Selins Grove The Phoenix Kriek

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

From a 12oz Handbottle. Courtesy of Stine. Transparent, brilliant ruby red colored pour with a finger of fizzy pink head. Intense cherry aroma, saturated with fleshy cherry fruit, skins included, and a slight acetic note in the background. Amazing in both the level of intensity and the quality of the fruit aroma. Hints of herbal leafiness helps to balance the sweetness of the cherries nicely. Medium bodied, lightly carbonated mouthfeel with a touch of acidity. Sweet, but not sticky, and brimming with one of the most authentic cherry flavors I’ve tasted in a beer. Gobs of fruit, with some cherry-skin tannins coming through on the backend to round out the finish. The term, "Kriek" in the name is a little mis-leading, as implies "cherrry lambic", but this is just a really, really good fruit beer with a cherry flavor rivaled only by Scharbeekse Kriek or Lou Pepe Kriek. Thanks a ton, Eben!

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!

Bottle from Zathrus13 I believe. Pours a light cherry red but boy does this thing smell fine. There are beers that you open, pour into a glass and drink. This is a brew that can be enjoyed in many a way. looks very cool but gosh, the nose was very nice as the cherry was not sweet and sickly. Very tasty as well.

Handbottle from acrdz - huge thanks!

Pours a caramelly red, modest off-white head. Kirschesaft aroma, tons of cherry, caramel, mild liquor notes. The flavor is tart cherry juice -- the good stuff that you get in Germany -- atop caramel sugary sweetness. It’s just glorious. Full, splendid mouthfeel reveals the 8% only in the intensity of flavor and body. Not lambic tart at all -- a lot more sugar -- but it makes this so drinkable, so delicious. I’m going through a bomber of it as if it were an 8 oz serving of juice for breakfast. Comparing this to NG Belgian Red is enlightening; this is what the Belgian Red should have been.

Wonderful beer!

Wow! This is a fantastic brew. Hand bottled by Kramer17801--big thanks to you! The aroma is vinuous, fruity, woody, and sugary sweet. The appearance is a gorgeous ruby red color with very little head. Full and creamy palate with perfect carbonation. Taste is wondeful--tart cherry flavors with a great oak presence. Wish I had more...

Growler shared by tjthresh. Pours a deep raspberry reddish-brown with a thin, off-white ring of bubbles clinging to the edge of the glass, encircling an interesting swirl of fine bubbles. The nose smells exactly like a fruit tart (cherry/raspberry) ; like cherry pie filling with a tart backing to overcome the pervasive sweetness. Medium-bodied and slick with a dry, tart finish. The flavor is of rich, sweet, tart cherries with a dry, sour finish. This is a damned fine fruit beer. Thanks again for sharing it with us, Tom.

Much thanks to Miver for the hand bottle. Pours out an interesting deep, dark red bordering on a reddish brown. Aroma of tart and sweet cherry. Taste is sweet cherry, some nice tartness with a good cherry flavor and some bready earthy notes going on in there too. Very solid. Much thanks again to Miver

Slow recession of a creamy, light pink and light beige head reveals delicate and sparse lacing. The body is hazy and cherry-skin colored. Along with requisite cherry, the aroma has pleasant notes of orange peels, salted melons and heapings of mushy pie crust. Cinnamon, white chocolate and slight toasted grains and caramel malts are noted as well. Alcohol is unnoticed. The flavor is all cherry pie, with light to medium tartness and plenty of accompanying sweetness. All cherry notes are real and fresh, never medicinal. Acidity is mild, lemony. The mouthfeel is medium-full, sticky and lightly to moderately carbonated. Finishes sticky sweet, lengthy and full. A very rewarding taste.