Selins Grove The Phoenix Kriek

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

Growler shared at Columbus tasting 7 by Nolankowal! - Thanks John! - Pours ruby red with a short pinkish white head. Aromas of tart cherries. Very much smelled like a fresh baking cherry pie. Flavor is tart cherry, some bread, and yeast, Just a touch of acidity there to let you know it is a kriek. Wow this was good.. I was quite impressed with this one..

Rating #500! This wasnt really rating 500 but I have no idea what it really was, but I think this one will work. Poured a reddish color with some light brownish hints and a white head. Aroma was of cherries and a little sourness and actually a malt profile to back it up. Flavor had some tartness to it. Very solid beer.

Growler shared at the C-Bus tasting...thanks to Nolankowal. A fantastic fruit beer that is borderline kreik. Pours a bronwnish red color with next to no head. Flavors of sour cherries that gives a very tart flavor. A very nice brew that is really refreshing and deserves its high praises as one of the better fruit beers.

C-Bus 7 Growler shared by nolankowal via kramer: Pours a mahogany color with almost no head. Aroma, cherries, woody, tart, kinda woody. Flavor, a great tart cherry taste hits you right up front, some underlying sweetness. Very tart, with just a hint of acidity. Very nice stuff.

Hand bottle courtesy of Kramer17801. Sour cherries along w/ an oakey earthiness round out this brew. Agree w/ Naven, a poor stepchild to NG Belgian Red.

Growler from Kramer17801 - a big thanks for the chance to try this bad ass brew. Dark red color with a light pink head. Aroma is all fresh cherry pie - very sweet smelling. Taste is pretty amazing - very sweet, a bit tart, and probably the best tasting cherry anything (dessert, etc) I’ve ever had. Coats the tongue and feels so nice. Wow. This is just a really cool beer.

Hand-bottle from Kramer. I don’t know if something happened in the growler to bottle transfer or what, but my experience with this beer seems to be a lot different than others.
That is not to say it isn’t fantastic, of course. Though the aroma is very subtle and hard to pick up, and there is almost no head on the deep garnet pour, the flavor is absolutely delicious. Chocolate covered sour cherries, all the way. Really, I don’t even know what else to say. Juicy and utterly rich. Now I just need to try it the way it’s supposed to taste ;)

Growler via kramer17801. This beer is fantastic. The beer pours to a dark murky ruby/garnet body that has a nice glowing vibrancy. The head is peach colored. The flavor is cherry pits, cherry pie filling, tart cranberries, sweet sugars, acidic fruit, nutty characteristics like New Glarus Enigma has. Think Ferrero Rocher hazelnut candies. The palate is tart, really sweet, and full bodied. The aroma is tart cherry pie filling, strawberries, strawberry leaves, and hazelnut chocolate. Very, very complex. Like a brown ale, kriek, and some sort of chocolate beer (porter or stout) all rolled into one.