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. I don’t like cherries very much, but I have to appreciate this brew. Has a burgundy colour to it, sweet aroma, has a bold taste, that isn’t overwhelming, just good. Has almost a wine taste to it, but without the dry element to it, The cherry flavour is lovely, I would imagine it as the ideal flavour for a cherry derived brew.

C-Bus 7 Growler shared by nolankowal via kramer: Pours a mahogany color with almost no head. Aroma, cherries, woody, tart, kinda woody. Flavor, a great tart cherry taste hits you right up front, some underlying sweetness. Very tart, with just a hint of acidity. Very nice stuff.

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.

Rating #500! This wasnt really rating 500 but I have no idea what it really was, but I think this one will work. Poured a reddish color with some light brownish hints and a white head. Aroma was of cherries and a little sourness and actually a malt profile to back it up. Flavor had some tartness to it. Very solid beer.

Hand bottle from Miver. Pours a dark red color with nice bubbly head and sticky lacing. It is a nice looking brew. Aroma of tart cherry pie. Like those dried tart cherries from the health food market. That is almost exactly what it smells like except with some alcohol. And I like it. Man this is good! I love the tart/sweet mixture here. The tart natural cherry flavor is dominant, but then there is an almost pie like sweetness that appears too, until it goes back to the original tart flavor. A little noticeable alcohol. Lingering tartness. This is some awesome stuff! I want more now!

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.

Growler. Pours deep crimson red; mahogany to one level of light and firey violet to another. Aroma of fresh cherries and lots of vanilla sugar; more sweet than tart, with hints of strawberry, brown sugar glazed orange, cinnamon whipped cream and sweetened tea. Vibrant. Subtle. Flavor is so generous and forthright; not a lighthearted, sweet, feathery take on cherry but more a venture into its possibilities and toward its boundaries. Cinnamon and nutmeg are the immediate suggestions, riding a swell of mulled, firm, hearty tart cherry flavor and doughy, salty pastry crust. So much muscle and wine-like depth. Some green qualities of stems and spices lend a bittering earthiness on the outer rim. Palate is gently carbonated, medium to full in body; punchy tartness and sangria-like tanginess to the extent of pomegranate arils wetting and then quickly drying the sides of the mouth. Dry cinnamon, a wisp of tarragon and fruit flesh in the warming, mulling final smack. What a gorgeously stylish take on this concept. Thanks Chris!