Lindemans Kriek Cuvée René

Brewed by Brouwerij Lindemans
Style: Lambic - Fruit
St Pieters Leeuw-Vlezenbeek, Belgium

75cl, from De Hopduvel Gent, easy to drink sour kriek, complex, hazy, small head, the best of the Lindemans-range

Bottle (750ml) shared with HogTownHarry, biegaman, rudolf & swoopjones -- courtesy of swoopjones. 2006 vintage, No. 05557. Pours a hazy ruby-red with practically no head. Aroma: Oh yeah baby! Lovely funky smell along with tart and sweet cherries, oak and sweet malt. Flavour’s oh so funky! Also tart, spicy, fruity and nicely backed by sweet malt. Average bodied. Simply fantastic! Thanks for sharing Mike!

It was good of Joebrew to share this rare beer, carried on his back from Belgium. Distinctive Lindeman’s yeast in the aroma with cherry. Flavor has more yeast, a yeasty beer like all of Lindeman’s products, as well as more cherry and fruit flavor. Just a little sugar, and much more sour than it is sweet, unlike their other fruit lambics. Sour, but not like a Cantillon or Hannsens. Very nice bright red appearance. Well carbonated. Thanks Joe.

Thanks to Joebrew. Bright red pour with a finger thick whitish head that disipates quickly. Funky aroma with a touch of chopped cherry on the nose. Funky taste with some citrus and sour cherry with a hint of sweet as well.

Bottle (750ml - green, corked). Shared by swoopjones with blankboy, biegaman and rudolf. Fantastic share, Mike - many thanks! Poured slightly cloudy ruby-red, with an average lasting pinkish-white head. Solid acidic funky/cherry aroma, hints of oak and lemon; rich and appealing, just the thing for dessert. The taste followed - I could have hoped for more complexity, but it delivered yeast, sour cherry and tons of puckering funk in spades, nicely underpinned by a thick sweet candy malt base. Sticky, acidic, thick, decently carbonated, long sour finish - what’s not to love? The concensus at the table was this is vastly underrated. 2006 Vintage, bottle #06667

Bottle. Shared with HogTownHarry, Blankboy, Rudolf & Biegaman. Pours a reddish pink color. Aroma is somewhat sour with light to medium funkiness. Some geuze-ish funkiness, barnyard, light mustiness, That about uses up all my lambic description knowledge. Enjoyable. Thanks IPFreely for telling me to buy this in Antwerp

Thanks to Joebrew for carting this one back to our shores and sharing. Dark red color with a thin head. Light sour aroma, along with wheat and a dry barnyard dustiness. Both the sourness and wheat are light in the taste. Very little cherry, not even close to their powerfully sweet cherry regular kriek.

750ml bottle bottled (21/12/06) at Pikkulintu shared bottle with Ratebierians Color:cherry red Scent:sour Taste: astringing cherry ,long aftertaste. Very nice true lambic