puzzl (2601), New York, New York, USA
| 3.6 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 5/5 | 7/10 | 3/5 | 14/20 | Jul 28, 2008 Bottled. Brilliant red pour with a pink fizzy head. There is a strong, sweet component in this with apple pie and light oak. Very lively body behind the sweetness makes this almost taste like a soda. There is a nice underlying sourness though that makes this a bit more quenching and balanced. An easy drinker that would be a good introduction to sour beer. And, unlike its cousin Duchesse de Bourgone, this one is actually good on tap as well as bottled. fordest (1954), Santee/San Diego, California, USA
| 3.9 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 3/5 | 8/10 | 3/5 | 17/20 | Jul 28, 2008 Sampled at the Stone Sour Fest. More sweet than sour, but some tartness really came through. Lots and lots of cherry on the aromas and the flavors. Cherry to the end. I mean it. Really. Pretty tasty. Especially if you like Cherry. Beaver (596), Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
| 4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 3/5 | 17/20 | Jul 26, 2008 11.2 oz bottle, best by 8/14/09. Pours a clear deep red with a fizzy rose head that retains well and leaves some big bubbled lacing.
The aroma is acidic and tart cherries, wood, yeast and some sweet candy sugar.
The flavor is sweet acidic cherries with a strong tart sour tang to it, a bit of funky yeast and wood show up as well. The mouthfeel is medium bodied and syrupy with a bit of sharp carbonation.
Overall, a fun sour ale - one of the better ones I’ve had. The sweetness and tartness are a bit strong, but I liked this quite a bit. Homebrewerguy (284), Oil City, Pennsylvania, USA
| 3.4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 5/10 | 4/5 | 6/10 | 4/5 | 15/20 | Jul 25, 2008 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 padrefan98 (788), (San Diego) Santee, California, USA
| 3.6 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 3/5 | 7/10 | 3/5 | 16/20 | Jul 22, 2008 Sampled at the Second Anual Stone Sour Festival on 7/20/2008. One of a few bottles I tried. A pretty decent sour ale. SudsMcDuff (1691), was CapeTown,SA-now Houston, Texas, USA
| 4.1 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 9/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 16/20 | Jul 20, 2008 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.... Funknmilla (593), Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, USA
| 2.9 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 5/10 | 3/5 | 6/10 | 3/5 | 12/20 | Jul 17, 2008 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 shrubber85 (2878), Wallhalben, Germany
| 3.8 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 15/20 | Jul 8, 2008 Bottle. Musty cherry aroma. Ruby red color with moderate head. Sweet cherry evenly blended with musty sourness. Nice mixture of sweet and sour.
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