Selins Grove The Phoenix Kriek

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

KSBF 2006 RB after party. Pours a hazy golden amber brown with a small off white bubbly head. Aroma of vanilla, cherry, caramel, woody, tart. Flavor of cherry, tart, cherry pie crust. Would love to try this one again when it’s not after 9 hours of drinking at a brew fest.

Hand bottle from trade with Miver. Pours a hazy muddy reddich color with a smalll off white head. Aroma of cherries, hops and dough. Taste is like eating a cherry pie. Semi sweet and tart at the same time. Nicely mellow and well balanced. Reminds me slightly of NG Enigma in the way the flavor unfolds as it warms. Nice easily enjoyed brew.

Hand bottled by kramer17801 (Thanks!) - Now this is a REAL beer head, huge meringue like texture, falling very slowly leaving the most beautiful pattern of laces on its way, the head and the body are both redbrown (of cause not with the same density in color); European vers. American, the aroma of this beer is to me very American, lots of cherry but super sweet almost with cinnamon sprinkled on top, lots of barrel but in a very vanilla sweet kind of way, it has some fresh cherry as well but the cinnamon, vanilla sweetness is taking over and makes it a bit to fat and vulgar; Huge carbonation in quite funny body, it has a soft almost velvety texture but quite a bit of balanced acid hides it well, at first there are great amounts of lactic acids but when the beer is swallowed they seem much more like the fruit acids of an unripe cherry mixed up with the lactics, somehow it has quite some reminiscence of some Flemish Oude Bruins; it finishes very long with lots of American (haha) aromas: vanilla and cinnamon sweetness with a big punch of allspice and a little clove on a dry almost ORVAL like textured body, with a late oaky harshness. Great beer, like nothing I have ever tasted before. To my taste it needs a little work to be perfect, but it is definitely on its way.

[2402-20090801] Growler. Odd vegetal olive oil aroma has some cherry. Hazy, dark red body with a quick foamy white head. Cherry pie filling flavour has a sweet long aftertaste. Medium body. Lovely cherry, wow.
(w/ others @ BCTC; Cooperstown, NY)

hand bottle thanks kramer17801 nice nose of cherries with a tiny bit of vinegar...reddish brown color... big mouthfeel with a little palate coating...sweet cherry flavor....like cherry pie fillin....yummy a bit too sweet to drink too much...but damn good

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.

Thanks to Juart for sharing the growler. Pours a deep amber red color with a frothy off-white head. The aroma smells of cherry wine. Some woody vanilla, raspberries, and a heap of dark sweetness. It tastes like really over-ripe cherries. Maybe even some cherry pie filling. A deep chocolate and sour choke cherry in there as well. A nice creamy mouthfeel. Very tasty.

Draft at Selin’s. Opaque ruby with a small pink head. Generally sweet nose mainly of lightly tart cherry, also some spice with ginger, light cream, and brown sugar. Heavy cherry in the flavor, faintly tart, some pit and very juicy. Silky body but excellent carbonation, molds well with the minor tart notes to give the beer a sparkling feel. Very sweet, but insanely drinkable.