Lindemans Kriek

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

Poured red, with pink head. Big cherry aroma. Very sweet, cherry flavor. Slight sourness. Kind of tasty, but in that wine cooler way. The first taste is good, but when you get to the end, you never want it again.

The appearance and aroma made me think that this could be a really great brew... I was wrong. Its essentially a glorified wine cooler. Way, way too sweet and not very drinkable. I could see this as a teenage girls first experiment with alcohol..

Pale grapefruit violet with small pink head. Aroma of sweet tart cherry’s and mustiness. Tart cherry, grape. Sweet tingly pleasant palate. Good lambic.

From Skjold Burne, Aarhus 110408 Bottled Dominated by cherries. A marcipan/almond bitter shadow from the stones

Deep purple-red beer with a frothy pink head that stays forever and laces its way to the bottom. Big sour cherry aroma. Big cherry fruit tartness combine with a very pleasant mustiness and woodiness. A little yoghurty too. Fine carbonation imparts a surprisingly silky mouthfeel. However, it is very sweet, so if you aren’t up for that, then the rest of the character doesn’t matter much.

This is a huge hit with people who’ve never had craft beer before and it’s easy to see why. It’s really close to a fruity soft drink beverage or a cocktail, than a beer. But it’s soooo easy to drink and yeah, it’s nowhere near what a traditional fruit lambic (see 3F Kriek) should be but that’s okay. I gave some to a couple of friend and they flipped at how tasty it was. The beer pours out a pinkish/red body, large champagne-like bubbles with a light pink foamy head. Aroma is roses, black cherries, a touch of sourness but even that was off-set by the simple-syrup like aroma of sugar. Flavors are sweet/tart-like cherries, with a soft-drink like cloyingness to it which I didn’t enjoy. Perhaps if it were less sweet I’d enjoy it more, but even then I found it to be somewhat refreshing.

Bottle from Windy City. Hazy red in color. Somewhat sweet, slightly tart cherry aroma. Sweet cherry flavors along with a little bit of tartness. Slightly bitter finish. I could drink a lot of this stuff if it weren’t.

Bottle from local Asda. Pours a deep red with a big fluffy pink head that laces quite well. Nose is sweet sherberty cherries with initially some strong apple smell on opening, which subsides to allow a slightly sourer lambic quality to seep through. Mouth is slightly sharp attack, quickly balanced by a long smooth sweet cherry. Finishes long with lots of sweetness and a touch of sourness. Gulpable, quenching.