North By Northwest Kriek

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

Draught at GABF 2008. Hazy red brown coloured with a medium sized beige head. Light acidic aroma of cherries, wood and caramel with notes of glue. Light acidic flavour of cherries, wood, oak, vanilla and glue. Tart finish. Very well balanced.

Date: 06/23/2007
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting, RBSG 2007

cloudy dark red, fine pink head, streaks of lace, sweet cherry aroma with a tart edge, creamy body, rich cherry flavor, mostly tart with just a bit of sweetness for balance, long tart cherry finish,

Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 7/10; Overall: 15/20
Rating: 3.7/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: **4

(RBSG07, 375ml (hand?)bottle) Cloudy red body with minimal pink/white head. Aroma is medium sweet, cherry, funk, some sourness. Taste is medium sweet, funk, sour cherry. Light-medium body, lightly sticky.

(Bottle) Pours a cloudy ruby body with a spare white head. Aroma of subtle cherry sourness. Flavor of sour cherries, funk, and earthiness.

Bottle at the RBSG grand tasting on 6/23/07: Pours a hazy dark ruby pink with a thin-lacing off-white head. Aroma of sweet fruity cherries and some complex oak and tartness, very enticing. Body starts with a full dissolved carbonation and some lightly sweet fruity cherries and lots of tartness before a drier, lightly oaky complex finish. Very well balanced, authentic and enjoyable.

Thanks to notalush for sharing this. Deep, deep red and purple colour with a thick sticky pink-red head. Aroma is loaded with sweet cherry aroma. A little bit of tartness, but not at all similar to the flemish red. There is a soft cinnamon aroma as well. A little bit acetic, but this character is a lot less restrained than in the flemish red as well. Soft spiciness mingling nicely with the cherry skins and pits. Soft yogurty lactic tartness... nice warm nutmeg spiciness. Quite rich, sweet and fruity. This is damn tasty stuff.

Muddy and dark purple/brown colored body. Nose is fantastic - prickly, seedy, pitty cherries and fresh, tart raspberries with a light cream and a light lactic funk. Creamy, oily, full and frothy texture. Slick and sweet at one time and then tart, dry and funky at others. An excellent dessert beer, comparable to New Glarus Belgian Red but less sweet and more dry, which I prefer.

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 ...