Selins Grove The Phoenix Kriek

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

Huge thanks to dsnowden for sharing this with me. What an awesome guy! Pours a deep reddish maroon, with a medium light tan head, with red hues. Really cool looking head color. Smells of rich cherry candy and cherry pie, with big hints of cinnamon and caramel. What a smell, makes the mouth water. The flavor is great as well. Its got a slight acidity to it, but nothing overpowering. Big cherry as well in the flavor. Its a very sweet beer. Cherry is definitely the keyword here, but not a fake candy cherry taste like a redbach or something, its a deeper cherry taste. Very creamy with touches of some cinnamon spice as well. Really well balanced, excellent fruit beer. It deserves the high accolades its getting. Thanks again Dan!!

Wow, what an unbelievable beer. Huge, huge thanks to my Secret Santa for this beauty. A deep amber color shot through with a lovely strain of day-glo red, this one has a modest amount of lacing and a very thick, smooth mouthfeel. But the cherry element is just unbelievable, so smooth, so tart, so bloody present. Full-bodied and complex like the best Belgians, this beer is a triumph.

Growler from kramer17801. The pour is deep red with some brownish head. What a nose. Fresh cherries with some woody earthy character. Smells like a cherry pie with fresh picked cherries. I can get the crust even. The flavor shifts from sweet to tart and back as it travels across the palate. Medium body with light carbonation. Medium dry finish. This beer is everything I expected and even a little more.

TITW-II. First batch. Dark amber body with an off-white cover. The aroma is very heavy cherry sucrets, fairly medicinal. The flavor is better, cherry syrup, caramel, moderate sweetness. Medium/full body with a sticky texture. 6/4/7/3/13 3.3

2nd batch. Much better aroma. Was like sticking your nose in a can of sour, pie cherries. 8/4/8/3/15 3.8

3rd batch. Juicy sour pie cherry nose, fairly straightforward. Moderately sweet, moderately tart, lots of pie cherries, some raw sugar sweetness, light almond. Finishes tart with a pitty, pithy bitterness. 8/4/7/3/14 = 3.6

Chocolate cherry aorm, cloudy red-brown body. Some tart cherry aroma. Big sweet cherry flavor (real cherry flavor rather than extract), some mellow chocolate malt. Light cherry tartness in back. Not really a kriek but a tasty fruit beer. Rich mouthfeel.

Growler shared by tjthresh, via kramer17801. Pour is cloudy ruby brown with a half inch tan head. Aroma of fresh cherries, sweet, with a depth of tartness and sourness as well. Matt said Cherry mash, Tom said Cherry pie, both are certainly good descriptors. Real deep and complex, wonderful nose. Taste is black cherry sweetness with a nice crisp tartness to the finish. Nice earthiness, nice mouth coating lingering finish. Really a beautiful beer - huge thanks to Tom for sharing, honored to have had an opportunity to try this one.

From growler@KSBF after fest tasting. Thanks again go out to kramer17801! Poured a small light tan head with fair retention, minimal lace. Lightly hazy amber/red hue. Fruity, cherry nose, light lumber, tart and spicey, a tad musty. Body is medium, full on the palate, lighly coating with a spicey bite, tangy. Medium sweet malt flavors, sweet and sour cherries, raspberry, light oak and some doughy yeast flavors. Nicely spicey. Finish is almost dry, surprisingly tart and fruity. Well done! Thanks Jason!

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.