Crombe Oud Kriekenbier

Brewed by Brouwerij Strubbe
Style: Sour Ale
Ichtegem, Belgium

Bottle: Poured a red color with a white color carbonated head. The aroma is a sour old like cherry. Taste is very sour and overwhelming to my palate, very tangy and burns.

Delicious rocky, totally uniform foamy white head covers the 80% orange, 20% pink coloured body. A remarkable colour. Also remarkable is the aroma that explodes with yeastiness amongst which stand out delicious mushroom notes. Woody and sharp. Orangey, slightly plasticy. I love pomegranates and they are everywhere in this nose. Complex fruity and yeasty profile all along, funky. Unfortunately, it is not as spectacular in mouth, but still accompanied by a good level of acidity and a pretty dry palate. The cherries come with the complete fruit flavour, pit and flesh, and its sugars are fully attenuated. This is as authentic as it gets nowadays. Perfumey and floral closing, plain complex and delicious, unique offering.

Bottled@GBBF2007. Rubyish amber colour, mediumsized beige creamy head. Really sour cherry along with acidic notes in aroma. Big sour flavour with end in some cherries in finish. Extremely sour and really nice.

Orange red-brown body with a huge pink head; Very nice fresh nose, lots of fruit both kriek and strawberry, it has lots of brett with its off-flavors very present; Soft carbonation in thin body, a little sweet and slightly itter; It finishes a little acidy but quite tart with lots of very horsey aromas.

Bottle at Chris_O bottlefest 2007. My last beer of this great, great session. Started at 12.00 midday and finished at 02:00 the next morning. Orange/amber colour with thin off white head. Odd strawberry/ raspberry cherry beer. There is some decent sourness. 2.7/5.0 Re-rate Bottle at GBBF 2007. Red/brown crystal clear, sour funky aroma that is terrific, lasting off pink head. Bit of plastic on aroma. Decent cherries, very sour. Glue aroma. Wow, sour, but just a party time going on in your mouth and tummy. Made me happy. Great lasting finish of sticky cherries.

ChrisFestCrisp, refreshing with an acidic yet sweet bite. Reasonably attractive.

Reddish colour with a small white head. Malty, fruity aroma with a light vanilla note. Malty, fruity and quite sweet flavor with a light yeasty finish.

A Mes rate: Yet another give away from the Land of the Low. Very odd stuff. Wooden (oaky) with some unexpected lambic character. Sugary sweet nose with only a little cherry and some wheat. Strange almost lambic notes in the mouth too. Then all of a sudden very sweet with a note of cinnamon sneaking in round the back. Slight vinegar too. Red brown colour with a thin film that lasted all the way down. Lovely Flemish sour note at the finish. Quite liked it, in a perverse kinda way.