De Cam Oude Kriek

Brewed by Geuzestekerij De Cam
Style: Lambic - Fruit
Gooik, Belgium

Bottled. Pours a murky red. Smells of gooseberries. Sour with aromas of berries. Tart. Hint of toothpaste. Sour strawberries.

Jan ’06 bottle from the First Annual Sour Tasting, thanks to Beejay. Odd nose. Sulfur like someone lit off a pack of bottle rockets. with raspberries. Murky red purple color with no head. Fruit raspberry flavors that are dirty with that gunpowder. Tart lightly sweet flavors that weren’t that great.

33cl bottle at Moeder Lambic. Pours deep red like Welch grape juice ! Medium head, not very long retention. Nose is very fruity, moderately tart and lightly acidic. Taste is very fruity. Lovely fruity tartness. Low acidity. Tartness is perfectly balanced for my taste. Best kriek to date. Awesome beer. Will have again for sure. Re-rate the next day. I had another bottle that was not as good. It was more tart and less fruity. It had no head at all. Slight off flavour, maybe it was not top shape. Rating stays the same.

Bottle at ’t Brugs Beertje in Brugge. Slightly hazy deep red color with a nice pinkish head. Aroma of sour cherries, and vinegar. Flavor is strong sour cherry, wood, and a little funk. Very sour, even a little more so than I would consider ideal. Palate dry and biting with fairly high carbonation. Sourness lasts in your mouth for awhile.

375 ml bottle, via bu11zeye. Pours a beautiful pink red body with a wispy pink head that ran to a thin ring. A great sour note of vinegarette on the nose, nice woody and pitty notes, great sour cherry. The flavor is nicely tart and sour, bone dry, very pitty and woody, with some excellent lambic funk, slightly cheesy. Mouthfeel is bone dry with great fine lively carbonation. Long lingering vinegary finish. Not quite as sour as many Cantillons, but clearly among the best Krieks that I’ve had. I wish that this were available in the US!

Bottle at ’t Brugs Beertje. Hazy red/burgandy color with a nice off-white head. Aroma of nicely sour cherry. Medium body with smooth carbonation. Flavor is sour cooking cherry. It stays that way through the fiish. This is the test for kriek. It’s tearing my mouth up. It’s smooth and fresh. Finishes sour and bitter. Bet this helps dentist’s cash flow.

(Bottle - bottled 2005 - at Pikkulintu, Helsinki, on 2009-07-09) Red like cherry juice and hazy. Small white head. Sherry stones, sherry and sourness in aroma. Medium bodied, mouth-watering and very dry palate with quite low carbonation. Cherry, cherry stones, sourness, light bitterness, grains and berries in taste. Berries and sourness in aftertaste.

2002 bottle @ Akkurat. Pours red with bright pink head. Aroma is overwhelmingly funky sour cherries. Taste follows with huge sourness, acetic acid, and cherries. Prickly on the palate and the sourness lingers nicely in the finish. De Cam = good.