Liefmans Gluhkriek

Brewed by Liefmans (Moortgat)
Style: Fruit Beer
Oudenaarde, Belgium

Bottled @ European Beerfistival. Poured warm from a pot. Very sweet with aromas of caramel and cherries. Also with some almonds and marzipan. Hint of glue. Sticky mouthfeel. Tastes a lot like Cherry sauce.

bottle..no carbonation whatsoever..ruddy, reddish, prune body with no head..tart cherry aroma with some sour funk and vinegar..flavor is of sweet cherry as well, but its lack of carbonation makes it impossible to enjoy...completely flat, useless

Bottle shared by badnewsbeers. Murky, plummy red-brown body with no head. Complex, funky aroma with vinegar, fermented berries, wet socks, wood, and a touch of soy. Spicy cherry syrup body, sweet and fairly heavy, the heft becoming distracting due to the lack of carbonation. Not as sour as I expected from the aroma, but plenty interesting. I’ll have to sample a fresher bottle, as this one seemed a bit stale.

Bottle, from Cornelius in Edinburgh. Rusty red pour, just a little off-white head. Spicy, heavy fruit aroma: a rhubarb crumble with a handful of sweet cherries, generous pinch of cinnamon, a little vanilla candy. Dessert-level sweet, but a nice firm acidity makes the sweetness actually very pleasant. Spicy pie cherry and woody rhubarb. For a traditional kriek...okay, well, it just isn’t. But as an interesting dessert beer, very nice.

Bottled 25cl. 6 ABV. It pours a slightly ruby beer with a small head. The nose is of almonds, cherries, walnuts, nutmeg and wood. Sweet taste. Very pleasant. Some spices which include nutmeg and cinnamon. The finish reminds me of gingerbread.

25 cl bottle. Pours a clear dark ruby body with a small fizzy off-white head that disappeared quickly. The nose is heavy mulling spices of clove, cinnamon, and some cherry. The spices are very prominent in the flavor as well, lots of clove and cinnamon, sweet fruits of cherry and plum, a little toffee maltiness, and a slight sour twang. Mouthfeel is medium bodied with a clingy stickiness and nice pinpoint fizzy carbonation. This really reminds me of a mulled Christmas spiced wine A pretty decent fruit beer actually. Surpassed my expectations.

Appearance: Dark, brownish red. Basically no head. Aroma: Cold: Fruit and a bit of cinnamon. Hot: Strong cloves/cinnamon aroma. Taste: Cold: Sweet, but acidic too. Herbs/fruit. Hot: Like mulled wine, cinnamon. Info: 250ml bottle, 6/12-2006, 120/500

Thanks hey_kevin for the sample of this ’97 vintage bottle. Notes from a January ’07 tasting. Hazy red caramel with a couple bubbles for a head. Aroma of some clove, light mint, sour acidic cherries, toffee, misc spices, and some tobacco. Flavor was reminiscent ofspiced apple cider on top of the other aromas, a bit of paper/cardboard, and a dry finish. No carbonation with a light to medium body. Very nice.