North By Northwest Kriek

Brewed by North By Northwest Restaurant and Brewery
Style: Sour Ale
Austin, Texas USA

Bottle, shared by miketd, thanks Mike! Pours a slightly hazy reddish amber body with a fairly sizable head. Nice sour nose, like a Kriek vinegrette almost, some sour cherries, some pitty notes, nice subtle oakiness. The flavor was just as good as the nose, sour and tart but not bracingly so, just enough oak to let you know this is a real barrel aged beer, lots of pit and cherry skins. Nice maltiness backing up all the fruit and sourness. Mouthfeel was bright and tart with pinpoint fizzy carbonation, lingering sour and oak notes. A very nice beer, this is up there with most any Sour Ales I’ve had.

Bottle at Craig’s bit tasting, Edinburgh, 21-03-09 many thanks Craig. Also a big thanks to Miketd for passing on this little gem, cheers mate. There I was sat in the living room carefully prising off the wax from the neck of this bottle and then I get the bottle opener and gently eased off the top. Within a second I was smelling, tasting, and wearing this beer, it absolutely exploded out of the bottle and in another couple of seconds a large lake was forming out of the still pumping out bottle all across Craig and Stella’s carpet whilst I was panicking like the dopey one out of Dad’s Army not really achieving much. Two thirds of this well travelled beer lay gently seeping into the floor and we poured our now our three glasses. The colour was a murky puddle brown, aroma was bitter cherries and some oak. Flavour really tart, great cherry sourness really woke the tastebuds up after the previous beer. A very decent beer that had turned Craig back into a sour appreciator so much so they he gave up mopping up the carpet with paper towels and could be witnessed licking the shagpile, actually he didn’t go quite that far but of all the sours for this too happen to it was typical that it should happen to the one that Craig really liked. A8 A3 F8 P4 OV15 3.8

The smell is cherries, funk, oak, tart, and decent. The look is clear, bright red color, and has a whispy white head. The taste is fruity, ok, tart, cherries, funk, and slight wood. Sweet in taste and has a dry finish.

1/3 of the Bottle at Home with Fin (the other 2/3 exploded all over the Carpet) ... Big thanks for the 1/3 we drunk to Fin ... Not so big thanks to the 2/3 over the Carpet :-) ... Deep muddy brown ... sour woody but definit cherry nose(black ceherry according to label) ... Top sour of the Evening for me out of some very highly placed ones ... tart tangy ... balsamic vinegar ... deep cherry ... lovely bite in back of throat ...

On tap at the brewpub. "Barton Kriek". Ruby in color with a decent sized light pink head. Aroma is of sweet and tart cherries with a hint of toast. Taste is of sweet with a medium tartness and some very light cinnamon toast and brown sugar notes.

Poured a hazy brown color with a red tint and small light pink head. Tart and sweet cherry aroma with some metallic and leather notes. The flavor is mildly tart and fruity. Cherries. the body is light with a clean finish.

I’m assuming the so-called "Barton Kriek" that they have right now is this one... Had two snifters at the brewpub. A pretty plum red color with little head to speak of. Aroma is slightly funky from the brett, with cherry tones as well. Flavor is lots of cherry and the basic lambic sourness and acidity. Somewhat sweet, as well, and moderately carbonated. Overall a very quaffable drink - I had two. Goes well with chocolate, also. I don’t think NXNW aged this beer for very long, so it could maybe use another year or so, but it was still great.

(sample from irishboy)red body with a white head.slight cherries in the aroma and flavor.mostly funk.