Oud Beersel Oude Kriek

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

350 ml bottle. Clear red, pink head. Well carbonated. Soured cherry aroma. Flavor is pleasantly sour, with mild sweetness, and slight cherry. Slight funky cheese. Not too dry. I did not pick up any one thing that stands out, but I think it could use a touch more of something (?)

12.7oz bottle. Served @ 47° in my duvel tulip. Pours red with a large pink head. There is a small amount of sediment that found it’s way to the bottom of the glass. The aroma is earthy with some tart fruitiness. The flavor is tart, light fruitiness, some light barnyard notes. Fairly sour. I wish the fruit came through a little more. Finish is increadibly dry and sour.

Deep pink body with an off-white head, this is sours cherries from start to finish... along with an alcohol presence. If it didn’t remind me of the climbable tree in my yard as a kid, I probably wouldn’t have rated it so high. There’s way too much sediment and the flavor is too unremitantly sour, drowning out the flavor of the cherries. Very dry finish. This bottle may have been off. I’ll try this again another time.

Thick Orange/Red (Pink Tones) Coloring with Off White Head. Cherry Aroma..Sophisticated Brew...Sour Cherry Notes with Dry, Crisp Ending. Wonderful Lambic..Worth Cellaring Some to Keep Close at Hand.

Absolutely amazing experience. Slightly hazy red/pinkish in color with a large off-white head with tiny/tight bubbles. Aroma is acidic,musty,tart,cherries,oak.mouthfeel is very prickly with high levels of carbonation. Astringent/mouth puckering finish.

i hadnt had a lambic for a while - maybe it’s 18 months or so - so it was pretty exciting getting that pungent leathery, barny smell up the nostrils again. of course in comparison to all the beers ive been drinking lately it’s full-on, but for a lambic i don’t think it’s over the top funky like i remember Hanssens. there’s homeless people and nappies in there but in small amounts. mostly it smells like tomato soup that’s been left out in the sun for a few days. not much cherry in the aroma. taste isnt overwhelming in any one direction - not inyerface sour and woody and not super fruity either - balanced. quite malty. the sourness is pretty restrained but it’s certainly enough to leave you in little doubt that you’re not drinking bellevue. as the sourness fades, finally the marzipanny cherry taste is sitting there on its own at the end waiting for you. a very cleverly structured beer, if a bit short on sheer explosiveness.

Dark pink with a towering head. Sour aroma. Good hits of sour wheat in the taste, but I found it severly lacking in the fruit department. If I hadn’t seen it, I’d have called it a gueuze. Still tasty, just not what I was hoping for.

WOW a world classic the brewers art is very easy to see in this almost perfect lambic. Very well balanced almost too well balanced, tart cherry elixir of the gods.