Bottle @ tasting shared with TomHendriksen and Inoven. Hazy dark red-purple color, virtually no head. Aroma is heavily artificial cherry, chewing gum / bubble gum. Flavor is slightly less bad: sweetish, cherry, lightly oak, less artificial. Ok body and carbonation. Decent.

Flesje gedeeld door Benzai. Mooi roze bier zonder schuim. Geur van kauwgom en sepsteel. Smaak is zuur maar toch een zoete afdronk.

Kriek version in this series of commercialized Limburg hobby brews, shared by tderoeck. Thin and quickly dissolving, off-white head over a hazy cherry red beer with vaguely brownish tinge to it. Aroma of cherry candy, red Haribo candy, strawberry bubblegum, old cloth, dry hay, glue, orange juice, something vaguely sweaty. Very sweet onset, tooth-achingly cloying, grenadine, sticky red candy (’dropveters’ and the like), medium carbo, soapy mouthfeel, bit glueish - but as said, mostly impaired by this exaggerated sugary sweetness. Something sourish does lurk underneath, but much in the same, dim, generic and unidentifiable way as in the more well-known sweet krieks - in other words, nothing in here is to be recognized as truly lambic-like. Ends with the same sticky candy sweetness as it began, with that same thinly sourish undertone and a very faint hayish hop accent not providing any bitterness - or even character - at all. Claims to be made with real lambic, but that goes for e.g. Mort Subite Xtreme Kriek as well and if anything, in this day and age lambic does no longer deserve to be treated like that (not that it ever did as far as I’m concerned). Liquid red candy, absolutely not my taste.