Uitzet Kriekbier

Brewed by Paeleman
Style: Fruit Beer
Wetteren, Belgium

Bottle 75cl @<a href=http://www.ratebeer.com/forums/cnudde-ølsmagn target=_new> Cnudde Tasting.. Unclear orange red color with a large, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy cherry acidic - sour, blood orange. Flavor is moderate sweet, moderate to heavy acidic and light bitter with a average to long duration. Body is light to medium, texture is watery, carbonation is first 2 min lively there after flat. (290308)

The Fonefan/Brugmansia Cnudde tasting. It’s a nice dark red beer, a bit like homemade strawberry juice, and the head is nice. The aroma has notes of yeast, barnyard and fruit. The flavour has notes of yeast, light barnyard, berries and light sweetness. It’s refreshing, but the sourness is a bit sharp. Courtesy of Fonefan/Brugmansia.

Muddy red with larrge short lasting fizzy head. Sour aroma with cherry and wood notes. Sour flavor with sour cherry notes, wood and grapefruit. Nice and refreshing.

Muddy dark red/orange beer with a disappearing white head. Horseblanket and a hint of cherry and almond in the aroma. Acid and tart flavour with just a little cherry, the way it should be.

75 cL bottle@fonefan/Brugmansia’s Cnudde tasting. Pours hazy orange with a fully disappearing head. Fruity and dry woody with distinct biting alcohol feel. Flavour is light fruity with a dry flavour. Light woody finish with a lingering fruit note.

75 cl bottle. Cloudy, glowing orange colour with a fierce, light orange head that eventually reduced to a small rim. Nice lactic cherry aroma. Good lactic flavours, hints of cheese, ending with notes of almond. Dry woody finish. Good mouthfeel. Excellent!

Draught. Deep red coloured. Big natural cherry aroma with quite some acidity. Fresh acidic flavour with loads of real cherries. Rather creamy mouthfeel. Some buttery notes in the finish. Medium bodied. Very pleasant and thirst quenching.

No date is notched on the Best Before label, but the latest it goes is 2000, so I’ve got to imagine this to be at most a 2000, with the possibility (and probability) that it is actually more like a 97-99. Anyways, 750mL bottle consumed by myself on 8/17/2005.
Smells of band-aids, bretty and dry, with a light medicinal funkiness. Cherry-raspberry jam flavor on the end. Big ruddy-raspberry flecked beige colored head that quickly fizzles down, but remains about one-finger high. Intensely tiny bubbles and a very hazy/opaque deep strawberry color. Aroma out of the glass is powerful and very interesting. Tart, funky, wooly-dusty aroma. Much similarity to a kriek lambic. Flavor is rubber, plastic, tart, tart yeast and a dry sourness on the end. Lemon-rind and medicine and black pepper. Good lord this is tart! Extremely dusty and medicinal. Very dry and seems quite attenuated, though I know this stuff is very old, so that explains that. Really well-made, though. Not watery, or overly yeasty. Probably the most incredible part of this was what happened upon adding the yeast shot to my glass. Bigger, sweeter flavors now with a wonderful, chewy yeast and cherry-pie flavor. It does quite the opposite of dulling the flavor. REALLY good at the bottom of the bottle. Alcohol becomes somewhat noticeable. Soft and fuzzy cherries, alcohol undertones, some bits of honey or maybe just cherry sweetness. With the yeast shot, this beer is second to none! Sweet, mellow, soft and juicy; just perfect really. I’d be crazy if I didn’t think this as good as most krieks (lambic or no lambic). Not quite on the level of Cantillon, perhaps not the mouthfeel and very well developed bacteria and sourness that I enjoy, but quite incredible in its own right. Thanks for the tip, David!