Selins Grove The Phoenix Kriek

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

Growler. Thanks SuzyGreenberg! Pours murky, ruddy dark amber. Loose bubbles around the lip. Some grainy particulates, and a little bit of clingy carb stuck at the bottom. Big ripe sour cherry nose; not shockingly sharp by any means, but noteworthily cherryesque and very much from a sour cherry base--not sweet snacking cherries. Sticky medium body, nearly still if not totally still. Huge ripping tart cherry flavor on the mid-palate. Definitely not overly sweet; on the sweetness scale it falls somewhere between fruit juice and a dry APA. Long sticky fruit sugar finish. Everything about this beer is permeated with cherry flavor, it’s a beautifully executed extraction of that fruit essence. Good stuff.

sample from a growler at RB BCTC gathering 2009. Deep reddish pour. Liquid jolly rancher. Tart cherry bomb. Really good. Need more

Tap at the brewpub. Aroma of grape and cherry, some cough syrup, nuts, earth. Flavor is predominantly tart cherries, not as medicinal as I was expecting from the aroma. Grew on me as I drank it, but didn’t live up to the hype for me.

Thanks again to Adrian, who can’t stop buying growlers of this stuff - and I don’t blame him! Reddish brown pour. Nice aroma of malt and floral hops. Flavor is sour, grainy, and a little bitter, but never hard - cherry, hops, orange, and biscuit. Tart, lively, and very good.

On tap at the brewpub. Pours a deep red/brown with a thick light pink head. Aroma is bready/yeasty with tart cherry. Flavor of tart cherry initially with cinnamon and pie crust followed by a sweet cherry finish. Nice and tart. Quite a good fruit beer (although personally I prefer the Selin’s Grove Saison de Peche). 8/4/9/4/16 (4.1/5)

Pours a murky dark reddish pink colour and a creamy tan/pink head. Has an aroma of cherries, and fruit juice. Flavour is similar to the aroma. Very tart cherry flavoring.  Goes down easy like juice. Very tart taste with soft carbonation. Ooohh, I loved this stuff!!

Warming Cherry tart power, hints of spice... not a lambic, as it sounds, but is clearly stated at the brewery... similar to the Liefmans Kriek

Had this beer in an ’08 batch both in Selinsgrove and in a growler. I was shocked to see this above Three Floyds Behemoth and Bell’s Kzoo Stout. Not too impressed. Derives from sour mash cherries. Good for a fruit beer I suppose, but I thought it had a bit of a cough syrup taste. Very little carbonation, overly sweet, somewhat bitter. if this is the best of fruit beers, I guess that I’m a firm believer that fruit doesn’t belong in beer.