Oud Beersel Oude Kriek

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

Pours a brownish-ruby color. Smells of cherries and the typical lambic funk. Smells very tart and makes your mouth pucker prior to tasting. Taste is very sweet, acidic, and fruity.

(Bottle, Akkurat, Stockholm, 17 Nov 2007) Deep red colour with frothy, pink head. Fruity, tart nose with distinct notes of cherries, horse blanket and stable. Fruity, tart taste with strained cherry notes. Lovely balance between fruit and acidity. Great beer. (And I do believe it was brewed by the recently resurrected Oude Beersel brewery)

Pours a light ruby color with slight pink head. Aroma is of yeasty funk, charred oak, horse blanket and cherries. Taste is the same but more astringent. Everything melds well with this beer, excellent!

12.7 ounce bottle purchased at Knighty Spirits in Orlando, FL for aprox. $4.50 Very good

12.7 oz bottle, BB 2024. Clear garnet with a sustaining pink white haze. Sour, funky, candied lemon peel fades into tart cherries. Taste about the same with lemon zest sourdough then cherries and pits; leaves your mouth watering. Body feels like a cider until the wonderfully soft but tongue-tickling carb kicks in. Well executed simplicity.

$6 12oz? bottle from Holiday Wine Cellar. Best before Jan 14, 2026. (Don’t drink on Jan 15th, 2026!) Left in the freezer too long, and the wire cage snapped, and cork came off. Started to ooze out of the bottle, then the liquid froze on the top forming a natural cap. Removed the ice cap, and poured into my glass. About a third of the liquid came out, the rest was frozen. Big frothy small/medium bubble head, that dies to small wisps on the surface. Nice deep cloudy red color. Nice sour cherry pie aroma. Some musty basement. Very nice to smell. The cherry seems to overpower the subtly funky sour aromas. Great aroma. Taste has a nice tart cherry bite, but low cherry sweetness. A little citrus zing to the finish. Very flavor charged. Easy to drink slowly. All that flavor wants a mild cheese accompanyment, but also great on it’s own.

Pours luminous and red, so glassy as to seem filtered, with a rose-tinted white head. Brilliantly pure lambic aroma of pressed cherry juice, horseblanket and wet leather, pungent and pulsing warmly with blue cheese. It presents itself somewhat coldly when tasted; distant, mild, and lilting. Prominent tones are flower petals, aired out cherry pits, and minerals; tainted with an especially odd chlorine flourish within a disposition that’s altogether too clean. Swiftly dry with apple cider, warm fruit, and some emasculated funk. Lemon juice and softly medicinal suggestions before the finish; the yeast presence is strange. Light bodied, relaxed and unimposing in the mouth, so much so that it seems almost trite. Bland cherry sweetness at the end. Sadly quieted and simply too cautious, lacking the wild nuances and bold character that makes lambic so exciting and alive.

October 2004 bottle

Tart aging fruits, definately showing some early development. Dulling nose with a hint of bitterness. Mid palate shows a yeasty Champagne-like character that carries through to the finish. Hard to assess right now given the primary fruit is fading but structurally very sound.