Brussels Kriek

Brewed by Brouwerij Van Steenberge
Style: Fruit Beer
Ertvelde, Belgium

A beer the same red as a Danish mailbox with no head. The aroma is nice; a sweet cherry aroma. The flavor is way too sweet - with a powerful artificial cherry note, while the body is thin. Not a recommendable beer - the cherry sirup makes it too artificial.

(Bottle 25 cl) It’s quite an ususal creation af fruitbeers, that Pierre Celisi has prodced in the "Brussels"-series. Wheatbeer and fruits. And in this case, quite a lot of fruits. If the label is to be trusted, there is a stunning 30% cherries and cherryjuice in this. This makes for a very red beer with certain impurities and a limited, slightly rose head. Pronounced -but apparently authentic- flavor of cherries and good balance between a slight sweetness and a ditto sourness. 080105

25 cL bottle. Pours clear, golden and deep red with a pink head. Dry woody and sulphorish cherry aroma. Sweet cherry to almond flavoured. Holds mild sulphorish flavour, medium dry. Ends dry and cherry flavoured.

Bottled. Clear red. Sweet cherry lemonade with a dash of artificial juice. Fanta is more complex. There is beer in here?

Bottle 25cl. @ home.
Clear medium red color with a average, frothy - fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, pink red head. Aroma is moderate to heavy sweet cherry. Flavor is moderate to light light heavy sweet and light light acidic with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20090314]

Bottled. Dark rubyish amber colour, with small reddish head. Aroma is acidic cherry with rubbery hints. Flavour is sourness mainly, not much cherry at all. Semi-dry palate.

Draught. Clear red coloured with a pink head. Very sweet aroma of almonds, apples and cherries. Candylike flavour of cherries and apples with notes of butterscotsch. LIght watery.

Bright red color. Very nice cherry aroma. Poor body, thin, too much bitter.