Selins Grove The Phoenix Kriek

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

Handbottle from acrdz - huge thanks!

Pours a caramelly red, modest off-white head. Kirschesaft aroma, tons of cherry, caramel, mild liquor notes. The flavor is tart cherry juice -- the good stuff that you get in Germany -- atop caramel sugary sweetness. It’s just glorious. Full, splendid mouthfeel reveals the 8% only in the intensity of flavor and body. Not lambic tart at all -- a lot more sugar -- but it makes this so drinkable, so delicious. I’m going through a bomber of it as if it were an 8 oz serving of juice for breakfast. Comparing this to NG Belgian Red is enlightening; this is what the Belgian Red should have been.

Wonderful beer!

From growler, one hour old. Pours a clear dark ruby colored body under a tight creamy thin covering of head, off-white with a pink tinge. Aroma is tart and slightly acidic with a great sour cherry undercurrent. A good amount of malt backing it all up. Flavor is wonderfully tart and acidic with great natural sour cherry. Finishes very dry and tart. Mouthfeel is medium bodied with perfect soft active carbonation that cuts through the acidity and really livens things up. Overall, this is Selin’s Grove’s most interesting and best regular rotaion beer. Right up there with New Glarus Belgian Red in my book.

TITW Part Deux - 12oz handbottle couresty of kramer17801. Thanks, Jason! Cherry red color, slightly brown; medium carbonation. Slight aroma: hints of bing cherry, some oak. Huge, tart cherry mouthfeel: hints of toasty vanilla and barrel aging; very similar to the NG Belgian Red; nice complexity. Long, chewy cherry finish. 7.4.9.4.17=4.1

Resampled from growler, courtesy of mj. Better carbonated, dense tart cherries, mouthwatering acidity. Great stuff.

Growler shared at the C-Bus tasting...thanks to Nolankowal. A fantastic fruit beer that is borderline kreik. Pours a bronwnish red color with next to no head. Flavors of sour cherries that gives a very tart flavor. A very nice brew that is really refreshing and deserves its high praises as one of the better fruit beers.

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 with big thanks to kramer17801. Came in an iron hill growler filled to the rings of the screw cap. No hiss when I twist off but it pours a tall beige head with a pinkish tint on top of a clear and bright ruby brown body. Nose is fruity, the expected cherries and raspberries with a tropical notes and candied sugar. Smooth palate that’s not too acidic if I drink it before it warms. Sweet cherries, bright red fruit, and candied sugars burst onto my tongue. Immediately the cherries turn tart and slightly lactic leaving me with dark dried fruits and earthy/nutty/woody notes. Those last notes can be summed up as the flavors of cherry pits. That earthiness is unexpected but really enjoyable. And if that abv is correct, the alcohol is really well hidden for a fruit beer, no detections of it. Excellent beer and a big thanks to Jason for sending it this way!

Big thanks to zathrus13 for this gem. Pours deep red with a red head. Big aroma of fruit. Taste was very carbonated with cherry flavors throughout. Very refreshing for an 8% beer.

Stud tasting 1.0 held at general_gaos. Thanks for putting up with us colin! Whomever joey got a handbottle of this from is the man. Ruby red pour, thin white head. Aroma is up front cherry, tobacco, cheese, and hairspray. Huge black cherry aroma, some strawberry, slight vinager, tannins, sharp cheddar cheese, and tobacco. Finishes dry, somewhat tart but with low acidity. I have never had anything burst in my mouth with so much flavor. Need MORE!