Founders Cerise

Brewed by Founders Brewing Company
Style: Fruit Beer
Grand Rapids, Michigan USA

Not a fan of this one. Has a light red, pinkish color. Smell is not what I was expecting. Smells more of bitter rotten fruit. No cherry at all. Taste is almost like NyQuil. Too bad I didn’t like this one, I’m a fan of Founders. At least everything else I’ve had from them is excellent.

Aroma is quite vegetal, not good. Taste is more girly, sweet. Although the cherries aren’t all that prevalent. Kind of odd.

Smells of cherries ruby red grapefruit and candy apple coating, along wih grapes and wine.. Taste is cherry, champagne and candy apple. pleasantly suprised

bottle. medium-tall thin creamy pinkish off-white head. body is clear rusty amber, aroma is sweet cherry pie filling, ciabatta dusted with flour, and a bit of dry sourness. flavor is sweet dried cherry and dry/sour malt, gets more tart and dryish like a chardonnay. a little bready/doughy. pretty sticky. decent fruit beer.

Bottled. Poured slightly hazy medium pink that also managed to tint the stubborn off-white head. The aroma picked up sour cherries and dusty, wheaty notes over a cereal base.. warmth brought out a bit of sweet cherry.. interesting. The flavor opened with tart, fresh cherry juice.. some cherry meat met bready and cereal notes on the weak core.. tart cherries carried through the finish, leaving brightness, but little depth or substance. Light-medium bodied with tartness as a primary character, but there were a lot of sweets there too.. very clean feel to it. Not bad.

Better than I expected, but with an off malt/bitterness combination that just pushed me away. I don’t typically go for fruit beers anyways, but thought I’d give it a shot. Too much of an ale in this beer. I was sort of underwhelmed by the aroma too. Not terrible by any means, just not much there.

12oz bottle. Pours a clear pinkish color with a small light pink head. Aroma of cherries and malt. Taste of cherries, malt and some grain/cereal. Flavor expands to more spices as it warms up and become quite enjoyable. It has a semi sweet start but ends with a bit of a tart finish.

Bottle thanks to mattmc1973. Pour is pink and bubbly with a medium pink tinged head. Aroma is lightly tart, notes of champagne, faint malt, and light herbal character. Flavor is true to nose with cherry malt dominating the flavor. Very effervescent on the palate and a very light body.