Cantillon Kriek

Brewed by Cantillon
Style: Lambic - Fruit
Brussels, Belgium

Pours an orangey-pinkish-red with a bit of light pink lacing. Sweet and sour aroma of cherries - almost like pie filling. Intense sour taste of cherries that picks up a bit of sweetness as it goes. Lingering sourness that fades a bit quickly. Very nice taste.

Pours a pretty bright red with a small pinkish head. Taste quite tart of cherries and um, well thats mostly it. Pretty enjoyable in small sips.

Pours a hazy red color with a white head. Aroma is musty, funk, sweat, and brett. Flavor is funky, musty, tart fruit, and an acidic brett finish.

Bottle - My expectations were definitely high for this beer. Pours reddish brown with a thin head. Very strong aroma of sour cherry and vinegar. Very sour and acidic flavor. This sample was slightly medicinal and not enjoyable.

Pours a rose tinted brownish red with an ultimately dissipating pink head. Aroma is pretty intense with hay, wood, mustard, and a real nice cherry scent. The cherry makes the aroma really balanced compared to other sours I’ve had. Not sweet, but the earthy sourness is balanced with fruit. An old dusty smell seems to be there. Flavor is very tart, with wood, vinegar, mustard, grass, a little bit of cherry but there’s nothing sweet or balancing about it. Finishes with a lingering woody tartness on the throat, still glueing my tongue to the roof of my mouth. Not as dry as expected. Very drinkable beer though, average mouthfeel is pretty light and neither creamy nor overly slick. Pretty good, but a bit less interesting than Lou Pepe. It’s more lambic experience for me, which I still need.

Bottle shared by nolankowal: Pours a hazy red with an off white head. Aroma, sour, funky and acidic, cherries. Flavor, acidic, sour tartness, tart cherries, some wood. Finishes dry and tart. Good stuff.

Bright red with beautiful pink head. Wood, cherries, blood, vinegar. Extremely dry and quenching.

Bottle, split with a friend who was enjoying his first kriek. Pours a very nice deep red with quickly dissipating pink head. Aroma is sour and tart with a clean cherry fruitiness. Flavor is tart throughout and not overwhelmingly sour. Loaded with fresh cherry flavors, this one seemed to capture the cherry better than others I’ve had which sometimes get too sweet for me. Finish is clean and dry. Carbonation was moderate. My friend is in love, he liked it more than I did....and I think it’s fantastic.