Liefmans Fruitesse Kriek

Formerly brewed at Liefmans (Moortgat)
Style: Fruit Beer
Oudenaarde, Belgium

Aroma:chemical cherry nose.. Appearance:Clear dark red color,medium pink head... Flavor:good cherry flavor,nothing more...

Bottled. Beer is clear medium scarlet with a large, pink, frothy, mostly diminishing but lasting, frothy head. Stubby tendrils of lacing.<P>Tart cherry with bready malts invokes cherry pie. Malty with light notes of toasted bread; Light herbal hop; Light yeasty basement; Moderate/heavy note of sour cherry syrup.<P>The flavor is heavily sweet, lightly acidic with a longish, moderately acidic, moderately sweet finish.<P>The body is light, the texture is syrupy and the carbonation is lively.<P>Tottering toward cherry soda.

Bottle 0,25ltr: A lot of sweetness in the sweetened dark red Kriek. Not sour as mend to be.

Bottled at Rustico, thanks to Pamela for sharing Pours a gorgeous hazy ruby color. Head is big, pinkish with good retention and leaves a nice lacing. Aroma is fruity with cherries and more cherries. Bubble gum, cherry soda and cherry marmalade too ;) A fantasy drink? Flavor is ultra-sweet, artificially flavored in my book. Notes of cherry soda, fruit caramels and a hint of sourness. I would say this is cloying. It’s even sweeter than Chapeau Kriek. Light bodied, fizzy and sharp carbonation. Finish is sweet/tart and rather long. Syrupy texture. Aftertaste of a fruit candy. A girls beer if it’s a beer...

Bottle, 3.5%. Sweet marcipan aroma. Nice, dark, deep red colour. OK dark pink head. Quite sweet flavour, but it could be worse. Cherry, softdrink-like flavour. Has a little sourness to balance.

Bottle. Dark red beer with a light head. The aroma is deeply sweet cherries and the flavour is very sweet cherries. Overall a nice beer.

This is the favorite of my dochter. Dark red colour with small pink head. Watery body with a bubblegum-like taste. Remends me of cherry syrup. (Bottle 25cl) To sweet for me.

Excellent beer, I do not know whay is so underrated, but the taste is very sweet, almost like eating the cherries.