New Belgium Lips of Faith (Dark Kriek)

(bottle - 22 oz) Dark brown color with a fluffy tan head. Aroma is dark cherries and caramel malts with a hint of sourness, earthy notes, and wood. Flavor begins with a nice and smooth cherry tartness with a sweet followup that quickly turns into a sour flavor. Sourness lingers for a bit but doesn’t overpower the natural cherry flavor. Big fan.

Bomber, poured into a flute glass. Dark ruby/brown with thin beige head. Aroma of dark cherries, wood, and caramel malt. Taste is tart dark cherry juice and sweet caramel malt. A nice balance of sweet and light sour. Light/medium mouthfeel, very crisp and carbonation, and quenching. Very good beer, I dig this one!

In the bomber bottle from Downtown Johnny Brown’s in San Diego. Black with an ivory thick head. Incredible cherries and chocolate, but not all robust: has a delicate belgian medicinal undertone that makes this wildly unique. Stupid delicious.

This beer is spectacular. Like blend of imperial porter and kriek. Rich, chocolate covered cherries aroma. The flavor is lightly sweet with a lightly tart finish. Rich and elegant.

Pours a dark brown-red with a hint of white head. Aromas of sour red cherries, vanilla, and green apple. Flavours of semi-sweet cherries, a healthy dose of buttery oak, and chocolate caramel. There is a delightful balance of sweet and sour flavours here that complement each other admirably. If I had not been told that this was a blend I would have never guessed - interesting and very enjoyable.

This is pretty bad. Light acidic aroma. Flavor of stomach acid, oak, and cherry. I don’t mind acid, but there is something off about this. The oak is ok, but the cherry is off as well, very medicinal. I wonder if something went wrong with the bottle. will rerate when i get the chance.

Bottle. Poured a cherry juice-red color with a pinkish head. Smelled of cereal grains and cherry. Light to medium bodied with a hint of acidity at the end. I tasted distinct cherry, some oak, a hint of red wine, and dark malts. So so, but unfortunately reminded me a bit of Sam Adams Cherry Wheat in that the cherry was a bit too medicine-like.

Bottle at Chriso pre-GBBF tasting 09. Amber, lasting beige head. Touch of sour fruit on aorma, sweetish fruit, bit like a Flemish sour. Bit too sweet on the brown sugar.