Boon Kriek

Brewed by Brouwerij F. Boon
Style: Lambic - Fruit
Lembeek, Belgium

Bottle. Medium high creamy and lasting pink head. Clear dark ruby body. Sweet cherries aroma. Bitter sweet cherries flavor with low carbonation and unfortunately the aftertaste is strangely short.

I’m a real sucker for a beer like this. I love the color, the texture, and the tart fruit. There’s a time and place for more complex beers, but it’s nice sometimes to have an easy treat. Nice bright red-burgundy pour with fizzy white head. Sweet/tart cherry nose with slight metallic edge. Similar taste, with a little creaminess. Would have liked it more sour, but as I said, it was a simple treat. Drank it in about 5 minutes.

Bottle (2005): Poured a ruby red with a pink color head. The aroma seems cherry a bit syrup. The taste was sweet cherry with a dry tart tingly tongue finish.

12 oz bottle from Bevmo. Pours a reddish purple color with a small pink head. The nose is rich with berries--mostly cherries, but also some raspberries. The flavor is also loaded with cherries, mostly sweet, with just a bit of tartness. The mouthfeel was medium with adequate carbonation. The finish had a Vick’s cough syrup type of flavor. Overall: Not a bad offering, but I would have preferred more sour tartness.

I had heard a decent bit about this and was expecting something more like Cantillon’s krieks with this one; wound up more like Lindemans. Pours deep blood red; I agree with others who said the look is the best part. It’s just way sweet, and the texture becomes a bit syrupy due to the amount of fruit in there. Not refreshing, almost cloying. It’s disappointing, especially since it can be quite expensive. Curious to try Boon’s non-fruit lambics though.

Bottle in Belgium somewhere ... Very hazy red purple ... sweet cherry ... again loads fo sweet cherry ... very juice.

While good, this hardly lived up to my expectations after hearing soo much about Boon and my experiences with Lindeman’s and Melbourn Bros. It is dark red, a tad hazy, with a huge light pink had that is creamy and slowly shrinks to a lasting medium head leaving beautifyul, rich, even lace. It looks beautiful, but goes downhill from there. The aroma is mostly vanilla with a hint of cherry, a light yeasty-earthy quality, rather pungent in a sweet, vanilla way and pleasant but a bit odd for qwhat I was expecting. The taset is clearly not too swet, but it also is not very tart, being mostly dry with a very light sourness and faint hints of sweetness and tartness. It also is rathe rbland, with clear but very light cherry and yeasty, mostly earthy, qualities. It’s a bit watery. While not bad, this is not remotely as good as expected and not worth the money.

12oz. bottle, cherry aroma too much for me. While a pleasant drink the cherry appeared to be more of an additive than part of the beverage.