Fluttering tart cherry theme and sweet soda sugaring provide winning essence. Musty grain overtones and moderate hop bitterness never suffocate authentic cherry flavor. Dark burgundy-hued appearance misleading for such an easy-to-drink ale.
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LIEFMANS KRIEKBIER
(DE KEERSMAEKER) MORT SUBITE KRIEK LAMBIC
Prevalent cherry-soured essence and penetrating stone-fruited waft underscored by musty horse-blanketed hay musk and leathery wheat-dried parch. Oaken cherry midst gains raspberry, cranberry and red grape illusions. Spontaneous yeast fermentation aids subsidiary vinous champagne tartness of exquisite digestif.
LINDEMAN’S KRIEK LAMBIC
Fine reddish-hazed pink-headed Lambic with cap-cork setup, overpowering cherry aroma, and eye-squinting stone-fruited tartness best served with sherbet. Sour black cherries ripen dry oak undercurrent to tertiary barley-wheat spine. An obvious fruity crossover with its distinctive cherry soda spritz, ancillary citric brightness and sparkling champagne fizz.
NEW BELGIUM TRANSATLANTIQUE KRIEK ALE
Blending Frank Boon’s imported oak-aged Belgian cherries with raspy American hops, this enticing pinkish amber lambic-fermented creation rivals finest dessert beer from New Glarus. Tart medicinal cherry frontage given muted quince-grape seduction and ester-y grapefruit tang anticipated dry-spiced stone-fruited finish maintains.
RODENBACH RED BACH
Fantastic Kriek-like red ale retains perfect sweet ‘n’ sour cherry pie essence. Exquisite red-black cherry juiciness informs secondary sharp-tongued green apple tartness and strawberry-papaya-kiwi-melon tropicalia topping syrupy candi-sugared malting usurped by soda-like hop spritz. Though peculiar to behold translucent garnet-hued pink-headed ale pouring from green bottle, stylistically it’s second only to New Glarus Raspberry Tart and Lindeman’s Framboise.
ST. LOUIS KRIEK LAMBIC
SNAKE RIVER KRIEK LAMBIC
STERKENS KRIEK ALE
Strong medicinal cherry tartness will get eyes squinting in no time flat. Carbolic soda flow and baked apple souring stimulate the senses as well. Musty stone-fruited backdrop receives tinny oxidation. Novices may be wiser to try cheaper Sam Adams Cherry Wheat instead. But true Belgian ale lovers will enjoy its dessert beer styling.
ARBOR GREFF KRIEK
UITZET KRIEKBIER
Raspy copper penny-hued, pinkish-headed ‘kriek’ opens dry, tart, and bitter, compromising mellow stone-fruited splendor with phenol coarseness until tannic cherry souring and vinous white grape esters show appreciation. Fizzy champagne tingle seeps into woody oaken astringency of slow sipping cherry-pied aperitif.