Kasteel Kriek

Brewed by Brouwerij Van Honsebrouck
Style: Fruit Beer
Ingelmunster, Belgium

Pours a dark brown with reddish edges Pinkish off white head. Big tart cherry aroma. Flavor is sweet then tart cherry with a lightly bitter finish.

330 ml Bottle white the name kasteel rouge a dark red beer smell cherry and very sweet taste cherry and a lot of sweetness and little bite of alcohol

Really nice aroma and color, let down by the head formation. The initial flavor is amazing; real cherries, not in any way artificial. Earthy and bitter. The second wave is very, very sweet, almost cloying. Definitely a small-quantity (by which I mean taster sized) sort of beer.

33cl bottle, different from the one pictured (brown, stumpier). Pours a dark, deep ruby red with a small pink head that disappears very quickly. Minimal lacing. Aroma of red cherries, toasted malt and even a hint of cinnamon. Medium-bodied "dark" ale with active carbonation - thick, full mouth feel. A formidable example of Belgian fruit beers, this one has a deep, sweet-and-sour dark cherry flavour - but also tastes like real beer! Nothing artificial about the fruit flavour at all. Impressively malty bitterness counters the initial fruity sweetness very quickly, and leads to a sweet-and-sour finish. Lingering, slightly sour after taste. Very refreshing, complex, gratifying fruit beer that is so much better than the previous "extreme kriek" Belgian ales I had before. Positive proof that is can be done! Sessionable, too!

Bottle. Poured a deep red with with a reddish brown head that laces nicely. Aroma was full of cherries both sweet and tart. The flavor carries the same qualities as the cherries are well balanced between sweetness and tartness.

At an albert heijn XL in Zaandam, bottle 330ml my bottle says "kasteel rouge" dark red, pink fizzy no lasting head, fizzy taste with lots of cherryfruits and soure citrus, almost no bitter and grain, a bit like a hi-alcohol fruitbeer, not my kind. With bad acid sweetners.

average frothy reddish brown head. good lacing. fully diminishing. sparkling flat thin dark red body. aroma: lots of cherry. if and ff: moderate bitter; very light bitter in the end; average duration. palate: light body, watery texture, fizzy carbonation and light alcoholic finish.sabor maravilhoso de cereja, dulçor no ponto, me senti tomando um belo espumante; disfarça muito bem o álcool; amargor quase nulo no final do gole Nota: 90 Skol

(draught 0,25l) Pink-brown creamy head. Dark red color. Strong cherry aroma. Very sweet, maybe too much. Cherry flavor. Sticky texture. Sweet and light alcohol finish.