Lakefront Rosie Kriek

Brewed by Lakefront Brewery
Style: Sour Ale
Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA

On tap at The Rotten Apple. This is the first sour I have enjoyed. Very red and clear. No carbonation visible or felt. Flavor is cherry and some complex fruit. A very nice beer.

On tap at Sugar maple in Milwaukee. A good beginner’s sour but not as complex as some of my favorites. Red color with a small pillow of a head. Tart cherry and vanilla aroma. Flavor is the same with a spicy finish. A little more oomph and this could be a world beater. As it is, my brother that hates sours found it tolerable.

DOLA 09. Pours an orange red with a fluffy pillowed head. Aromas are light and slightly tart. Light tart flavors of oak, raspberry, cherry, berries, strawberry seeds, and oak. I have to search for these light flavors, but what’s there is decent.

On tap at Sugar Maple. Pouted lighter-garnet with a short cap of off-white head. The aroma picked up dry cherry dust over wheaty and stemmy notes.. didn’t find much enjoyable character beneath. The flavor had tangy cherries throughout, but with a bit of a metallic feel.. some oaky and earthy notes joined and were enjoyable.. dried out at the very end, showing mild funk and vinous character. Lighter-bodied with a somewhat tacky feel at the back-end (also some residual sugars).. sourness was low-to-moderate.. OK stuff.

On draught at the Sugar Maple tavern in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Pours a clear reddish copper sour brew with a creamy white fast dissolving head that dissipates to a thin white ring and spotty lacing. Aroma of tart cherries and white bread malt, some flowery hops and a hint of yeast. Taste is light to medium bodied, tart, with flavors of cherries, white bread, Brett, and some yeast. Finish has a light metallic and very light tart cherry aftertaste.

Day of the Living Ales in Chicago. Poured pinkish color with a pink head. Lightly sour aroma with some nice cherries. It was both sweet and sour at the same time. I liked Goose Island’s sour ale they had on cask this day a little better, but this was still a fine beer.

Very wonderful nose. Tart but clean tasting. Almost too much so, it seemed quite watery almost. Would try again though.

FoBAB 2008. The brewer said this was a Kriek lambic style aged on oak and fermented with Rodenbach yeast. Poured a slightly hazy dark orange color with a tall, lasting white head. Smelled of distinct cherry, almost maraschino-ish, with subdued vinegar and oak accents. Light bodied with plenty of cherry flavor that reminded me more of cherry flavored medicine than real cherry. Some honey touched cereal grain came out at the end. There was also a hint of adhesive tape. Eh. Smelled pretty good, but the flavor left a lot to be desired.