Selins Grove The Phoenix Kriek

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

Name: Phoenix Kriek
Date: 11/01/2006
Mode: Hand Bottled
Source: Tasting

muddy brown, thin beige head, musty cherry aroma with a hint of woody cherry pit, big body, rich cherry flavor, starts sweet and then the tartness kicks in, nice bready yeastyness

Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 8/10; Palate: 7/10; Overall: 16/20
Rating: 3.9/5.0
Drinkability: 9/10
Score: **4

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!

This is a surprisingly good Kriekbier. It has loads of sour cherry flavor and aroma without being too tart. Very Yummy!

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

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.

Thanks goes to thecheeseman! Sour cherry aroma, metallic aromas with cherry skins. Pours cloudy red with a thin white head. Sour cherry flavor, cranberry sauce, a great tartness up front with a sweet finish. very very nice!

50 cL bottle hand bottled, thanks to sk8viking. Pours golden red with a lacing white head. Great slight sulphorish and fruity aroma. Lovely slight dark flavour with a mild fruityness on top. Extremely wellbalanced.

Growler. Thanks SuzyGreenberg! Pours murky, ruddy dark amber. Loose bubbles around the lip. Some grainy particulates, and a little bit of clingy carb stuck at the bottom. Big ripe sour cherry nose; not shockingly sharp by any means, but noteworthily cherryesque and very much from a sour cherry base--not sweet snacking cherries. Sticky medium body, nearly still if not totally still. Huge ripping tart cherry flavor on the mid-palate. Definitely not overly sweet; on the sweetness scale it falls somewhere between fruit juice and a dry APA. Long sticky fruit sugar finish. Everything about this beer is permeated with cherry flavor, it’s a beautifully executed extraction of that fruit essence. Good stuff.