6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
The aroma is sweet with slight sour notes. The color is a beutiful clear red and it has a light brown head, though fast disappearing. The flavor is rather sweet with a nice taste of the wooden cask. It is rather carbonized for a Framboise. It ends on a dry acidic notes combined with nice mellow notes of the wild fermentation: metal and sourness. A nice Framboise - though a little on the sweet side.
Tried
from Cask
on 13 Oct 2003
at 16:57
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 9
[Draft at Stockholm Beer Festival 2003] An orange beer with a bubbly disappearing head. The aroma is a sweet and sour lambic aroma. The flavor is nice: a little moldy "mug", sour, and sweet with notes of fruit and "nellikker". A good lambic
Tried
from Draft
on 08 Oct 2003
at 17:20
6.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
(White label, commercial) Deep red, slightly hazy. Very slight pinkish-white head. Sweet nose, artificial-cherry. Sweet, sweet cherries, like cherry-gums. Bweeuk! medium-bodied. Too sweet by any standard, too artifical. Girardin ought to correct this - this is for children.
Tried
on 25 May 2003
at 00:17
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
(There exists young - under 1 year- and old lambic. The one tasted is young - just so) Clear amber-orange colour. Virtually no head. Nose of grapes, sulphury, lactic acid, sour apples, barnyard. Some sweetness left: grape-y, even sultana’s. Not dry - medium-bodied, like a sweet sherry. Fruity, sweet lambic with a nice balance, but quite uncharacteristic for the style.
Tried
on 24 May 2003
at 15:43
9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 8
Sampled draught at Akkurat, Stockholm, Sweden.
Dark clear red. Aroma of black cherries. Fruity and intensely flavourful with balanced acidity. Though it is complex and very vinous, and the flavour of the cherries is just wonderful it takes a bit of the edge of the complexity of the unblended lambic, making it only slightly less superb.
Dark clear red. Aroma of black cherries. Fruity and intensely flavourful with balanced acidity. Though it is complex and very vinous, and the flavour of the cherries is just wonderful it takes a bit of the edge of the complexity of the unblended lambic, making it only slightly less superb.
Tried
on 28 Apr 2003
at 23:28
9.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 10
Flavor 10
Texture 10
Overall 9
Sampled draught at Akkurat, Stockholm, Sweden.
Deep golden with some haze. Very fruity with notes of tart berries. Sour, but the acidity is beautifully balanced by the intense, complex flavours. There are notes of barnyard, dry white wine, wood and more. This beer is a wonderful experience. I can't think of any other beers which is bith this thirst quenching, and also super-complex and flavourful.
Deep golden with some haze. Very fruity with notes of tart berries. Sour, but the acidity is beautifully balanced by the intense, complex flavours. There are notes of barnyard, dry white wine, wood and more. This beer is a wonderful experience. I can't think of any other beers which is bith this thirst quenching, and also super-complex and flavourful.
Tried
from Can
on 28 Apr 2003
at 01:18
8.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
I wish I had read a couple of the previous ratings - especially the ones that told about exploding bottles. Well as it turns this might turn out to be my most expensive beer so far as it cost me a new keyboard - but that did not really bother me that much (old keyboard), it is much worse that most beer of the beer escaped before i could drink it... Well this is what I get from the 126.8 ml i had left: (Black label) Aroma has cobwebs and blue bheese in it (in a good way). Murky orange which looked a lot better in the glas than on my wall. Complex sour tastenotes: Mainly earthy notes topped of with a lactic fruityness (grapes,strawbeerries) the whole beer is wonderfully round and wellbalanced and I sit back with a sour aftertaste that slowly fades away and wish I have had more of this brew.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Apr 2003
at 14:29
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Pale red colour, rosy. No head. Nose of raspberry jam, and somewhere an aroma which you usually hang in your smallest chamber, after seeing it advertised on ITV by a skipping housewife. Taste : raspberry jam again; including slight acidity, fruit acids, fruit sugars and pectines! Very flat, some stickiness - from the pectine? Aftertaste is raspberry flavour again. Disappointing. Could be so much more, with just a bit more lambic character (and somewhat less... perfume, let's call it)
Tried
on 13 Mar 2003
at 13:21
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
This is one of the best Krieks i’ve had. Not too sweet, definitely oak-conditioned. Complex, well balanced. Very good kriek!
Tried
on 10 Mar 2003
at 15:48
9.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 10
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
BLACK LABEL (=unfiltered)! Goden colour with slight orangey shine. For a gueuze, remarkably stable head, dirty-yellow. Nose of 'horseblanket', fresh flowers, sulphur, green apples and drying hay. Very dry is the immediate impression, yet carbonisation all over the place - together with the tannines, the onslaught on the front teeth is complete, no tartar left - if I weren't a dentist myself, mine would be out of work, now. The real taste is purely retronasal; citrus, pineapple, green apple, lime, lactic (no acetic). Yet there is a strain of sweetness - like in 'speculaas' grain-biscuits Belgain style. Mouthfeel is undistinguishable from the taste, as above. Close my eyes, and I'm in a horse stable, the animal still steaming from the exercise, closeby the summerharvest of still hot grain, apples, straw is being stored. Words of my vocabulary are not sufficient. Would I have smoked pot in my younger days, I might have found them. Then, I have not.
Tried
on 05 Mar 2003
at 13:44