Oud Beersel Oude Kriek

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

375ml Bottle: Aroma of very tart fruit, acetic acid, slight funk, and wood. Poured purple/magenta/ruby in color with a tiny white head that lasted around the edges. Cloudy. Very sparkling. Tart flavor. Tastes of tart fruit, cherries, average to funk and slight wood. Light to medium body. Tingly texture. Lively carbonation. Tart, cherry, funk, and acid finish is slightly sticky.

[Bottle] Pours a rosy gold with a smallish white head. Aroma is super funky and not much cherry. Flavor is dry, gravelly, mouthwatering, and the fruit is basically gone.

Bottled, BB 10/6/2024. Poured rich garnet with a large, creamy cap of pinkish-beige head. The aroma picked up tart cherries, funky barn-like notes, and a bit of lemon zest over a touch of earthy and pale malt sweetness. The flavor picked up tart and dry cherries with wheaty and leathery backing.. bitter and quite tart. Medium-bodied and increasingly tart as it warmed up.. funky with cherries right at the end.. fairly well-balanced.

Pinkish-red pour with rusty tinges, moderate white-pink head with a litte retention, not much lacing. Plenty of cherries on the nose, grass clippings, tea leaves, and some wild yeast funk. Flavour is dominated by wild yeast sourness that gets up in your nose, cherries are also present, the finish is long and acetic. Effervescent mouthfeel, good solid balanced carbo. A really good wild ale.

Shared bottle. Thin lasting white head that is tinted pink from the dark red beer. Thin salty aroma. Flavour is soft, salty, dry with a sweet light fruit taste. Classy.

Bottle from Sun Devil. Corks violently and fills the immediate sphere with funky feet smell. Pours a deep blood ruby with a fat bright pink fluffy head that dissipates steadily. One of the prettiest beers I’ve ever seen. Nose is a tart vinegar-alcohol that doesn’t allude to fruit. Flavor is a better strawberry lambic than Upland" wonderfully sweet strawberry-cherry blend that is light on both sour and funk. Finishes sweetly but nicely balanced.

From Beer Mania, Brussels, Belgium. Bottled, 100409. Red with white head. Aroma of dryness and cherries. Flavor is balanced sour with fruit and a hint of wood.

The oaky sour cherry aroma of this beer is absolutely wonderful, this is easily the best kriek I have had even without actually tasting it. The taste is tart and nicely refreshing. I’d love to have this again and again.