Lindemans Kriek Cuvée René

Poured a deep red. Nose was beautiful. Lactic sourness, funk, sour cherries, musty cellar, red wine vinegar, merlot notes, earthiness. Flavor is mouth wateringly sour, earthy, dirty, musky, funky all mixed with some sweet and sour cherries. Gem!

75 cl bottle Aroma is wooden with hints of citrus. Flavor/palate has got a lot of sour in it, a sour as in vinegar and lime, with a little bitterness, resembling Rodenbach. Very very nice beer.

Great deep red color, with a weak flavor and aroma that is lacking in any noticable cherry characteristics. Bottle from Ryan Blanksi’s Sourfest- Hollywood, Florida.

Dark reddish/brown pour. Cherries, tart grapes, wet wood, minerals, and vinegar nose. Flavor is sour cherries, vinegar, oak, lemon and dry on the finish. Good.

75 cl bottle. Blood-like black-red. The darkest red I’ve ever seen. Aroma of rich stewed cherries, dry, iron, dusty funk. Flavor of iron (blood?), cherries, dusty horse blanket, very dry and funky, little lacticity. Rich, rather highly carbonated, palate. Extremely dry, minerally; much drier than expected. Very funky, actually, with not much sweetness at all. A bit too much metal for me.

An unclear orange beer with a small head. The aroma is fruit, sour fruit, that actually puckers your nose. The taste is a mouth puckering fruity sourness with a balance of sweet.

Bottle, 75cl corked, at Cardinal. It’s a hazy, cherry-reddish beer topped by a small, pinkish white head. Horseblanket, cherry and lemon in the aroma, quite mellow. Cherry-sour flavor with hints of almonds. Lemony and tart. Dry, palate-cleansing and astringent, finishing with sour cherries. A quite lovely, easy-drinkable beer that isn’t too sour at all. Far from the commersial swill though. 090728

On tap at Stone Sourfest 09. Lipstick red pour. Aroma is cherry, raspberry, very tart. Flavor is dusty, tart, vinegar, and some cobwebs with cherries.