Boon Kriek

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

Corked bottle - 2004 date. Deep, dark red with distinct haze - as per style. Sour cherry notes in nose along with a toasted breadiness - complex and inviting. Medium sourness up front and dark fruity cherry backs it up. I would like more sour but better than most locally available krieks. Horseblanket notes just there - could be bigger. Head is thin, lingers on but just as a skiff. Med-lite body. Ends with lingering sour dark cherry.

On tap @ Ølbaren. Pours a clear red with a slightly pink head. Quite sweet and lots of rather artificial cherry flavors. Some sourness too, especially in the end. Medium bodied.

375ml green bottle, corked, 2004 crop. Burgundy pour, thin pinkish white head. Jammy cherry aroma. Starts with some sweetness, then follows with a little tartness and salt. Finish is a bit sour with some acidy notes. Fine carbonation, light body.

2004 375ml bottle. Lasting light pink head on a red liquid. Sweet and sour cherry aroma with a good dose of cheese. Body is thin. Flavour is lightly sweet with a light cherry pop flavour. Wildness kicks in at the finish but not overly aggressive. A fairly mild summer sipper. The cherry keeps calling you back as you try and dismiss the glass, but still a little thin.

Pours deep purple with a dull purple head. Aroma has quite a bit of tart cherries with a bit of cherry pie filling sweetness. There is also a touch of vinegar like sourness. Medium body with sharper than normal carbonation for the style. Taste starts sweet and sour with more of an earthy mustiness than I’m used to in a lambic. There is some cherry in the flavor, but not as much as the aroma implied. The sourness involved is not as sharp as the vinegar-like qualities by many, the sourness seems to have a smoothness to it. The finish has a lot of the sourness from the taste & prickliness from the carbonation. This is a nice lambic. If the price was a bit lower I could see myself enjoying often.

375. Pours a nice cloudy red with a big head, and a good amount of carbonation. Aroma and taste seem rather simple in this beer. Aroma is tart cherries and malt, taste is sweet cherries with a tart fruit finish, overall seems well balanced.

Vintage 2004. Red colour, with small pink head. Strong glace aroma. Very tart flavour, slight carbonation. Sweet palate.

Bottle @ moeder de gans, Teuven, Belgium. As a tourist on holiday in Belgium, and never drunk a Gueuze or Lambic upto now, starting with a 37.5 cl bottle of Kriek is adventure. Pours a reddish coloured beer with a small head. Aromas of cherries, and sour fruits are noticed. Flavors of sweet cherry with sourness coming ahaid. Sour finish.