Oud Beersel Oude Kriek

Brewed by Brouwerij Oud Beersel
Style: Lambic - Fruit
Beersel, Belgium

375mL bottle, BBE4/14/2026. Vigorous pour gets me a a deep red colored beer with big fluffy pink foam that slowly fades to a thin layer. Aroma is cherry pits, oak and funk, just how I like it. Flavor is a little out of whack, real big on the cherry pie filling, then fades into a strange starchy flavor that’s a little metallic. Good but not great.

(3/2/08) Bottle sample at Zythos Bier Festival 2008 in Sint Niklaas. 2007 bottle. Deep red with a pinkish head. Aroma of sour cherries. Dry sour flavor with cherries and some oak. A lively carbonation that creates a very nice mouthfeel.

from 75 cl bottle, saterday 22 march @ Waregems beerfest. Wonderful red beer, nice pinkish head. Sweet and sour aroma. Flavour dried cherries, good sourness, malts. Finish bit wood, sour cherries. Top.

Bottle. Pours red/pink with a pink diminishing head. Barnyard bret aroma. Flavor contains cranberries with good carb, and has a nice sour and bitter finish. Very refreshing.

Ølbaren 2008.03.11 - Thanks for sharing. Deep red with a pink head. The aroma has notes of barnyard and hints of cherries. The flavour is sour, but refreshing, and it has notes of barnyard and hints of cherries. I would have liked the cherries to be more dominant and the barnyard to be less pronounced.

Let me start off by saying that I am not the biggest fan of most lambics (faro’s seem to be an exception). Smells of lambic yeast with some cherries far in the back. Pours with a large, pink head covering a muddy, bright red body. Good retention. Extremly sour and tart, but lambics aren’t my thing. Mouthpuckering describes the mouthfeel. My girlfriend liked it, I did not.

Bottle, bought @ Wohlenbergs, Sønderborg.
[My 400th Belgian rating]
Pours a wonderful deep, dark red. A rather large bubbly and fizzy pink head. Aroma has lots of barnyard, cherries, tartness and brett. Some oranges, light touch of vanilla and a bit of vinegar as well. Medium carbonation - relatively full mouthfeel. Flavour is very, very tart, lots of berries. A distant touch of dark roasted caramel, nuts and tobacco. Long lingering tart finish with lots of nice berries. This is a seriously nice lambic!

37.5cl bottle: Pours a wonderful red, like cherry juice. Just a hint of brown to it. Nice frothy baby pink head. Aroma is a well balanced combination of sweet and sour. A spoonful of sugar mixed with dried cherries, a dash of vinegar, some citrus, a range of other souring agents, sweaty horse-blanket, a slight hint of mint, and a far away touch of caraway seed. Upfront flavors of mixed dried red fruits and a dash of malt. The malt falls off quickly but the dried cherries and other dried red berries/fruits ride a sour wave that seems to cover all the different forms of acid sourness. That brings you into old wood with a faint touch of tobacco. Long finish with wood, tart sour cherries, and a touch of tea leaves.