Oud Beersel Oude Kriek

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

Muddy red beer with a small (but lasting) pink head. It has more barnyard-hay-earth-leather in the nose than cherry, which to me is a good sign, but it isn’t very intense. Tart acidic flavour with cherries and grapefruit. I don’t recognize the description below, I think this is quite far from the winegum krieks I know.

375ml bottle, bought at ZBF, best before 26 September 2026. So this is the first batch (I believe) entirely made by Gert and Roland since they acquired the old brewery in 2006. And its great to see the place back in action again, although it will be few years before things are really back in full swing. And I think there’s an element of work-in-progress about this beer. It has all that you’d expect from a traditional kriek but didn’t seem as full on funky as I remember Oud Beersel being in the past. Many might prefer the, almost refined, sharp wine-gum fruit and gentle barnyard aroma to an unrestrained manure and cheese cocktail. But I favour the wilder, up to your ankles in cow dung, approach. There’s bags of fruit in the flavour. Tart cherries of course. But there are hints at other fruits such as gooseberries and grapes too. Finishes acidic but not raspingly so. The mouthfeel is very spritzy. Perhaps too spritzy. Some further bottle age might sort that out, but I’m ashamed to say I couldn’t wait. A classy and controlled kriek but I’m sure there’s more to come.

Pours red with a nice pinkish head of full duration. The aroma has sour cherries and some slight barnyard qualities. Flavor has a sweet and sour cherry at the forefront with an acidic background.

Bottle at ZBF. Very medium sour kriek one of the better kriek i ever tasted.

Bottle from Ledgers; Best before 3/12/2023; Guess this must age well! Nose with start cerry and medium tartness, a little barnyard; Medium oink head over a strawberry jam colored body; Flavor with sharp acidity tapering into cherries then into a mild tart finish. Very good lambic!

a pretty old bottle. faintly hazy reddish pink. aroma of apple peel, tennis shoes, orange peel. tasted of tomato juice with some tart citric and vinegar notes. delicious

Aroma of sour cherry, and perhaps tannin. Rich hazy, ruby color. White head that does not persist strongly, but laces a bit. Starts tart, followed by sour cherry. The mouthfeel is substantial. The finish is puckeringly astringent. The carbonation is "fine", as expected from live ale. Amazing stuff. Overall, the components seem well balanced.

Bottle: Poured a deep pink color lambic with a nice foamy head with great retention and lacing. Aroma of sour cherry, oak and tart is well balance. Taste is a well balance mix between some sour cherry, oak and tart with some well balance level of acidity and sweetness. This was a very refreshing beer after a long cross-country ski outing. Definitely one of the most well balance fruit lambic I’ve tried.