Mort Subite Oude Kriek

Brewed by Mort Subite (Alken-Maes / Scottish & Newcastle)
Style: Lambic - Fruit
Kobbegem, Belgium

375 ml bottle, via jbrus maybe? Pours a slightly cloudy reddish amber body with a nice fluffy pink tinged head that had decent retention. The nose is quite sour and funky with oak, cherry pits, cherry skins, a little brett, and some slight cork. The flavor is very sharply sour and biting with a great bright sour cherry fruitiness. Finishes with a bit more subtle funkiness and wood. Nice lingering red wine vinegar like finish. Mouthfeel is decent, sharp and crisp with nice pinpoint fizzy carbonation. Overall a really nicely done traditional Kriek.

Bottle 37,5 cl. Pours a cloudy pinkish red with a frotty white head and an aroma of fresh cherries, acid and sugar. The taste is sharp acidic but with lots of cherries in it. The finish is sour and lasts pretty long. A very nice brew

375 ml bottle. Pours a bright pinkish red with a foamy somewhat lasting head and some lace- aroms is woody, earth, funk touch of chlorine/bromine pool water and plastic pool toy- brett, with tropical fruit mixed with tons of fresh cherries, and almond like cherry pit. Tons of fresh fruit- cherry adn almost a tart cassis like character- sharp in acidity and a very sour finsih with lots of funk and good brett character cutting through a big fruit backbone. Well rounded and a great prickly acidic finish. Awesome Kriek.

Bottle @ Carlsens kvater. very nice but the cherry is a bit too mutch, Dark ruby red colour, big pinkish head.

37.5 cl bottle sampled at the Captain Lawrence tasting at Big Z yesterday. I’m not sure if this is something Scott brought with him, or if this is something from Mark’s private stash, but thank you to whoever brought this. Also, thank you to Dickinsonbeer for giving me a heads up this was being poured! Pours a mostly clear red with a thin, somewhat fizzy, pink head. Very pleasant aroma that is filled with lots of sour cherry and just a bit of earthiness and funk. The flavor is equally lovely with again lots of sour cherry along with some earthiness, wood and yeast. Very bright and lively on the palate. I really enjoyed my sample - it left me wanting more! Thank you, gentlemen!

2006 dated Neck Label; Best By May 2012; Sampled January 2009
The beer pours into my 25cl tulip glass with a pink tinged, pale colored head. The beer is a deep red color that shows a brilliantly clear, bright red stained, gold color when held up to the light. The aroma has a nice, musty, moldy, wild mushroom and farmhouse cheese funkiness to it up front that is noticeable even as I pour this. A deeper inspection of the nose yields more of the same as well as a tart back note of cherries and aspirin. Brettanomyces definitely have left there signature in the aroma; there are also musky notes of dried sweat soaked blankets and some phenolic, almost plastic like notes here too.

Nicely sour with a big lactic acid presence. The finish has hints of tart cherry skin notes to it, a bit of tannic bite and a hint of cherry-flavored aspirin. In the middle the Brettanomyces kicks in at a level that is subtle compared to the nose, but still contributes a musty, earthy note that impinges on the oral-nasal cavity more than on the flavor. The cherry notes become a bit more noticeable as my palate gets used to the sourness, but it is never nearly as noticeable as its effect on the color of this beer. There is a nice backdrop though of fruity, cherry skin flavors that serve as a framework for most of the other flavors here. The fruitiness can at times provide a suggestion of sweetness that belies the dry, tart finish that grips this beer. The beer has a bit of tannic heft to it that keeps it from being thin, but the dry tart character keeps this pretty darn quaffable.

My second pour of this beer sees the cherry flavors becoming a bit more noticeable, in fact the cherry is coming into its own here. This is a nice example of a Kriek, it could use a bit more funkiness and some more fat cherry notes and then a bit more tartness, but then it would be a different beer. I am definitely enjoying this.

Bottle shared by oldstylecubsfan. Thank you very much for bringing this back from Belgium, Todd! I didn’t write too many notes on this one ’cause I was enjoying sticking my nose in it so much. A wonderful kriek. When done right (sour as hell), this may be my favorite style of beer.

Woot, thanks to OldStyleCubFan for sharing. Pours a bright red with a tantalizing pink head. The nose is very tart and vinous, cherry and cherry skin tartness, cherry pit/almond undertones, earthy, yeast characters bringing up the rear. Flavor is tart, cherry skins and pits are forefront, nice background yeast and barnyard characters. Tart and acidic on the mouth.