Boon Oude Kriek

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

Bottle from Crown #19, Indy. Poured clear reddish color with an average frothy reddish head that was mostly lasting with good lacing. Moderate complex sour cherry aroma. Medium body with a sticky texture and soft carbonation. Medium sour cherry flavor with a medium sour finish of moderate duration. Sour refreshing brew.

2002 bottle shared by Indra. As usual a beautiful red pour. I was very interested to see how this was aging. Aroma was very spritz-y from the strong carbonation with a good amount of aged cobwebs coming through, which is great to see, and of course cherry (which is actually turning a bit syrupy from the age). Its a weird counterbalance, the strong carbonation with the aged cobwebs and fruit juice cherry that’s only now starting to turn. Taste however not aging as well as I hoped. Full of the fruit juice cherry and not so much of the lambic. Its lightly sour but none of that complex brettiness that I would look for in an aged lambic. The strong carbonation does not help, carries away a lot of the flavor and just brings out the cherry and that’s all. Its not that there are signs of age, just no further complexity coming through in the flavor. Not a bad beer, and I am happy Eric shared it but at this point I feel I would not want to age this beer long term.

From a bottle at a beer tasting at "Ludlow Wines" in Cincinnati, Ohio - This one pours a ruby-red brew with a distinct tart cheery aroma and a foamy pink head. Tastewise, it was very dry and somewhat acidic-sour, but an excellent lambic!

12.7 oz. bottle into wine glass ("best by 30/03/2026" on label). Pours a slightly murky dark reddish-pink with a big fluffy pink head that holds but doesn’t really as it recedes. Nice fruity aroma with hints of sour cherries, strawberries, and raspberries with a nice sour, acidic, and oak characters to it - not overly sweet or sour smelling, very well balanced. Nice and tart flavor, but the fruit character isn’t quite what I was hoping for - but dull and muted and not as fresh and naturally fruity as I was expecting. The cherry flavor is a bit like a sour jollyrancher. Nice tartness though with a moderately dry finish and lacking, all around, of any alcohol characteristic. Very active carbonation, a bit high for my taste, but a few swirls of the glass settled it down a bit. Overall: good, but I think I am slowly finding out that I am more into geuzes than krieks and framboises and other lambic-fruits. Still refreshing for a summer afternoon though.

2004 bottle - Deep, deep rubin red beautiful body, beautiful pink head that could be a little bigger; Quite sweet nose lots of marzipan pit , over ripe cherry meat; Very lactic and even a little malic sour body thin and biting; Biting sour finish, not to much aroma, the thin sourness is overpowering everything else. This might not the the most sour lambic I have had but because of it very thin texture it seems like it.

My first true Lambic - so bear with me. Aroma is that farmhouse bretty aroma full of good bugs and horseblanket notes. Pours red with pink head (?!?!?) and looks more like pink champagne than beer. The flavor is sour, pure sourness. In the nose are the said horseblanket notes, as well as cherries and sugar. Finishes off on a clean note. Pretty good for my first true Lambic.

Rating #25from the european beer festival 2008. Deep red look with a pink head. Lovely kriek aroma of cheery souce, white suger and earth. Nice complex tart and sour cherry notes again with a fine eartheren tough.

pours red with a pink head, aroma is of tart cherries, very tart flavor with some cherry and lactic notes, takes a bit of "getting used to" but very drinkable, my wife hated it, so I HAD to drink hers too. ’Sigh’