Baladin Mama Kriek

Brewed by Le Baladin
Style: Fruit Beer
Piozzo, Italy

Bottled. Cloudy amber. Aroma of cinnamon and cherry. Dryish, lively and spicy with light, sparkling mouthfeel. Flavours are discrete but pleasant, and it isn’t the mindblowing, extrovert beer the fantastic bottle makes you believe it is, wherefore I believe it is easy to overlook the qualities of this beer.

Cloudy orange color. Yeasty aroma, a bit sour. Some residual sweetness, too much carbonation. Ends quite thin and dry. Poor fruit character.

cloudy orange colour, nice creamy head, dry cherry aroma, notes of haye and yeast, very creamy mouthfeel, low carbonation, very dry cherryish finish - unspectacular

Totally hazy orange. Orange-coloured, 1/2 cm thick head, relatively stable. Very spicy nose, ginger, orange zest, undefined spices (they tell me gentian, in fact all the Wayan spices). No kriek, or cherries. "Farmyard" flavours, ginger, spicy, rosemary. No kriek. End of the bottle is solid suspension of yeast and other stuff. What IS this?? Mouthfeel a bit burning form the spices, no fruitacids. Again rosemary, even lavender in the aftertaste. This is like an Italian (?) interpretation of "Farmyard ale". Whatever this is, it ain't kriek - but the brewer maintains, it's gonna change character after six months lagering. Oh well.

Bottle from A tutta Birra, Milan. Rather thin, some citrus, mostly sweet cherries. Cloudy pink, lots of carbonation.

Bottle. GBBF2003 (kriek tasting session). Hazy pink red, low head and moderate condition. Big spicy corriander and melon fruit nose, more corriander in the mouth with more fruit (this time peach). Quite dry and thin in the finish. Few obvious cherry notes except for the colour, but a good spicy wheaty beer, like Hoegaarden brewed with Weihenstephan yeast.

Small white head quickly disappears. Muddy opaque pinkish brown body. Acidic sharpish cherry and metal aroma with milky toffee notes. Acidic milky wooden vaguely cherryish yeast taste. Dry yeasty cherry aftertaste. Not very nice. (0.75l bottle at Knut Albert’s.)

(botle)Hazy orange colour with fluffy white head. Light sourish aroma with vague notes of yeast old wood and dried cherries. Fruity and a bit woody flavour of cherries and cork. Quite charming and refreshing drink. Thanx a lot Per!