Selins Grove The Phoenix Kriek

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

14oz goblet at the Selin’s Grove brewpub. The nose is an incredible sweet sugar pie.. of the most extraoridinary kind. Color is dark ruby, no debris in my glass. Taste is a long lasting tart (at the perfect level and sweetness) robust cherry, sugar, sour flavor... no suggestions of alcohol. Leaves its flavor on your lips. Medium bodied. Epic.

From tjthresh’s growler. Aroma is tart cherries, lots and lots of tart cherries as well as some roast, chocolate, and a touch of alcohol. Reddish color with a khaki head. Taste is lots and lots of tart cherries, both sweet and sour, with a nice base beer that gives it a bit of roast and chocolate. A very well done fruit beer.

pours a reddish purple with a white head. aroma is fresh dark cherries sugars. taste is uber realistic ripe dark cherry pie filling. fantastic. thanks josh and paul.

On Tap at Selinsgrove Brewpub. I’ve been waiting a couple years to try this - and I was happy to finally get to try it a few days before graduation. Whenever, theres a highly rated beer that Ive been anticipating for a while I get a little nervous over whether or not it will live up to my self-imposed hype. The Kriek definitely did. It pours a dark red body and seems to have a somewhat syrup consistency - no head. The aroma is tart and maybe some sour cherry. The taste is sweet cherry followed by a rush of sourness which is great. At 8% abv, this beer does an incredibly good job of maintaining drinkability. A pretty unique beer as well - couldn’t compare it to anything Ive tried so far - one of the best beers too. :::::SECOND TRY:::::: Went back to the brewpub one last time before I took all my stuff home from school. Got two 14oz goblets of the Kriek and was not let down. The aroma is amazing - fresh, tart cherry pie and sugar. There is absolutely no alcohol in the taste. Great beer.

Big thanks to The_Epeeist for getting me a fresh hand bottle. Hazy ruby/rust color with a small head. Tart cherry aroma with just a hint of malt and vanilla. Tangy, tangy and tart. Reminds me of Belgian Red, maybe with a bit more pie cherries. Seems to get sweeter as it warms up, and the alcohol shows trough a bit. As good as Belgian Red, but not as different as I might have been hoping.

Sampled from a growler, courtesy of rudolf: Dark ruby brown color beneath a thin white head. Aroma is full of cherries, pits and all with just a faint hint of wood. Excellent tart cherry flavor, though not really sour. Cherries definitely dominate here, but they are nicely balanced with sweetness and tartness working well together. A little bit medicinal, but a very nice beer. Thanks for sharing rudy!

Selin’s Grove Kriek pours to a hazy, golden pink color with a tight white head and a soft carbonation. The nose on this beer is fantastic. Aromas of sour cherry and almond(cherry stone) marry with some funky, musty, yeasty aromas. The palate is lean with an underpinning of pale malt flavors married with tart wheat malt flavor. The finish is the show stopper. This beer start with some sweet cherry flavor, then ends with a refreshing sour cherry edge that lingers. WOW.

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.