Founders Cerise

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

Pours a light red color with light pink head. Aroma is slight tart cherry, toasted malt and light caramel. Taste is mild cherry, floral hops, toasted malt and caramel. Finish is a bit sharp, but nothing is over the top. Well balance. Solid brew.

12 oz bottle compliments of the Binny’s singles rack (Orland Park, IL). Pours a ruby red with bits of coppery red, medium bright white head that dies to a small layer, laces a bit, light haze. Aromas are some nice natural cherry, a bit tart, with underlying sweetness and some light carmel malts. Inviting, nothing overdone. Initial has a decent body, pushing some nice tart cherry. Carmel and toffe malts definitely step in, with a mild hop bitterness in the finish, aided and smoothed over by the tart cherry. Founders does fruit beers well, and this beer, although no NG Belgian Red, is formidible. Cheers!

Red in color with a pink head. Aroma of cherries, light pale malts, perhaps a touch of wheat. Taste of cherry, light grain, lightly acidic. Light bodied, spritzy carbonation. fairly good for the style.

12oz bottle. A cloudy pinkish pour with a quickly disapating pink head. Almost no lace. The aroma consisted of real cherries and a bit of wheat. The flavor had a moderate amount of cherries, some cereal grains, and wheat. The mouthfeel was medium-bodied and had light carbonation. Overall, I thought the cherry flavor could have been a little bigger. A decent fruit beer, but I was hoping for more.

On tap at Coles Buffalo NY. Pours a light to medium pink.. Spritzy cherry flavor & nose. Champagne/ cider like qualities. Cherry is pretty substantial. fizzzy. decent

Tasted 4/30/09. 12oz bottle. Sedimented and hazy. Ruby hue. Pencil thin white head. Fruity and nice aromas. Fruit cacophony in the nose. Medium bodied and initially good, then the overly sweet/tart cherry note rears its ugly head. Thick and too much one dimensional. Faint malt bill. Finishes tart and zesty.

Amber pour with pinkish hues. Fizzy off white head and drippy lace. Cherry and spice on the nose. Syrupy texture with notes of cherry, grains and spice. Some bugs would really take this beer to the next level.

Pinkish hue to the amber color. Aroma is amber ale with hints of sweet cherry. Quite sweet with a tart edge; the cherry is quite pronounced. Avoids being "cough-syrupy" with the balance of acidity and sweetness, but it’s really not my cup of tea.