6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bloody purple-red colour. Has a medicinal character with deep cherries, some sugary sweetness and slight phenols underneath. Sweet fruity flavours, some clean acidic undertones. Reminds me of Lindeman's Kriek, only thicker. Still on the sweeter side of things, though the ingredients don't list sugar (but they do list cherry juice).
Tried
on 10 Jan 2004
at 12:26
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 8
If you are going to drink a lambic, drink this, the belgians make sokme fine stuff but this is really good, I mean its just like juice, u know if thats your thing.
Tried
on 06 Nov 2003
at 19:53
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Old gold colour, clear; (white) head, nearly immediately gone. Nose of concentrated apricot, as in "crème de.." or apricot filling. Again, as in the strawberry, it has an alcoholic character. Weird. No other aroma's. Apricot filling in the taste again, with a burning mouth sensation. Acids? Fruit concentrate?? No possible reminiscence of Cantillon FouFoune. Empty finish, a bit dry. Overall, the most disappointing of the 3 Melbournes. Not a lambic in any way. Actually most like expected...
Tried
from Can
on 07 May 2003
at 12:54
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Amber-red, clear; slight white-pink head. Strawberry & alcohol - like the "Delph" cocktail syrup; also strawberry cake-with-alcohol. Underneath I seem to detect some Brettanomyces/"horseblanket". Slight sourish taste, even some tartness. Strawberry flavour-and-cake, but more subdued than in the nose. Fruit acids are more lemony, or even "kiwi"(Chinese gooseberry). I could actually like this. Light mouthfeel, but fruit and sugar give some body. More to my liking than the cherry, it somehow rings more 'true'. I'm at a loss how a 3.4 ABV beer can get alcoholimpression in the nose.
Tried
from Can
on 07 May 2003
at 12:19
7.3/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Deep red, clear; pink light head, irregular. Hard cherry-sweets nose; background aroma of red fruit. Quite sweet taste, artificial-fruity, but as in the nose, there is a background flavour talking of better and truer things. Lemony finish, or not-quite ripe raspberry. Refreshing, quite good fruity body. Long sourish, nearly tart aftertaste, but the artificial overlying flavour won't get away neither. D*mn. They're close. Just this horrible cherry 'juice' (read: watered concentrate). Why not just real cherries? I'm told the 'lambic' is quite OK. Mind you, a lot of Belgian commercial krieks are much worse.
Tried
on 06 May 2003
at 12:16
5.2/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 7
Only the slightest pink tinting in this beer - otherwise very light amber. Fruity sweet aroma and tart puckeringly sour mouthfeel. Strangely similar to their apricot due to the strong sourness and wineyness. Perhaps a bit more wine-coolerish than their apricot version - due to the sweeter berry flavors. The fruitiness would be hard to identify as strawberry though - if you didn't know ahead of time. Definitely not as good as their Apricot.
Tried
on 25 Jun 2002
at 13:21
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Updated rating: Dark yellow gold, no head. Aroma of sweet white wine and apricots, plus other light fruitiness. Very light, spicy hop aroma. Lightly fizzy, tart, puckering in the mouth. Winey. Otherwise clean. Interesting British spontaneously fermented beer. Very different than the lambic wild yeasts - tart, but clean, no weird esters. Has a light bitterness, though barely detectable, really keeps this sweet beer from being cloying.
Tried
on 24 Jun 2002
at 12:08
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Red coloured. Balanced acidity and fresh strawberry flavour. Sparkling mouthfeel. Interesting experiment.
Tried
on 25 Feb 2002
at 09:58
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Sweetish flavour. The flavours are kind of masked by the fruit in this version.
Tried
on 28 Nov 2000
at 21:05
8.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
A little English lambic for you. Apricot is the better of the two - fruity, winey on the nose, and a dry, slightly sour palate showing the sweetness of apricot and tartness of wheat and spontaneous fermentation.
Tried
on 23 Sep 2000
at 20:49