Selins Grove The Phoenix Kriek

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

Ruby coloured with barely any head. Nice aroma filled with sour cherries. The flavour is really awesome, filled with sour notes that get overcome quickly by the cherries and some sweetness. I’m really pretty impressed with this, glad Eben gave me a hand bottle to try.

Hand bottle thanks to fordest for sharing. Wow, lots of tart cherries that balanced out with some sweet malts. Very good, very drinkable, and very gone!

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.

Growler shared with hellbilly courtesy of psprings -- you guys rock! Pours a burnt shade of amber in color with mild carbonation and a fleeting beige head. Smells amazing. I want this in an oxygen tank. Perfect tart cherry pie filling flavor -- crust and all -- with a spicy touch of cinnamon. Warm and comforting. Easily the best Kriek I’ve had, thus far.

draft at the brewpub: The nose is full of cherries, with a sourness. the beer is a dark red color. Flavor was huge. sour tart cherries, lovely sourness. Better than any cherry pie I’ve ever tasted. What an excellent beer. I hope that more people get to try this.

Growler with a huge Thank You to Tom (tjthresh) for sharing this awesome and rare treat! Pours a slightly hazy deep ruby red with a thin whiteish/pink frothy head, moderate spots of lace. Aroma is like a sour cherry mash, cherry pie, and cherry, cherry, cherry. The cherry is fresh, rich, deep, intense, and works VERY well. Flavor is more of the same, fresh, juicy cherry pit, sour cherry mash and cherry pie. For the focus being solely on cherry, this delivers, and meets the standard set by NG Belgian Red in spades. Apparently I’m quite the fan of fruit beers. Very nice stuff, thanks again Tom!

Brewed in the USA...... On tap at the pub !! Pours a burgundy brown color with a small sticky off white head. Aroma of tart cherries, malts, wood and baking spices. Taste like i just ate some fresh cherries from an orchard.... Other flavors consist of cinnamon, malts, spices and a hint of pepper. Mouthfeel was intense, well balanced, sticky, tart with some mild carbonation. If you have some time in your schedule, stop in the brewpub and try this fruit beer.

(handbottle, thanks for sharing Stine!) Pours red with a white head. A very nice aroma of cherry of course, but along with that there is some earthiness, a light smell of barnyard, with some oak too. The taste is very good with a strong taste of sweet cherry to begin with, a slight pause, and then you’re bombarded with an even stronger oak and cherry skin tartness that comprises the finish and lingers for quite some time. This is an awesome beer, and I think tastes just a little better than the Belgian Red because of that great tart finish.