Verhaeghe Echte Kriekenbier

Sold as Echt Kriekenbier, Bottle BB 18-10-08: not the usual cherry wheat beer I expected but more of a light sour ale, pours pink with adequate head and lacing, Taste is mildly sour with a modest cherry flavor and a funky lacto/oak aged combo in the finish, very easy drinking beer with very mild hopping

Sampled at the Second Anual Stone Sour Festival on 7/20/2008. One of a few bottles I tried. A pretty decent sour ale.

shared with stumac and melanie ... bought from LS .... is quite a sour little bugger, the tartness is spot on too ... lots of cherries and oak, sourness... a delicoius strange enjoyable brew ... melanie didn’t like this brew, not as people friendly as some of this section.. you know what i mean....

Bottle at Monks....7/15/08.....Ruddy brown with an off-brown head....a musty cherry aroma mixed with a shellfish scent very similar to mussels...flavors are pretty similar.....a light body and a dirty cherry taste followed by mussels...its just odd...yet strangely drinkable...Rating made possible by Frank and Paul

Bottle. Musty cherry aroma. Ruby red color with moderate head. Sweet cherry evenly blended with musty sourness. Nice mixture of sweet and sour.

Draft at Seattle International Beer Fest; Nose of cherries and very light tartness; Rusty red with a huge beige head; flavor of sour cherries with a balancing light sweetness; finish slightly tart.

Nothing compared to Verhaeghe’s Duchesse de Bourgogne. It’s aroma is full of that acidic, sour cherry, and alchohol. Appearane is a dark reddish color, with a nice red brown head. It’s flavor is simply communion wine. This is far to vinegary for my taste. It’s probaly best served with a steak. Too bad I did not have one. It’s a bit too much alone. Not a session, and not a stand alone beverage.

Appearance: Dark redish brown. Bit cloudy. Almost no head. Aroma: Cherry, sour. Taste: Sour cherry. Quenching. Dries your mouth out. Info: 250ml bottle, 9/2-2007, 141/500