Selins Grove The Phoenix Kriek

Brewed by Selins Grove Brewing Co.
Style: Fruit Beer
Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania USA

Huge thanks to dsnowden for sharing this with me. What an awesome guy! Pours a deep reddish maroon, with a medium light tan head, with red hues. Really cool looking head color. Smells of rich cherry candy and cherry pie, with big hints of cinnamon and caramel. What a smell, makes the mouth water. The flavor is great as well. Its got a slight acidity to it, but nothing overpowering. Big cherry as well in the flavor. Its a very sweet beer. Cherry is definitely the keyword here, but not a fake candy cherry taste like a redbach or something, its a deeper cherry taste. Very creamy with touches of some cinnamon spice as well. Really well balanced, excellent fruit beer. It deserves the high accolades its getting. Thanks again Dan!!

Growler from hopdog. Deep cloudy amber color with no head. Aroma of black cherries. The taste was of sweet and sour cherries with lite vanilla notes. As I continued to drink this a weird bitter pit flavor began to creep in, as well as lite tobacco notes. Dry finish.

Hand bottled thanks to Dickinsonbeer. Cloudy reddish brown color with a small pink head. Mild cherry pie aroma with some lactic sourness in the background. I was wondering where all the cherries were until I took my first sip. Wow! Big time cherry flavor that was lightly tart, and some dark chocolate and spices as well that married perfectly with the cherries. Delicious!

every bit as good as new glarus....basically a cherry pie in a glass...a little bit of tartness in the aftertaste keeps it from being too sweet..thanks to dickinsonbeer for the hand bottle.

Courtesy of Styles

Hand bottle: Big musty cherry aroma with a slight medicinal quality to it. The cherry aroma is very similar to cherry pie filling. It pours a cloudy orangish-red with a small pinkish-white head. The flavor has lots of sweet cherry up front that fades to a light tartness in the finish with a touch of acidity. Very surprised by the 8%. A poor man’s NG Belgian Red.

growler, thanks holdenn! pours beautiful deep ruby with almost pinkish-cream colored head. nose has nice cherries, lactose, and nutmeg. flaovr is subtle sourness, cherries, dark fruits, cherry pit, balanced tart and sweet. slightly acidic. really reminded me of belgian red, but perhaps better! alcohol is very well hidden. a great fruit beer.

#600. Growler courtesy of kramer17801, thanks again Jason! Dirty oxidized red pour with a light tan head. Aroma of fresh cherry, musty/bready/sweet malts and some light desert spice with a very light sour element. Flavors of osur cherry, light sweet malt, pie crust, light nutmeg and cinnamon and a bit of dry woodiness. Medium body, sweet/sour/juicy/spicy all kind of weaving in and out with a dry/sour/fruity sweet finish. This beer tastes like Christmas!

Growler with big thanks to kramer17801. Came in an iron hill growler filled to the rings of the screw cap. No hiss when I twist off but it pours a tall beige head with a pinkish tint on top of a clear and bright ruby brown body. Nose is fruity, the expected cherries and raspberries with a tropical notes and candied sugar. Smooth palate that’s not too acidic if I drink it before it warms. Sweet cherries, bright red fruit, and candied sugars burst onto my tongue. Immediately the cherries turn tart and slightly lactic leaving me with dark dried fruits and earthy/nutty/woody notes. Those last notes can be summed up as the flavors of cherry pits. That earthiness is unexpected but really enjoyable. And if that abv is correct, the alcohol is really well hidden for a fruit beer, no detections of it. Excellent beer and a big thanks to Jason for sending it this way!