Lindemans Kriek

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

Tastes and smells like slightly carbonated cough syrup with candy sugar added. Not sure this is a beer. Not nice. To be avoided unless you are in a hypoglycemic coma.

Side by side with kriek cuvee rene, brought by wetherel to sd north county holiday tasting. Pours deep purple with a bright white ring. Nose is like a cherry slurpy mixed with cherry robitussin. Taste is cloyingly sweet, way way way too sweet for what it should be.

Pours a deep burgundy red with almost some purple hues. Has a little fizzy pinkish rimming head. The aroma is a strong, sweet, and slightly medicinal cherry. A little bit of mineraly cough drop. The mineral flavor is there too. Some funk to it with a sort of bitter choke cherry flavor. A definite syrupy sweetness. Spritzy thin carbonation that finishes very clean.

Bottle at Chaucers Pub in London, ON. Decanted deep and colourful ruby red liquid, topped with a frothy pink cap. Nice nose of cherries, yeast, some raspberry, perfume. Tastes of sweet cherries, yeasty funk, kool-air, with tart cherry towards the end, with good acidity. Pretty well balanced.

Thin airy pink head, cloudy red colour. Strong aroma of cherries slightly carbonated. Sweet strong taste of cherries.

Pours a deep ruby red with a slight pink head that sticks around for awhile. Nose of sweet black cherry soda, a mild hint of yeast and funk. It tastes like good dark cherry soda, but like cherry soda nonetheless. Very, very sweet. Full bodied, just enough carb and slight acidic zip to keep it from being a sugary mess.

12 oz bottle from Willow Bend Liquors (Tampa, FL). Pours a clear bright red color with no head and little carbonation. Aroma is strongly of cherries, especially chocolate covered cherries; sweet and syrupy with a hint of brandy and spice. Flavor is ver sweet and tart with a syrupy mouthfeel. Some hint of woody and spicy notes as it warms. Generally full bodied with tart, sweet finish.

Pours ruby into a Tumbler. Pink head with excellent retention barely recedes to coat surface. Cough syrup aromas. Tastes like the aroma - strong, sweet cherry cough syrup.