General Lafayette Biere Des Cerises

Brewed by General Lafayette Inn and Brewery
Style: Fruit Beer
Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania USA

Slightly hazy amber with a distinct funky cherry aroma and taste that only bordered at medicinal. Tart and pretty well attenuated with a very palatable level of sour and funk.

On draft at Capones. Pours a dark gray, pinkish red with a medium sized pink head. Aroma of dark tart cherries. Taste of sour cherries. Tart.

Draught at TJ’s: Aroma of cherries, light funk, barnyard, light malts, and sweaty balls. Poured brown/deep amber/orange/magenta in color with a small, off-white/magenta, head that disappeared quickly. Cloudy. Not sparkling. Full of large and small particles throughout. Flavor is lightly sweet and slightly tart. Tastes of cherries, light funk, and some yeast. Medium body. Thin, dry texture. Soft to average carbonation. Cherry and funk finish.

Draught at the brewery. Pinkish amber body with a thin white head. Aroma is at once sweet cherry but not cloyingly so, acidic, wheaty, and slightly tart. Flavor is representative of aroma but noticeably balanced, neither cloyingly sweet nor overly tart. Personally I would’ve liked a little more tart but for a first time kriek I would easily say it surpasses lindmanns, although who can say how it would age.

On tap at the brewpub. Pinkish ruby in color with a little white head. Cherry, acidic, tart aroma. Light cherry yeasty flavor. Medium bodied. Light sour finish. Nice beer.

On tap at Capone’s. Pours a pinkish rub y color with no head. Aroma of cherry, and vinegar. Flavor of cherry, tartness, and yeast. Decent beer. Not quite a sour. .

On draft at the Inn. Poured ruby color with a skim of slightly pink head. Slightly low carbonation level. Flavor of tart, acidic cherries. Decent offering.

(BCTC, growler) Minimal white head atop cloudy orange-red body. Aroma is medium sweet, cherry, some sour, dusky/yeast. Taste is medium sweet, cherry, some sour, light seltzer. Light-medium body, light acidity, low carbonation.