doesn't even get a tick. This is juvenile soft drink, not beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Mar 2004
at 13:48
4.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4
2003 Draft at Cadieux Cafe in Detroit. Dark purple-red strawberry looking color, completely opaque with a solid light pink-cream head that sticks around for a while. Aroma of fresh raspberries, and wet towels. Good mix of sweetness and funk. Flavor is full and powerful, but fortunately, not as terribly sweet as the kriek. Big bold spicy raspberry flavor, quite authentic and not fake tasting. As it gets extremely sweet with raspberries the gueuze in the background picks up and a nice and much needed sourness comes on, slightly balancing this beer. Again, as with every Lindemans product I’ve tried, the lightly spritzy almost chewy carbonation gives it as good a texture as I could want. Like the Kuhnhenn Raspberry Eisbock, there’s probably too much raspberry, but only a bit too much, and if you are in the mood for something sweet, this delivers. 7/5/7/3/16
Bottle at the 4/17/2005 Montreal tasting. Better than the cassis, and kriek, but terribly sweet and syrupy, like thick raspberry jam. I will average the ratings of this, since the draught version is significantly more palateable. 6/4/5/3/10
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Bottle at the 4/17/2005 Montreal tasting. Better than the cassis, and kriek, but terribly sweet and syrupy, like thick raspberry jam. I will average the ratings of this, since the draught version is significantly more palateable. 6/4/5/3/10
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Tried
from Draft
on 19 Mar 2004
at 10:41
6.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
A clear red beer with a huge beutiful pink head. The aroma is totally dominated by cherries. The flavor is also dominated by cherries, but on a woody background and hints of sourness. It is only hints of the wild fermentation - and that is a little sad. Drink it cold as an apperitif - but don't expect a real lambic from this beer.
Tried
on 14 Mar 2004
at 16:40
5.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
375mL bottle, no date (looks pretty new). Nice pale gold with some light brass hues. Towards the end of the bottle, with the sediment, it takes on a fully hazy appearance with multiple distinct colors making it look like there are two different liquids in there. Quite cool. Good large off-white head. Aroma is quite nice, light green apples, some soft, medium ripe farm cheese, light hay and big sour yeasty goodness. Aroma lasts too. Begins with a moderately tart hop bite followed by a sugary sweet medium body. Tapers off in to a lightly bitter finish with some lingering sticky sweetness, like a sweet and sour fruit chew. Flavor is quite sweet for a gueuze and I will admit to wanting more tartness. Seems very very young, though the body only being medium makes me wonder how long you could realistically age this for. Good mouthfeel, as with most lindeman products, bottle conditioned carbonation provides for just the right amount of zing to balance out the malt sweetness. Wheat adds an interesting neutral papery texture, but is not that noticeable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Mar 2004
at 09:55
4.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4
I drank the Souvenirs Kriek, 3.5 %. Clear red color, short pink head. Aroma of artifical cherry sweets. Taste is also immensely sweet of cherry candy, no sourness at all.
Tried
from Can
on 29 Feb 2004
at 06:33
5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4
Not surprisingly, pours a dark blueberry color with a touch of light reddish-tan head. Bottle conditioned. Aroma of dry currants, brown bread baking in the oven and a bitterness coming from the yeast or currant tannins. Body is medium and very heavily acidic and sour. But it’s not a nice lambic kind of sour, it’s a way too much cassis kind of sour. It’s like they dumped a ton of cassis peel extract in. On the finish is a bittersweet flavor that waxes quite sweet and reminds me of those gourmet fruit candies (the sugary blackberry ones). I had to fight to finish this one, and that almost NEVER happens. Better than the kriek but still vastly unbalanced. How do these people make these fruit lambics and also make the Cuvee Rene? Mind boggling. . .
Rerate I don’t know why I sugar coated my numbers, well actually it was because these were the first "lambics" I ever had and couldnt compare. All fruit syrup, powerfully sweet, chalky, syrupy, cloying, simple.
Rerate I don’t know why I sugar coated my numbers, well actually it was because these were the first "lambics" I ever had and couldnt compare. All fruit syrup, powerfully sweet, chalky, syrupy, cloying, simple.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Feb 2004
at 15:56
7.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 5
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
Bottle (red label, 3,5% alc.)
Beautiful red cherish colour and lots of carbonation. Aroma is cherry-chocolate candy with some yeasty smell. Gives small cherry-red head which disappears quickly. Taste is cherry with yeasty carbonation par with aroma. Gives good dry and sour aftertaste.
Beautiful red cherish colour and lots of carbonation. Aroma is cherry-chocolate candy with some yeasty smell. Gives small cherry-red head which disappears quickly. Taste is cherry with yeasty carbonation par with aroma. Gives good dry and sour aftertaste.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Feb 2004
at 06:36
8.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 10
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
I love this stuff. hard to find and spendy. A bit on the tart side and strong rasberry flavor. Just the right amount of carbonation. I just want to slug it down. Yum !
Tried
on 23 Jan 2004
at 14:56